Millange's Blog

I understand your blog, but is there really a need for it here? White bloggers discussing anti black issues are the vast minority on this site. why would you feel the need to post this. There are plenty of black issues blogs that you could have just added a comment to.

Also, one might ask, what if a white person posted a blog 'I'm white and I'm proud(!)?" I don't have a problem with that as long as it isn't mean't as some white supremacy(sp?) sentiment. I think we all should have self-pride. I have eight bi-racial nieces and nephews. They are taught to be proud of all of their heritage and so it should be for all of us.

SAY IT LOUD!

Priveye: huh?
Are you talking about slavery? Although it has nothing to do with my blog, I will try to answer your question. Beginning with, I can't speak for blacks as a whole. But, I do know that some blacks still have resentment toward white people deeply embedded in them as you do in reverse. As for the why, I don't know. Pain, whether real or imagined is relative. I hope for future acceptance on both parts which may some day lead to harmony, if not peace.

Millange, I truly believe that you are a good person who is indeed striving for racial harmony. Perhaps you need to blog here more often. I think whites that have a stereotypical dislike for blacks. (like myself) were not taught these things from childhood. I think people like me (us) at some point were immersed in a black environment and did not like what they saw. This gets taken back to our neighborhoods and daily life.

Millange.....I totally agree that you can't change the world. There are far too many people that don't have the moral courage to speak out and not worry what others say.

Thanks for your comments. My argument with many on these blogs has been their tendency to want to group all black people and put them into the same category as the ones they dislike because most of their interaction with them has been either from some sort of criminal activity that was perpetrated against them or they were witness to in person or saw on the evening news. The black people that I know and love go to work each day, pay their bills, are not on welfare, have never been to jail, are educated and speak the language clearly and well. Conversely, I know whites (and have seen them as well on TV) who break the law, dont pay bills and couldnt speak or write a proper sentence if their lives depended on it. For example, I work with one who is the single mother of 5 (4 different fathers) and barely made her way out of high school. By the same token, I have a friend from junior high school who is one of the best friends I ever had, and she is white. Be that as it may, neither of them defines or clouds my INDIVIDUAL perspective of white people and never will. I just wish that some of the whites on these blogs would give blacks that same perspective and vice versa. Too many times I have seem references made of the worst kind of behavior preceded by the words "black people" or "white people." We dont all do the same things, and therefore all should not be held accountable for the entire race. I have likewise taught my children to judge people individually, and can happily say that their friends are represented by all races and I am happy for it. Maybe their generation

Priveye, I can answer your question. When you face racism in this day of time, (it could be someone following you in a store because they think you are stealing,etc) it reminds people from when it started. Why got back from when it started? Due to it never ending. This doesn't speak for everyone.

Great blog Millange!!!

He immediately ran up to the counter and whispered in my ear that I needed to check the bill against the counterfeit lists (at that time the bills werent made so that you could check the watermarks like they are now, you had a list to check them against). I looked at him, checked the list and he paid for the shoes and left. I went to the manager and asked him why he saw fit to have me check THAT particular customer's bill, and he didnt have a plausible answer. When I told him that the customer was my BROTHER, he fell all over himself trying to make apologies. I simply told him that I would appreciate him treating all customers in the same manner and went back to my work. It's all in how you handle it. BTW, this was my first job out of college in 1979 so its not a new story, but its not an old one either. The "following us around thing" happens even now. I have been in the store with my 74 y/o Mom and 84 y/o Dad and had it happen. Likewise, in that same store, the same manager was busy following a couple of black kids around the store while a group of white kids were stealing golf balls (it was a sporting goods store). The black kids tried on and PURCHASED the shoes wanted. You dont have to LOOK for it, it happens, but again...its all in how you handle it that speaks to who you are.