"Serious thread" - LOL
"Very serious question" - LOL
"it was locked by him" - false
"he told me I am a horrible forum member" - true
"just 3 words" - Maybe try writing a longer opening post

I literally have no idea what was wrong with the thread I posted.  I have never had any interaction with this sully guy before but I guess I will have to wait until he disappears from the board for another year or two to post the thread again.

Maybe this isn't a real issue where you people live and you all think I'm trolling.  However it is a very real issue in Chicago.

Ok, here's a real response:

The topic seemed to be pretty obvious trolling. It was merely going to invite racist comments from the immature subset of board members. If you really want to discuss some nuance of this issue, then make a more legitimate post about it.

AlexPenev wrote on 08/22/11 at 07:30:03:


The city and suburbs are still very much segregated.  Their still strongly exists the influence and pressure to date within your race as well as class.  Stereotypes are prevalent more than ever.  If you go to high school in the city you would see how race groups stick to eachother like glue.  Now, at least in this city I'm not quite sure this is a bad thing.  The groups just seem to naturally mesh together better with their own type.  You can drive through certain neighborhoods and literally not see anyone with skin color other than black for 10-15 minutes of driving.  Same with hispanics in other neighborhood.  I know many people and definitely it was common in high school, when people saw a white girl holding hands with a black or hispanic man it was highly scrutinized and frowned upon.  Yet somehow the city seems to function within itself with this continued although un-enforced segregation.  At least in the city interracial dating or relationships are still not socially acceptable.  Other places I have been to outside of the city, even not to far away I see interracial couples much more often.  Money may also be at play or a reason behind all of this.   I'm not taking either side in this matter.  I'm just curious and want to hear honest opinions on the matter of interracial relationships and their acceptability in other places and this diverse forum could help provide that.

Well that could have been a nice post in that thread and it could have been a great mature discussion but sully has something seriously against me and or the topic.

Still the thread should never have been shut down especially so harshly by this Sully dude.  I didn't post anything wrong and the topic is a good one and at least worthy of brief discussion or let it sink into oblivion if no one wants to reply.  Immature jokes and posts could have easily just been deleted.

Edit - It's almost less of a should it be acceptable or not deal because most people believe it to be ok.  Moreso it is a what are the consequences how would this change things if it keeps growing in popularity as it is rapidly.  It was very minimal in the 80s.  Then it was 1/7 relationships were interractial in the early 00's.  Not it is at 1/5 which is a huge jump.  I'm more curious as to why it is happening and it's consequences and how will it change things once it gets really into the bigger cities, because it isn't prevalent yet where I live.

MVT for Worst Troll of 2011.

Is it cultural differences / differentiation the reason (I think so) why most people choose to associate more with their own race or racism?

Is biology the reason why most people are not attracted to other races other than their own (I think so) or racism?

Racism is an excuse used for these things and false stereotypes come out of all of this.

I have heard the argument made that if you say you (white person) won't get involved in a sexual relationship with a black, asian, hispanic, etc than you are racist.  However is it not out of our control who we feel attraction for?  Or should we force ourselves to try and feel attraction for them so as to not be labeled as stereotypical or racist.  I think not.  Me personally I'm not really attracted to anyone except whites.  Can't help it.  I have friends too besides whites however no girl I would ever consider dating cuz I'm not attracted to them.

If you want to siphon just that line out of my post, then yes.

Good to hear Flo!