Re: Interesting Social Experiment Conducted After Ottawa, Canada Shooting
Peace diwana
I saw the above and I don’t want to respond to it … but I shall … I did indeed say the stats approach is wrong … It is wrong because it forces the view of people ‘to be profiled’ by race … So I agree with you … I said it is not racist in the sense that it is done by them in the hope of preventing crime by predicting patterns … It is just a flawed mechanism in that respect and creates racism.
I’m a medium brown colour …
Yes that white girl is probably still racist, my point is not that I set out to do something to change her mind … I didn’t, I just continued to be nice to her … My statement of her seeing me with a white dude was probably only one big factor. I have been through a lot in my time. I could tell you but I will not bother … Because this is just an Internet forum … Any way, my point is her familiarity with me gave her a way to see me and judge me as an individual … I am not afraid of racist behaviour … I am not assimilating, I do not dress like them, act like them, I’m not a coconut … Brown on the outside and white on the inside … I have a beard and I go to the masjid. The person I pick up works around my prayer schedule … I don’t take petrol money off him, but he feels obliged to do things and treats me to a meal or a gift cards for supermarket. Even he is racist … If you speak to him you will see it, but he respects me. Racism is baggage … It is their ignorance … It used to scare me … But not now, Alhumdulillah.
I am asking people not to succumb to racism by behaving back in a racist way. I used to care about monetary disparity … But not anymore … This is very different to those desis who think of whites as superior and feel they are like slaves to them … I’m not like that … I tell them how it is … I try to take good from all societies and leave the bad … And I regularly tell them that racism has never been removed except in Islam.
I think different people have different levels of it … My white friends who are not racist at all are the Muslim ones … Converts. That is not to say all converts are not racist. By those who I choose as my close friends are not racist at all … Because our whole outlook in life is based on another world-view.