Quote Originally Posted by hugovsilva View Post
First of all we don't know if that happens to all visiting teams so its difficult to say if it was racism or not. I wouldn't jump into conclusions so fast. I think they just like to show off what they have just like any rich person.

On a side note, it shocks me to see how easily people call racism when a white person does something "unpleasant" to a black one, but the contrary does not happen.

Another example is these two sentences I have seen in many t-shirts and a few other places: "Black Pride" and "Stop black on black crime". If I don't see a problem with the first one because one should be proud of what he was born (I don't even want to imagine what would happen if was seen wearing a white pride shirt), the 2nd phrase is pure racism against anyone that is not black but no one points that out.

That is totally untrue. Being that you are not Black, I would not expect you to understand the phrase. The phrase speaks to the black people and the balck people only and it makes a point that we should not be killing our own people or committing crimes against our own people. That's it! It has nothing to do with anything else. It does not say go out and commit a crime against another race. It basically says respect your own people. All crime should stop!

I may agree with the first one somewhat. However it to speaks to the only the black race. After being oppressed for so long, it says that we should have pride in ourselves and hold our heads up.

Like someone said above, the best thing to do when you see that, is to ignore it. Because it may have nothing to do with you.

Alexander Robinson, executive director, National Black Justice Coalition

What should be the purpose of Black Pride?

I think Pride serves many purposes. One, of course, is to really affirm black same-gender-loving people. I think that the other, which was a part of the original purpose the original intent of those who worked on the first D.C. Black Pride was to really raise funds for organizations that were assisting the black LGBT community, in the area on some of the challenges that we faced, particularly around HIV/AIDS but I think now it’s expanded to other issues like caring for our youth. So really a fundraising and awareness building opportunity about both the challenges and opportunities that exist.