I'm the Culprit

[Nick_A]

Since no one else has taken the blame, by the process of elimination the fault lies with those like me. I was hoping to avoid being exposed but now it is becoming more evident. One thing for sure though is that I cannot seek to hide in Brazil until the next scapegoat appears.

FOXNews.com - Brazilian President Says Credit Crisis Caused by 'White People With Blue Eyes' - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Brazil's President, while meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Thursday, said the global financial crisis was caused by "white people with blue eyes."

 

[wil]

I've been wondering if that is a particular translation or idiom in Portuguese that it came out that way...white people with blue eyes...

sort of like 'westerners'

 

[shawn]

You know if he had pointed the finger at any other ethnic group he would be in for troubles.

 

[iBrian]

Downing Street says the remarks made by da Silva, who is white, were meant for "domestic consumption."

Oh, that's okay, then. Don't worry - the British spin-doctors say he was just talking about white blue-eyed Brazilians.

 

[greymare]

Lucky for me I have green eyes. (does that eliminate my credit card debt?)

 

[nativeastral]

Oh, that's okay, then. Don't worry - the British spin-doctors say he was just talking about white blue-eyed Brazilians.

what was that ronnie biggs getting up to over there the rake

 

[Tao_Equus]

Its a valid generalisation.

 

[Nick_A]

Its a valid generalisation.

Et tu, Brute

Condemned for my baby blues. Thank goodness Sinatra is long gone. He'd be burned at the stake while singing "My Way."

 

[iBrian]

HEADLINE: Frank Sinatra responsible for Financial Crisis

Ol' Blue Eyes fingered in credit crunch.

 

[Pathless]

http://www.nymbp.org/reference/WhitePrivilege.pdf

 

[citizenzen]

White males are such whiners when it comes to losing the privilege we've enjoyed for centuries.

What kind of sounds would come out of our mouths if we actually had endure the hardships we've imposed on others?

The mind reels.

 

[Tao_Equus]

Luiz da Silvaback, the Brazillian top gorilla, seems to be deliberately taken out of context from what I can see. Its one of these stupid healines that surrounds this April Fools Day G20 Summit. The news is obliged to cover the event but spends its coverage on mind swill rather than substance. OOOOOOOO isnt Obama's big black cadillac so BIIIIIIIIIIIIG!! He has to be top gorilla!!

 

[Dream]

White males are such whiners when it comes to losing the privilege we've enjoyed for centuries.

What kind of sounds would come out of our mouths if we actually had endure the hardships we've imposed on others?

Uh, no. Lets slow down there with the 'We whites caused the world's problems' business, which is not a valid generalization. We're no different from anybody else, and we do not have some kind of genetic evil that other folks don't have. As for whiners, no not in my family; nor are we constantly inventing crap lawsuits or plotting the overthrow of minor nations. We do not impose hardships on others but have endured them, and we are whites. The weaker whites die out just like with other racial profiles, and the surviving mutts of us struggle on. It is not a color thing.

 

[Pathless]

We're no different from anybody else, and we do not have some kind of genetic evil that other folks don't have.

While this is true in the "we're all human" sense, the "we're no different than anybody else" argument just does not hold true in the social reality of America, or Britain, for that matter, or probably the world, now that it's gone all 'globalized.'

"If the evidence says, and it does, that people of color continue to face discrimination ... then by definition, the people who are not the targets of the discrimination are advantaged.


"It doesn't mean white folks don't have to work hard. It doesn't mean white folks don't have to struggle. It means it pays to be a member of the dominant group."

Wendi C. Thomas: Raising awareness of white privilege : Analysis : Memphis Commercial Appeal

 

[Dream]

Somehow we haven't connected. This is about the leader of Brazil saying 'White blue-eyed people are responsible for ....' To bring Tim Wise into it changes the subject, kind of ignores the topic of the thread. I agree with what Mr. Wise is saying. Wise is correct that there are lots of privileges for whites, such as light colored matching band-aids, lots of white people in history here, etc. He is not saying white people are intrinsically evil, so I don't see how he fits into the discussion. I don't hear him saying 'We whites have caused the world's problems'. He is just saying that those who are 'White privileged' should be sticking up for those that are not. It is two different things.

First, Wise said, you must be clear on the extent of white privilege. "The point is not to feel guilty about something you had no choice but to receive," he said.....

