Originally Posted by infidel

anyone remember that story of the new york rap radio station making joke song of the big tsunami that hit last year using derrogatory comments like 'chinks getting washed away by the floods' and other stuff like that.

then the hurricane hits in new orleans with a big black population. what if an asian radio station makes a joke song about the incident in new orleans using words like '******s' got washed away, should have seen it coming.

point is, racism is alive and going strong, and will continue to go on as long as people from different regions of the earth identify themselves under kingdoms of different kings on this fleeting planet we call earth. it's so sad to see. only one man is ever capable of being a savior and bringing unification among all men and women.

Originally Posted by Nightshade

See thats what it boils down to really. Racism will never be eliminated people will always be narrow minded regarding people of any race different than their own.

Since this is an unfortunate fact of life, it can be eliminated from the work environment. Last thing I wanna do is go to work and hear someone using any racist term regardless of how it is meant.

I am not going to lie I have probably used a lot more derogatory terms than I care to list. I am not racist though and admittedly they were used in ignorance. That is al it is in the end is ignorance and xenophobia, and the more you can isolate and make a person or race to be less human the easier it is to hate a group, these terms help to accomplish this and it works a little bit at a time.

If a person hears the term enough then when it comes down to it you can simply say, "oh it's ok it's just one of those (insert racist term) they don't count".

Originally Posted by Tark

got me wrong dude... i meant to say to puffy WTF

Originally Posted by TaekOne

wow i go away to take a piss test for work thinking this thread was going nowhere after LTs response and its already on page 3.

let me clarify WHY i started w/ that comment...

ive only been here for about half a year. ive made friends, but not the ones that made the comment and laughed. theyre actually african american, but that shouldnt matter. im more surprised b/c it was said in a PROfessional workplace, not in HS, college, in a bar or w/ just friends. plus i was taken aback b/c they know who i am and that im korean and that im in the next cube down. so it just made me wonder 'hey, do they realize that theyre at work?'. i dont care that they made the joke cuz i have tough skin. like a lot of you guys said, youve been teased or had crap happen to you regardless of who you are. i just learned to roll w/ the punches.

so yeah, thats why it surprised me, and im thinkin that if i were anyone else, like nightshade said i couldve gone to my supervisor and caused a ruckus. on THEIR behalf i just hope they watch themselves or someone else might make things difficult for them.