Yuku free message boards

craig wrote:

---

My point was about Lisa and Dreamz, a Hispanic and a Black. Dreamz brought up race in ep.1 (who is white around here?) Lisi made the comment about Lilianna having an evil Mexican mind.

I think it's a stretch to hold up Lisi as an example of non-white racism. They seemed to be fudging a bit by including her in the Hispanic quota for that cast, just because she has a Cuban grandfather or something. Unless you knew about that, she would come across as ethnically and culturally white. "Hispanic" is an artificial construct that doesn't have anything to do with race per se, since most people in Latin America are multiracial and don't fit into neat little boxes, but Hispanics can be white or any other race. As for Dreamz's comments, I didn't see them as necessarily racist, he just seemed like a loose cannon who was not well socialized and had an underdeveloped sense of propiety.

If Dreamz had any insight he knew he couldn't beat Yao-man or Earl. So why vote out the guy who gave you the $60,000 truck? Looks to me like his disinterested desire to have another black win trumped any feelings of gratitude or honesty.

Perhaps, but let's be fair here. If blacks are under such social pressure to stick together as you claim, then Dreamz was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. As far as putting race above "feelings of gratitude," Dreamz wasn't stupid and saw Yau-Man's deal for what it was: a trap. It was a calculated game move, not a selfless act of generosity. A true test of Dreamz's motives would have been whether he would have chosen Earl over Stacy had she not been taken out by the idol. And I seriously doubt that Dreamz and Cassandra would have been willing to forfeit any chance they had of winning just to have an all black final 3.

There was a Double Standard for whites as compared to other races (especially blacks) in the race seasons. Nate caught grief as a sellout for working with the whites on Raro (rather than the weak black chciks who ganged up on the guys ep.1). Poor Nate. There was pruesure to "represent" and do his people proud. On the other hand, it's politically correct to jump on whites for working together with cries of racism, and political incorrect to call Jonathan a race traitor.

That's sounds like what Adam posted here, but I think he was just being a sore loser. Very little of what took place on the show supported that supposed double standard. The minorities crossed racial lines as much if not more than the whites did. The Hispanics sold out Billy. Yul and Becky sold out Cao Boi after he tried to sell out Becky. Nate and Rebecca sold out Stephannie, Nate sold out Rebecca, and Sundra sold out Nate. Cristina sold out J. P. Jenny sold out Brad after he had tried to sell out her. There were few people on that season who weren't race traitors at one time or another, so it looks like Adam was making excuses and imagining himself a victim of political correctness when the simple fact was that he and his allies were outplayed.