Those with privilege can use their voices and power to create change.

 

[citizenzen]

Somehow we haven't connected. This is about the leader of Brazil saying 'White blue-eyed people are responsible for ....'

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva's full quote...

“This crisis was not created by blacks, nor Indians, nor poor people. It was a crisis that was created and spread throughout the world due to the irresponsible behavior by white people. Blue-eyed people that thought they knew everything but are now showing they knew nothing.”

100% truth.

Amen brother.

 

[wil]

So lets count the sins of us guilty blue eyed white folks.

We created a country with a gross national product that has addicted the world to gladly selling us goods and services in exchange for our dollars.

A country that has opened it doors and its shores to millions and millions of people for over 200 years and allowed them a better life than they had at home, so good very few go back except to visit relatives or send money.

A country where millions come to vacation and go to university and return with their pictures and education and tell others about the time they had here.

We not only buy back our recycled steel from China, we also assist in removing oil from the middle east, south america, canada, and heroin from afghanistan, cocaine from columbia...what's not to like.

Seems they've been glad to take our greenbacks for years...decades...centuries even, but now when our ecomomy hiccups they start to complain...but give us a few years and we'll still be providing billions in foriegn aide around the world and they'll still be accusing of us many more sins...

 

[Pathless]

Somehow we haven't connected. This is about the leader of Brazil saying 'White blue-eyed people are responsible for ....' To bring Tim Wise into it changes the subject, kind of ignores the topic of the thread. I agree with what Mr. Wise is saying. Wise is correct that there are lots of privileges for whites, such as light colored matching band-aids, lots of white people in history here, etc. He is not saying white people are intrinsically evil, so I don't see how he fits into the discussion. I don't hear him saying 'We whites have caused the world's problems'. He is just saying that those who are 'White privileged' should be sticking up for those that are not. It is two different things.

No, it doesn't ignore the topic of the thread. It helps connect the dots.

Basically, what the prime minister of Brazil has said is that "white people" in powerful positions run the world economy, and have been acting as if they know what they are doing. When the world economy begins to crash, it is those same "white people" in powerful places that are responsible for the problem.

You are absolutely right about the concept of white privilege; it does not claim that all white people are responsible for creating all of the world's problems. What it does assert is that white people benefit from their skin color, and have unearned advantages that people of color do not.

How this connects to the economic situation is that some white people, benefiting from their unearned advantages and the social structure, have created and perpetuated this ridiculous economic system based on production and consumption of finite resources. Furthermore, they have coerced or forced the rest of the world population to go along with this economic system. Playing on their advantages, they have set themselves up as experts, marginalizing and destabilizing any economic system that was not capitalist; this has evolved into the global economy, which is now quite sour.

So what the Brazilian leader is saying is quite true; in effect: "This is your system. You sold it to us, you told us it was not only good, but that it was the best, even the only way. And now it's broken. And that's your fault."

As unpopular as such a statement might be, it is true.

So white people need to buck up and take a little hit on the chin.

 

[Pathless]

So lets count the sins of us guilty blue eyed white folks.

We created a country with a gross national product that has addicted the world to gladly selling us goods and services in exchange for our dollars.

A country that has opened it doors and its shores to millions and millions of people for over 200 years and allowed them a better life than they had at home, so good very few go back except to visit relatives or send money.

A country where millions come to vacation and go to university and return with their pictures and education and tell others about the time they had here.

We not only buy back our recycled steel from China, we also assist in removing oil from the middle east, south america, canada, and heroin from afghanistan, cocaine from columbia...what's not to like.

Seems they've been glad to take our greenbacks for years...decades...centuries even, but now when our ecomomy hiccups they start to complain...but give us a few years and we'll still be providing billions in foriegn aide around the world and they'll still be accusing of us many more sins...

Again, the righteousness of the white man, whose systems are the best that anyone has to offer, and is the pinnacle of achievement and civilization.

 

[Nick_A]

Well I see racism is alive and well. At least I don't have to worry about being branded with 666 since they are on guard for blue eyes. I'll just buy extra pairs of dark glasses since we could have a shortage due to fashionable racism. Then I have to get used to looking cool so as not to arouse suspicion in polite society which could report me as one of "them."

Hopefully it blows over after a while and a new form of racism will become fashionable so I can remove my dark glasses and once again become acceptable in peace loving society.