<p>Man, I’m sick of white folks using the excuse that the Irish, German, Dutch, Swedish etc. faced hardships when they first got to America (or Canada). </p>
<p>Like NBAChris already stated, those facts can be hidden or subdued (conciously or not) after a couple of generations. Children will lose their accents, girls may marry and change their last names, the society might adjust and think “Hey, these Irish aren’t so bad, at least they still white!”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not everyone has that same luxury. Shaniqua Johnson can name her son Michael, make sure he straightens his hair and take rap music away from him and there will still be a large segement of the population that will just look at as a black man first. Race is not an issue because whiney minorities thrive off welfare and like to nitpick. It’s an issue because OTHER people make it an issue. </p>
<p>Do you think if Mr. Lee Hong names his next child Xavier Hong, make sure he plays football, listens to country music, wears jeans and drives a Chevy that Xavier is gonna be seen as a good ol’boy? </p>
<p>And don’t even try that crap with the “See, look at this house negro here! He’s fine with people trampling on his culture so by extension, so should you!” Please! There are literally BILLIONS of people in the world who are non-white and you holding up some self hating fool is supposed to legitimize the actions of a bunch of ignorant clods?</p>
<p>Edit: Apologies to any people I might have offended by stirring up the pot. If you like, I’ll go back and continue to study Calculus, computer programming and eating dogmeat now.</p>