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Racism: Your opinion.?

I have a question via Carlos Mencia.

"As long as you don't think that your race is superior to another race, you're not racist." Upon that, he said that making jokes of other races were okay, because the people weren't 'racist' (from his definition).

Opinions? What do you think?

Agree? Disagree? Indifferent?

Update:

Just to get this straight, in no way am I racist or support racism.

The quote was by Mencia, but that was not the point of my question.

* Do you agree with what he said, or not? *

Don't focus on the person who said it, focus on the subject at hand. Thanks.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    That actually makes alot of sense I agree. I hate specific people because of their character not because of their race, I dont think Im superior to anyone.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't know what some of these people are reading. First off, to Giselle where did it say Carlos Mencia wasn't mexican? Second, to Carla, she said he makes fun of other races, not his own, but feels it's okay because he is not a racist. My belief is that it depends on how his friends take it and what his comments are. But if someone makes racist jokes back at him, he better not complain.

  • 1 decade ago

    look just get over it, carlos mencia is not the first or the last person to make fun of other races. he even makes fun of his own, so what is the big deal.!!!??? his jokes might be crude but he is not racist, if he were he'd focus on every other race but his own.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    DAMN I MISSED HIM!! DAMN!

    I posted a pretty cool answer on some other question about racism and hate being like a bigh wheel or spiral that all races spin and now its VERY hard to stop

    P.s I think I'm gonna go to a make-a-T-Shirt shop and make a T shirt with an anti-racist slogan and see if people like it then I'll start a non profit organisation with anti-racist T shirts and an anti-racist community VIVA LA EQUALITY!!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I just watched the same skit...Where he went to the streets and got people to stereotype other races...

    Funny as hell....

    If we cant laugh at ourselves whats wrong with us?

    I am a Southern 'Hillbilly" and I love the whole "you might be a redneck" stuff...

    And yea Carlos Mencia just might be a racist...So what...He picks on EVERYONE!!!!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Mencia is an idiot. Attributing characteristics to an individual based on the color of their skin is racism. Mencia is racist but no one will ever call him on it because he's a part a 'minority' race.

  • 1 decade ago

    Thank goodness Carlos Mencia isn't mexican.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I would help you on this one but it's not something that I wish to entertain.

    Remember Acts 10: 34 - 35..."God is not partial for any man from any nation WHO WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS is ACCEPTABLE to Him"...

    Why not you, race baiter?

  • 1 decade ago

    Racism is hate. Hate in any form is poison. No one deserves to be talked about or made fun of because of the color of their skin. They didn't have a choice in the matter before they were born. Love covers hate. Love sees no color. Love has no limits and love is not blind. Love is the greatest commandment of them all.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think making jokes of other races, can be funny, as long as its done in good taste.

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