For the Whites and others who feel put upon, try considering this: if a man claimed that he’s not to blame for being a man, and that he intends no harm, he would rightly be dismissed for stating an irrelevancy. The point is, men profit simply by being men.

The issue in a Racist society is profit. Individual intent and circumstance have nothing to do with profit.

The contemporary financial crisis is way beyond a money problem: it’s a huge political opportunity for the global working class to take advantage of the wealthy ruling class’ weakness. One thing is for sure: the post-Vietnam War global political economy crafted and maintained by the Godfather of bosses, the USA, is dead, and the ruling classes of all nations will not recover from this deathblow.

These are the beginings of the best political movements since the 60s and 70s.

Our time has finally arrived where we can hash out democratic processes that profit the many, not the few. Wealth can and will be spread, not accumulated.
Racism will be revealed as an issue of profit, not merely as an issue of laying blame to particular groups that profit the most from racism.

A good example of the social utility of racism is the experience of white southerner job-seekers versus white mid-western job seekers migrating to California in the 1930s Depression; Southerners were attacked and villified beyond anything their Mid-West counterparts experienced.

For us here in the US, how about a universal plan to pay caregivers for their in-home care of minors, and non-minors? What about reparations for Blacks? Abolishing the insurance industry and having a single-payer health care industry?

I believe that part of the reason why Ms. Lyde made the “Wall Of Shame” is her frustration with the face that she couldn’t get a date. I hope she realized that her sex life isn’t going to improve as a result of making the “Wall of Shame”.

This sounds like the kind of thing that people say about Asian American men who have legitimate complaints about feeling ignored and undervalued.

Have you thought perhaps the Wall of Shame had to do with racial politics in the United States and not about being unable to get a date?

I see it all the time on campus: black women who are in environments with lots of attractive, smart, super ambitious black men who then declare to their friends loudly (wish I were exaggerating) ‘they aren’t tall enough?”

Does that mean that on average, a BM dating a non-black woman would be shorter than a BM that is with a BW (at your typical university campus)?

*sigh* You are arguing a point I didn’t make. I never said I support hypocrisy. Obviously, if they reject BMs, then BFs should not be complaining when it happens to them.

But that does not justify the same behavior from BMs to reject BFs out of hand just because it’s happened to them before. And, as nightshade said, to demand that all BFs pay the price for the actions of a few is immature and full of self-pity.

Again, “well they did it first” never works. I bet your parents didn’t fall for it when you did it with your siblings as kids, right? And now, it’s not just one or two others you’re demanding be blamed first. It’s an entire half of your ethnic population. Good luck with that.

I love how you assume that I disregarded what you had to say because you went to an Ivy for grad school. News flash: so did I. So did my black male roommate. Does this make my opinion any better now?

You just don’t get the anger and frustration black women and Asian men feel because you’re in a position of privilege. Get over yourself. What they are feeling isn’t a personal attack on you.