Judy is a racist! (Page 2 of 3)

*gives Gothic a wierd look*

Why is it that all the other racist people have to make me look bad by being ignorant, uneducated, and Under the age of 13?

In fact they did......

taken from http://www.vernonjohns.org/vernjohns/sthfrnkl.html

In addition to providing the basis for a national culture, laissez-faire capitalism complemented the American racist system. Benjamin Franklin was, as we all are, a prisoner of his own times. And among the important ideas of his times were the underlying racial fears of Americans. If we can show that in the great man's 033 works there was a subtle racism, this will illustrate how the American middle class of colonial days was very worried by the black caste. We do so in the overall context of Franklin's concern about the increasing number of German immigrants.

The early history of the colonies reveals a population dominated by the English. There were certainly other groups, the Scots, Welsh, and Irish, the Dutch, Swedes, and Finns, the French, Germans, Swiss, and Jews, but the English predominated. This began to change in the eighteenth century. Hofstadter (1971) writes that by the time of the revolution half the population south of New England was non-English. The Germans and Scots-Irish came between 1710 and 1740, and more Scots-Irish and Scots came in large numbers from the 1760s to the outbreak of the revolution.

This immigration stirred some nativist reactions. Not surprisingly, the greatest concern with immigration was in Pennsylvania which had, on the eve of the revolution, about one-third German in its population. Franklin wanted the Germans in western Pennsylvania to be better distributed in the nation and to mix more with the English. He worried that the new German immigrants would threaten the English language and English liberties, and so he insisted on Anglo-conformity as the model of immigration, demanding that the new immigrants conform to English ways.

Wright (1986:83) quotes the great philosopher and inventor as saying, "Why should the Palatine boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements and, by herding together, establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them?"

Franklin's ideas were standard for the day; in fact, standard for any day in the United States (see Gordon 1964:89-91). Worries about immigration were shared by many of the founding fathers (see Gordon 1964). George Washington did not want to encourage immigration and certainly did not want to see concentrated geographic settlement of any one group because he thought this would lead to the preservation of separate values. Even the liberal Thomas Jefferson worried about the impact on American liberty of the influx of immigrants from countries dominated by absolute monarchies.

Although immigration was a number one worry with Franklin, it is illuminating to see how he couched his arguments to oppose it, for he phrased them in terms of skin color. That racism was very much on the mind of this foremost American spokesman for the capitalist ethic is clearly shown by his concern that America could be swamped by nonwhites (see Wright 1986:82-83). Franklin opposed the Quaker pacifism that he felt put at risk the people of the Pennsylvania frontier. In the face of what he regarded as the unshakeable obstinacy of the Quakers on this matter, plus the selfishness of the merchant class, he wrote that the common people of Pennsylvania would have to set up their own voluntary defense associations. In a pamphlet entitled Plain Truth, published in 1747, he went out of his way to assuage the fears of the pacifists that armed groups would be a threat to the social order. Rather, he noted (quoted by Wright 033 1986:78) that the real threat to the society came not from these troops but from "licentious privateers": "your persons, fortunes, wives, and daughters, shall be subject to the wanton and unbridled rage, rapine, and lust of Negroes, mulattos and others, the vilest and most abandoned of mankind." Thus did Franklin use race explicitly as a bogeyman in his arguments. Continuing his argument, Franklin wrote that the non-English immigrants were not "purely white." He maintained that the Germans, Russians, and Swedes were of a swarthy complexion. Furthermore, only the Saxons and the English constituted the principal body of white people on the face of the earth. This concern with skin color caused him to ask (quoted in Wright 1986:83): "Why increase the sons of Africa by planting them in America, where we have so fair an opportunity, by excluding all blacks and tawnys, of increasing the lovely white and red?"

This concern with the importation of blacks was partly based on the belief in the racial inferiority of blacks. In 1758 an English philanthropic society established a school for blacks in Philadelphia. In 1763 Franklin visited the school and remarked (cited in Zilversmit 1967:26-27) that the experience gave him "a higher opinion of the Natural Capacities of the black Race." Obviously, Franklin had a low opinion of the natural intelligence of blacks.

pfft nor am I

Bryce, you're making fun of your self in your topic, it shows your level of intelligence.

I <3 Juza

lmao

Racism was typical back then due to the fear that minorities would over run the country. (far from realistic)
Racism is only typical today to those who fear a race who's cultures they do not understand and appreciate. (ignorant)

The word nigger refers to an ignorant person.

Therefore; the only "niggers" in the world today are racists.

I personally only use the term "nigga" as a term of endearmeant refering to a good friend, but I'm half black. lmao

no being racist isnt just thinking that your race is superior, because not everyone who makes racists statements believes their race is superior;
they just make inappropriate comments about another person due to their race for instance:
Guatamalans are all short and fat
Does that mean im saying nobody who's black is short and or fat NO im just saying guatamalans are rofl.
Not to mention most racist remarks are opinions, because i see no proof that prooves one race is smarter than another, because we are all humans and have the same mental potential as one another; theres no one who's stronger than one another because we're all humans and compared to the other animals on this planet we're pussies to say the least; and as far as digging any deeper than that would just be ridiculous.
Im not saying youre racist and in fact didnt even imply that you were; because EVERYONE is racist from time to time; we're only human we cant help it. Im just saying extreme racism as in saying another race has no right to life or causing harm or intending harm to another race is simply ignorant.

Last edited by JuZa (March 25th, 2007 2:26 PM)

god .. big deal .. all that writting, why dont u guys write a book.. jesus christ ..

ps im not a racist, just an asshole      

I had a mother to teach me that. i dont watch MTV i watch BET; and i know there is never going to be the "utopian society" you mentioned; im from the projects and grew up with a lot harsher of a reality than JUST racism, i deal with it on a daily basis due to police officers.
^^^^^^^^
Settle down homeslice, the notion that all sorts of stupid exists in the world is obvious but c'mon now that is what makes life exciting, the facetious people, the strange lights - and of course teh beer and teh Faldon.

And plus, in Faldon i'm as white as my beautifully scrubbed walls sucka.

I would love for you to come to my city and be racist, then watch how fast you change your opinions about minorities when you're surrounded by them.

I just laugh at you homos because if i were as much losers as some of you people I'd be mad at the people who're better at sports and have bigger dicks than me too I guess

^^^
1. Could you make any worse of an impression of your city?
2. Classy, real classy.

Im from a shitty city wtf can i say? the people who live here are mostly people who're stuck here lol; if ihad a choice i'd move (which i am soon)

And the only class i care about is the E on my mercedes.

Call me an asshole, because I intend to be one

Last edited by JuZa (March 30th, 2007 12:52 PM)