There really is no such
thing as racism. This idea that somehow
white people think there is something different and unintelligent about someone
because of the color of their skin is ludicrous. Oh sure, there are some people who some how have been sent into
intellectual purgatory (either through brain-washing or self denial) and think
there is a difference, where they in turn act out this thought policy against
each other. But let’s face something
first; such people exist on both sides of the fence. What really makes us different is not skin color; it is
culture. And since such a thing cannot
be pointed at and easily understood, it has always been easier for the little
brains to just avoid things that don’t look like themselves.
As for groups of individuals
that breed hate. They are anomalies and
hardly represent the working class, bread and butter of the world. Very much, unlike, what the movies portray,
there is no vast conspiracies. And in
times where these evil mongers rise from the ash to inflict pain and torture on
those they hate the most, do we see no response from the masses? Are these ‘minorities’ forgot and left to
their lot? No of course not. During disasters and troubled times we
always see that the true heart of the human spirit doesn’t care about what
color your skin is. If it were really
the case that some grand social difference existed between the two physical
poles, wouldn’t it also stand to reason that one group could not, should not,
expect the other to help in time of need?
But that is not what we see.
During the WTC attacks there was a picture of someone covered in dust
and soot and shitty thick blood and a rescue worker was pulling them along,
moving them away from the dangerous and yet to fall buildings. One of them was darker than the other. I won’t tell you which was which, in fact,
think of this as a social experiment: which was which? Think about it. Does the person rescued have your skin color, or is the opposite
true?
I heard today that someone
with more melanin in their skin was not willing to go to work today, because,
as she put it, “It’s racists, that black people have to work today…Do they (all
of us) have to work on Lincoln’s birthday?”
And in that statement lays the perfect example of what is really to
blame. Emotion, ignorance, intolerance,
and plain social irresponsibility. You
see, most people do have to work on Presidents Day, only the government (and of
course Banks) really have this as an official holiday. The same of course goes for Martin Luther
King Jr. The day is officially noticed
by the Federal Government, who gives all of its employees the day off. The fact that this person had failed to
research her claim about what holidays people do not have to work and instead
based her emotional response upon her intolerance toward what she preserves as
the ‘evil white’ culture, only proves that she is completely ignorant of the
entire situation. Would it therefore
be wrong of opposing cultures to look at her words and feel that her ignorance
does some how make her different and therefore her culture as well? By saying such a thing, she herself has
created racism.
It is constantly said that
white people are to blame for the racial in-equality. This fact may have been true to some extent in previous
generations, but the idea that it exerts influence today is ridiculous. The truth is, no matter what color your skin
is, you have opportunity in the U.S.
The in-equality comes from the social differences of the two groups, not
the physical make-up of the group.
In order to illustrate this
we could easily prove that two white kids growing up in socially different climates
will turn out as polar opposites of each other. That being, that a white kid raised in the streets of South-East Los
Angeles will be socially opposite as one rose in Beverly Hills. A fact that is obvious. But this has nothing to do with the color of
the skin of the individual and everything to do with what the person believes
in morally. It is about their personal
/ social needs and perceived responsibilities there in.
Therefore our ‘poor’ white
boy raised in East LA would have a different set of moral teachings and values
than the child in the Up scale west side.
Where the problem is, comes from the leaders who instead of drawing
attention to the lack of moral teaching, they instead do a disservice to all people,
by calling this behavior ‘black-culture’.
As if somehow middle class 9-5’ers are ‘white-culture’. What the leaders don’t seem to understand is
that by labeling anything with a racial tinge, they immediately do the opposite
of what their intention is.
Assume our white poor boy
again. His behavior would be called
‘black’. In this way he is stigmatized
into accepting his position as being lower than ‘white’, because he has
‘black-culture’ attitudes. This doesn’t
mean he’s black, because he obviously is not, but since he’s been labeled as
such, he now also has a social hurdle to overcome. What the leaders should be doing is teaching lower income
families to be strong and independent.
What they should be doing is teaching that respect is earned and more
importantly, first given, before it can be received. What they should be doing is teaching the golden rule en-mass to
all those that will listen.
Instead what we get is the
opposite of Dr. King’s dream. Instead
of ‘Black man and White man, Jew and gentile, Protestant and Catholic” joining
hands and singing together, we are becoming more segregated. We are being taught, through social
programs, that there must be some kind of difference between white skin and
black skin. We are being taught, by the
very leaders of this so-called movement, that there is a difference.
I know for a fact that
having dark skin doesn’t hinder you in this world. I have two friends, one boss, and many other acquaintances that
would be considered to have high melanin in their skins. All of them seem to understand that it is
the individual’s responsibility to make something of themselves. All of them seem to understand that everyone
has enemies, and it’s not how you succumb to them, but overcome them that
matters. All of them seem to understand
that learning and teaching and being a good person comes from self-love and
greater inner discipline, not from ‘fronting’ or any other gaming that we see
from the urban youth.
I would also like to say to
all those community leaders: Stop putting
words in Dr. King’s mouth! I have had
it with, “Well if he was alive today I think he would…” The truth is, he is not alive today. The truth is, what he wanted he left for us
in his speeches and notes. The truth
is, neither you nor I can guess what he would be working on today. In fact, following this logic, could I
therefore say that Dr. King would be working on my issues of social
in-equality? It’s that sort of religious
banter that sends me into a deep thrunch.
How can we know what he wanted? We can’t. You see this all the time, where people who think themselves
intellectually superior to the masses climb up and say something like, “I know
what (insert figure here) wants us too do!”
If you don’t believe me, read the gospel of Mark and then read the
gospel of John, noticing all the words John puts in the mouth of Christ. There is a saying, no sooner did Jesus knock down the dragon of
belief, than Paul set it on it’s feet again.
Don’t let anyone insinuate the meaning of things, when they do, they are
acting on selfish needs, they are being evil and dangerous. Cry foul at every turn.
The truth is, no one knows
what Dr. King would have worked on…that assumes that his original goal has been
met:
This
will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new
meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every
mountainside, let freedom ring."
And
if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring
from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty
mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania!
Let
freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let
freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But
not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let
freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let
freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every
mountainside, let freedom ring.
When
we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all
of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at
last!"
Sounds to me like Dr. King
wanted all men to be free, regardless of color or spiritual thought. Sounds to me
like Dr. King wanted a land where freedom was inherited and remained so through
sacrifice and pride (Land where my father's died, land of the pilgrim's pride). Sounds to me like
Dr. King expected us to accept each other as free men and not burden ourselves with in-equality.
I don’t know about you, but freedom is becoming a thing of the past, not the future. Sounds to me like all those well wishers fucked it up when they started thinking they knew what Dr. King wanted.