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I am white. How do I know if I am a "typical white person"?

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These answers are so great, I can't pick a best answer. Thanks ya'll.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Ask a black person. Blacks have the authority to tell us who and what we are, whether we're good or bad or racist or decent or right or wrong. Only a black person can tell you who you really are. Only blacks are right. And they are never wrong, even when they're wrong, because they have a fan base that says so, and because they can wail holy Jesus louder than we can.

    Whites have no authority to say anything about themselves, because some of them a couple hundred years ago did some bad things, and hence all their offspring forever, and even those who are in no way their offspring but who happen to be the same color, must be judged not based upon their character but based on the color of their skin, all these likewise lost all authority to speak about racial issues. Whites can now only sit passively by while taunted by others for what happened before we were born. That is our fate.

  • 1 decade ago

    The same way I found out, dance in front of a mirror, you'll have your answer in less than 5 minutes (Yes, I am a typical white lol)

  • 1 decade ago

    I recommend taking a walk in any depressed, high crime, urban ghetto area at about 1am. Then you'll know if you're a typical white person or something special. Do you have a bullet proof vest?

  • 1 decade ago

    If a colored person said that of you it usually means that you're a rascist even for disagreeing with them on very minor issues. For example, if you don't like Obama for any reason whatsoever, you're a typical "white" person. I think its just an inferiority problem with most colored people.

    Source(s): Hey, why the thumbs down ? Why can't people face the truth ? Every one of us is racist inclined to some degree and if you are not a racist then I must congratulate you for being one of the rarest animal on this planet.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There is no typical white person. It is said that the typical would be a protestant, educated and well to do, but that does not stick anymore. All I know is that we should all be the same and forget about stereotypes.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, if you're a white person who is not a racist, you are the "exception to the rule," at least according to Barack Hussein Obama.

    Racism has nothing to do with any of the white people I know -- so I guess, at least according to Obama, these people are freaks.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    According to Obama, you're a "typical white" if you're afriad of black men on the street. That would either make us all delusional, or actually users of inductive logic.

    Obama supporters: "Inductive logic" is an empirical process of moving from particulars to general conclusions. Most empirical sciences are based on induction. Empirical means derived from observation or experiment

  • 1 decade ago

    You are a typical white person for wanting to 'stir' things up that would reflect badly on people who would answer your question, which they shouldn't.

    Hey, wait ... did I just?

    Where's Al Sharpton when you want to confess?

  • 1 decade ago

    I wish people would stop trying to spin this, so that it makes Obama seem like a racist... We all know what he meant, but we try to pretend that the racial tensions that he is saying that we need to get past don't exist... Those tensions are there, anyone who's says they are not there are either naive or in denial... What Obama is saying, is our diversity is what makes our country great, we need to embrace it, and come together as a country in order to strive for a " more perfect " union...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You watch Fox News, Nascar, 24,Listen to Limbaugh, think Bill O'Reilly is intelligent, eat fast food, believe there were WMD, hope to get taken in the Rapture,and vote Republican.

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