Emphasis added. I hope you have a good editor. 
They’re fucking them right now?
He meant to say they *be *fucking them.
Yep. Sometimes it yella.
Who are you calling a “ho”?! :dubious: Lift the veils of your closed-mindedness!
Very risky how?
I have worked and schooled with white people my entire life. Most don’t say word-one about race, but in my experience, the ones that do tend to be very unafraid about it. Sometimes they say dumb-ass, offensive things. But the worse that has happened to them is they are met with an awkward silence or eye-rolls. Is that really so bad?
I don’t know where this fear comes from. It seems to be totally self-imposed from where I’m sitting.
Lucky bastards.
Well, are you talking about saying bigoted things but it should be ok because they’re only a little bigoted, or saying things without worrying about how they sound and getting blindsided when someone takes offense, or saying things you have actual reason to believe are inoffensive[li] and triggering Pavlovian offendedness?[/li]
Because I can’t find myself getting worked up about the first, or really the second.
[*]Where the reason isn’t “yabbut Those People really are like that!”
Ha! YES!
I don’t get the OP - risky, how?
For a different perspective: I came of age in the UK in the late 1970s. Reggae was new and exciting, and so was the whole reality of black culture. I had black friends and went to reggae clubs (I’m white) without really giving much thought to the dynamics. It was what it was. At the time I didn’t much care - I loved reggae music (a new thing back them), so, duh, I’d go to reggae clubs or venues with friends, race seriously irrelevant, and have a good time.
Then I moved to the US and all of a sudden race was with a capital “R”, you had to be careful about what you said or how you said it depending on the company, and the color of someone’s skin suddenly became a minefield.
I remember back then writing to friends about how wierd all of this was. America was great, but such a fucking touchy country, I said, people are offended so easily! Then I spent a decade or so tip-toeing around the whole idea that someone I knew might have a different melatonin content than I did and how awful it would be to say something inappropriate, like that would be a total soul-killer. I’m lucky in that I have some good non-white friends who are loosey-goosey and honesand give me good feedback… Really, it is difficult sometimes to be honest about race when you are not a “minority” but are trying to hit the right notes without being either a sycophant or an asshole.
Eventually I got back to “who gives a fuck” and relaxed and am now able to, I hope, be as race-neutral as possible. Yes, people’s skin is different colors. Yes, so what. It’s class and culture and character, not skin color, that matters.
You don’t seem to have gotten the point at all.
Thank you!
Years (too damn many!) ago, when I first went to college, I showed up at my assigned dorm room to meet my new roommate. He was black. I was a white kid from an all-white small town, and had never known a black person in my life. But I was determined to make the best go I could of being a good roommate, no matter what.
Meanwhile, he applied for a room swap, so he could room with another black guy. (I ended up with a Lebanese guy. We got along great!)
Grin! I could sure use one!
(Why is it, in spelling, it isn’t so much the complicated words that get ya – psychoanalysis, cryptography, etc. – but the little words like or, of, is, in, it, etc.?)
Awesome OP/name combination. Well played sir!
If you find that wherever you go, people keep calling you out for saying racist things, maybe you should consider the distinct possibility that you are, in fact, saying racist things and see how it goes from there. You’re welcome! 
Well, I guess not. Help me out? What was the point? Sorry if I am just being dense in reading this as offensive.
Some people in this thread are being less serious than others.
I doubt that race has anything to do with it, but I could be mistaken.
Is there a specific incident that inspired this thread? If so, care to relate it to us?
Am I glad I’m not modding this place anymore!
Is this anything like what some conservative Congressmen believe about rape, that if it is a “genuine rape,” the woman can’t get pregnant?