Derek Bodner’s Blog

I don’t have a problem with special interest groups. Well, I wouldn’t have a problem with them, if they weren’t all hypocritical douche bags, at least. Whether it’s Al Sharpton condemning Imus when he himself called someone a “beanie-wearing little Jew boy”, or whether it’s the NAACP crying out against the court of public opinion condemning Michael Vick, while they themselves published a “Report of Known Facts” during the Duke Lacrosse scandal that turned out to be entirely untrue, these groups end up doing an incredible amount of harm to truly getting to a point where race doesn’t matter. These are not groups that are looking for justice and equality, they are groups that are looking out for THEIR OWN “PEOPLE”. They promote differences in race. Sticking up for a minority is not all that’s needed in the pursuit of equality. If you yourself do not treat people equally, how can you expect those who look up to you to? If you promote differences based on race, how does that help us reach equality?

It’s organizations like these that make me think we’re not any closer to stamping out racism. Sure, there may not be laws promoting it anymore, or at least they aren’t as prevalent. Getting rid of the mindset, on both sides, has proven to be more difficult. And when special interest groups act the way that they do here, they just push the two sides farther apart. What I would love to see is the NAACP or Al Sharpton back the rights of a non-colored person. THAT’S when we start making progress. Until then, the pendulum may swing back and forth, but we’ll never find that middle.

*EDIT*
Tying in perfectly with the above post, I found this today:
Intel apologizes for racist advertisement
You can view the ad here:
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In this add, there’s one sprinter, multiplied 6 times, around a boss. The sprinter to show the speed of the CPU, and having 6 replica copies to show the dual core nature of the chip. processing multiple jobs simultaneously. It had to be the same person in order to make sense, so naturally it’s going to be the same ethnicity. Some people apparently found this offensive, as they saw this as 6 black men bowing down to the white boss.

THEY’RE NOT BOWING DOWN. Holy jeez, take 5 seconds to actually look at the position they’re in, and get past the skin color, and it becomes quite evident what’s going on in this picture. Since the 6 people have to be a clone in order for the ad to make sense, does that mean we can’t cast an African American in the role of a sprinter because it would be stereotyping? Or should we just get over this absurd PR non-sense?

The only people that would find that to be offensive are those that are looking for it. People with an agenda.

*EDIT* Classic comeback.
AMD spoofed counter-ad