# Hello. I am a racist. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590 "2010-08-18T00:25:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/721 "2010-08-29T05:02:33Z")
I suppose he would prefer some classical music. You know. The kind the blacks don’t like. Kathleen Battle would be a good start. [I think this link goes to one.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8LFUDwZhvQ&NR=1). Do turn up the volume. She tends to me shy. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/722 "2010-08-29T05:04:09Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Hmm, too bad. This was the closest thing to an honest debate on race that we’ve had around here in a long time. just as long as it isn’t your racist tendencies towards the aboriginal peoples of North America, I’m sure this would be a great debate for racism and racist stereotypes. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/723 "2010-08-29T08:00:33Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I have long been aware of the obsession racists have with black men’s sex lives. Makes you start to wonder if the homophobe = secretly gay thing has a corollary. That racists are secretly black? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/724 "2010-08-30T05:44:18Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I must admit “coalburner” is a new one for me, and I thought I’d heard them all. Must be because we simply didn’t have coal back in West Texas. A coal burner is not a black person, it’s a white woman who sleeps with black men. (Although my mother dated black men exclusively for the rest of her life after she and my father split up, that isn’t why I know this. It’s because my first serious relationship was with a man who had spent a decade in Arizona State Penetentiary, and had developed a serious case of racism - he introduced me to the term.) And my unscientific observation is that the vast, vast majority of the very worst and most unrepentent racists are uneducated, frequently fundamentally unintelligent, and very often criminal. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/725 "2010-08-30T05:50:06Z")
Which makes a lot of sense once you understand what drives racism, which is self-loathing. " Well, I suck so bad I need to believe someone sucks worst than I do in order to get through the day." ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/726 "2010-08-30T13:30:49Z")
> [@umop\_ap\_sdn](#): > > > [@jsgoddess](#): > > > > I have long been aware of the obsession racists have with black men’s sex lives. Makes you start to wonder if the homophobe = secretly gay thing has a corollary. > > That racists are secretly black? Well, there are probably some who would qualify, under their own thinking. But I was more thinking that they feel sexual attraction to black people, so they demonize the objects of their attraction. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/727 "2010-08-30T14:35:06Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > But I was more thinking that they feel sexual attraction to black people, so they demonize the objects of their attraction. Ten bucks says he retconned the story, and that it was actually he that played with her hair and was loudly rebuffed. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/728 "2010-08-30T14:46:35Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > My name is Ariovistus, and I am what most of the posters here would call a ‘racist’ (though that is not how I think of myself). What word would you prefer? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/729 "2010-08-30T15:30:50Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Ten bucks says he retconned the story, and that it was actually he that played with her hair and was loudly rebuffed. Not taking that bet. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/730 "2010-08-30T17:54:27Z")
Ten bucks says the story was fictitious altogether. ---
**Author:** ![pyromyte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@pyromyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyromyte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/731 "2010-08-30T20:39:20Z")
Oh Geez, please don’t identify this guy with Kentucky or the University of… I hate the crap I get being from Kentucky, and now I run into this guy. Crap! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/732 "2010-08-31T04:01:21Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > > > I must admit “coalburner” is a new one for me, and I thought I’d heard them all. Must be because we simply didn’t have coal back in West Texas. > > A coal burner is not a black person, it’s a white woman who sleeps with black men. > (Although my mother dated black men exclusively for the rest of her life after she and my father split up, that isn’t why I know this. It’s because my first serious relationship was with a man who had spent a decade in Arizona State Penetentiary, and had developed a serious case of racism - he introduced me to the term.) > > And my unscientific observation is that the vast, vast majority of the very worst and most unrepentent racists are uneducated, frequently fundamentally unintelligent, and very often criminal. I see. Thanks! Always good to keep these terms straight. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/733 "2010-09-01T16:50:07Z")
Never mind. I didn’t realize there were still 4 pages to read on this thread when I made my comment, and I’m sure someone else has already said it by now. I hate being a Johnny Comelately. ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/734 "2010-09-01T17:35:57Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > (One guy was saying he was horrified when he found out that his wife turned out to be biracial – he didn’t know until they had a kid, and their son turned out looking black, and now he was totally disgusted by his own family.) > > ☹ Reading that I like to believe the truth is his wife had an affair with a black man and got pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/735 "2010-09-02T11:21:08Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > (One guy was saying he was horrified when he found out that his wife turned out to be biracial – he didn’t know until they had a kid, and their son turned out looking black, and now he was totally disgusted by his own family.) > > ☹ And I’m betting that his kids were pretty light-skinned, if he couldn’t tell his wife was black (biracial). And yet he’s still disgusted. What a stupid, horrible person. I feel sorry for the kids but cannot muster much sympathy for the wife. I’m sure she knew how racist her husband was (or at least sensed he wasn’t all “we all the world” about them) before getting married. Even if she were self-hating, there’s no acceptable reason why you should get married to someone who hates people of your ethnic background. First of all, it’s dangerous for you. And secondly, it can dangerous for the children you might have, because not only will they have a monsterous pig for a father, but I’m sure his side of the family won’t be all-embracing either. Or maybe the guy is just a liar about the whole thing. I prefer to think that’s the case. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/736 "2010-09-04T23:15:56Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > > [@umop\_ap\_sdn](#): > > > > That racists are secretly black? > > Well, there are probably some who would qualify, under their own thinking. > > But I was more thinking that they feel sexual attraction to black people, so they demonize the objects of their attraction. I couldn’t resist making the joke. 😃 But that’s interesting about the attraction; I hadn’t considered that angle. > [@Stoid](#): > > And my unscientific observation is that the vast, vast majority of the very worst and most unrepentent racists are uneducated, frequently fundamentally unintelligent, and very often criminal. Incidentally, the racist stereotypes I’ve heard about black people are claims that they are uneducated, unintelligent, and criminal. Which backs up your post about racists being self-loathing. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/737 "2010-10-05T12:08:07Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Your University Of Kentucky Wildcats is pretty much an all black team. Do you yearn for the years of Adolph Rupp the Nazi? > > I am a fan of the team, by the way. Why can’t I post their picture? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/738 "2010-10-05T14:58:42Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > I’ll let you in on a secret… shhhh. > > I’ve received PM’s from folks who feel like me… there are (gasp) people on this board who think like I do!! And you don’t know who they are!! > > And I’ll never tell… it’ll be more fun watching you lot go around in circles accusing each other.. Wow, that phrasing looks familiar. I’d’a sworn I saw an exact or near-exact duplicate a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/739 "2010-10-05T17:53:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > [@Ariovistus](#): > > > > I’ll let you in on a secret… shhhh. > > > > I’ve received PM’s from folks who feel like me… there are (gasp) people on this board who think like I do!! And you don’t know who they are!! > > > > And I’ll never tell… it’ll be more fun watching you lot go around in circles accusing each other.. > > Wow, that phrasing looks familiar. I’d’a sworn I saw an exact or near-exact duplicate a few years back. My favorite bit was the part where it doesn’t happen and we just laugh at him. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/740 "2010-10-05T17:56:40Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > > Wow, that phrasing looks familiar. I’d’a sworn I saw an exact or near-exact duplicate a few years back. > > My favorite bit was the part where it doesn’t happen and we just laugh at him. What a coincidence. I’ve gotten an email from a racialist insider spilling their divide-and-conquer strategy and admitting that they encourage this sort of fake-traitor strategy. A sample message board post is even included looking strangely like this one. :::Sits back, awaits accusations:::: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590.md?page=38)