Does anybody hate their own race?

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hating your own race is as pointless as hating other people for theirs. If I'm gonna hate someone, it's gonna be for something they DID, not for something they have no control over ( like race, gender or nationality). Why should I feel ashamed about being woman or white? I came out that way. I didn't get to choose it from some book or anything like wallpaper. I refuse to be ashamed of that--- now, if I had DONE some act that was not nice, such as cheat on a test or dent someone's car then I might feel shameful because I DID something mean ( actions that are controllable).
If someone steals my car, I couldn't give a s**t if it were a black man, a Jewish woman or a one-legged Pakistani transvestite--- my car would be gone and I would be very angry at that one person... not an entire race or whatever. If a white woman were to steal my car, should I hate all white women ( including myself?)? NO. I'm pissed because my ride is gone and one person did it.

Yes, the human one.

From everything I'd read and other parents I've met, the African American community is light years behind when it comes to Asperger and Autism awareness. Many of these kids don't have any support or protection if they're living within a Black community. Get a copy of this season's "Spectrum Magazine," and turn to page 26. It is of a Black mother's account of raising three Autistic kids. She says, "African-Americans often take questions about autism as offense. They act like it's a plague." This is the issue with Jenny McCarthy on the cover. My wife has a copy.

Anyway, I've been called a racist before because I dislike America's policy on illegal and legal immigration. I'm a middle-aged, White, Conservative and my position isn't going to be changed anytime soon. However, it doesn't mean I hate entire cultures and ethnicities of people just because I feel our policies are backwards and we don't make other countries or immigrants themselves be self-sufficient and take responsibility for being here without our tax dollars. I just dislike the policies, not the people.

I think it's so important that we teach our Asperger and Autistic kids from a young age not to hate. It's so important because it's hard for them to understand many things. They need to learn respect for people who are different. I learned it. I even learned to respect things I don't understand like homosexuality, transgender and the like. I don't understand it and probably never will, but I believe they have the right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness and an existence without fear of being discriminated against or being victims of hate crimes. At the end of the day, we are all human and no one human is more superior than another.

Lol. I used think of cats in terms of race even though they're not human.

If you mean certain members of the human race, then yes. I dislike irresponsible people who don't take care of their pets and their children, and show a general disrespect for their familes, yet treat random strangers as if they were long-lost friends. I dislike certain behaviors such as lying, cheating and general irresponsiblity, but I don't dislike any specific race.

I don't HATE anything, but I do feel ashamed of being Autistic sometimes. I can't direct my anger at anybody else because they can't help it, and I understand the pain they go through (I just don't understand this for me because of my low self esteem)

I've actually been to Poughkeepsie, many years ago, and I didn't like it much but I think there are many towns like it that people try to leave once they get to your age. You're lucky you're so close to NYC.

If you don't like to travel (some aspies don't) maybe check out the Poughkeepsie Public Library. I did and I found one event on March 29 about Chinua Achebe. You're college age, you might enjoy it. Google it if you don't know who he is.

About the gangsta stuff, it's fronted by and blamed on African Americans but it's actually manufactured by white corporate culture and consumed by white and black people equally. I've loved hiphop for almost twenty years and it's never been about acting like a fool.

Whatever you do, nip that self-image problem in the bud, there'll be enough people putting you down and they don't need a helping hand.

[quote="oscuria"]Yes, but I wouldn't call them races. Nationalities, ethnicities, etc.

Yes, in the nineteenth century people talked about "the Irish race" or "the German race". Before long talking about race to mean skin colour, like people do today, will sound just as pointless.

Yeah, I'm pretty much a misanthrope. I don't discriminate; I hate everyone.

Question: Have you considered talking to someone (a Psyche or something) about this issue?. It seems to me it's hard enough to go through life with Aspergers, but when you add self-hatred and an identity crises in the mix, that seems like a heavy burden for such a young person. You're only 19 years old with your entire life ahead of you. It may not hurt to have someone help you sort through these feelings because hate eats up the soul and never does anything good for anybody's life. In my opinion.

As others have said, I think hating your own race is just as bad as hating another.

I don't believe in races, there's no biological proof of racial differentiation in the human species.

I do despise my people, since they are a bunch of ret*ds that waste time on irrelevant fights, though.

Uncle Ruckus tells how he feels about race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmLk7KupBs

I assume that if I were an intelligent snail I would be unsatisfied with snail behavior but since I'm human I find it a shame that humans are behaving in a way to make Earth uninhabitable to a good many present species including the human. Some species will, in all probability, survive and mutate into more ingenious forms but it is doubtful that intelligence on human level will return(if it ever does) for a few hundred million years or so. It's a pity but I don't hate anybody for this. Humans do have the potential to do better and there is a very slight chance the species may squeak through but by the way humans behave currently it's beginning to look unlikely. Anyway, it will be a couple of billions of years before the Sun expands and swallows Earth and there still is a bit of time for more interesting species to evolve.

To tell the truth I hate my race,well atleast half of it. I'm half black half Japanese and at my school I am always discriminated. Either called n****r kid, tar baby, Chinese, squinty eyed fag. I am very proud to be half Japanese because the Japanese have contributed to many things and inventions. One big issue I have about being half black is the constant use of the word "n****r" it's so stupid and pointless. It makes me wonder if half the actual "ignorant" black people that go around ranting that word knows what it means. . Another thing that ticks me off is when I try to hang around other black people they will say i'm not "gangsta" enough, and when I try to hang around the white population they look at me as a hideous monstrosity. I hate my life I swear to Siddhartha.

The interesting thing is that that N word, and most others used to refer to native-africans or whatever real valid non location specific term you can use REALLY just means BLACK!! !! It is a shame that they have such a hatred for a term that started out kind of harmless. The major classification of asians and whites, in some cases, sounds pretty derogatory, even though they are based on the place of earliest discovery. It IS ironic though that they, after declaring it to be SO bad, actually spread it around their own culture almost as if it is a GOOD word. I can't help but think that some of them have a great laugh about it.

It is also a shame that some practically HARASS people like blackcat. You would think they would be HAPPY! And then they accuse her of "acting white"!

The interesting thing is that there is NOT a white, black, or asian in the sense they mean it. Some blacks have been known to KILL other blacks even in africa when left to their own.(BTW Sorry to use black, but colored is deemed more offensive and less appropriate, and any reference to original or current location is unclear.) Whites have enslaved whites just as blacks have enslaved blacks. And whites have even had hatred of other white ethnic groups. Of course, the asians have done all that as well.