Racism, WTF?
Yesterday’s festivities…Ah, well, I’m going to start with an explanation of the lack of a Rock Band update any time soon…My vocal cords are finally like screwed up, so they’ll need some time to recover, and I don’t get to drum often and my guitar skills are well, mediocre (I play on expert but lack consistency…I blame the strum bar, the only thing I don’t love about my strat)
anyways, I’ve been sitting around haven’t had a really good day, and so thoughts, theories, and all that good stuff are swimming around again.
In history today, we talked about the JFK presidency, interesting stuff…What got me interested was civil rights, crazy stuff right? Freedom riders taking bus tours, mobs attacking the buses, stuff that doesn’t even make sense. The weird thing? I always saw that as ages ago, when really it was just…say, 46 years? No wonder racism is so prevalent in the south, it was only like a couple generations ago, and some of those parents are still trying to teach it
Let it die. Racism and prejudice, it’s ignorance. There are few things that can make you look more stupid than simple ignorance. Are you really so insecure that you have to attempt to belittle others just to feel like you have an important role in the world? The color of your skin means nothing, even your accomplishments mean nothing. Who cares if you’re rich, successful, famous, have money, whatever? It’s your personality that makes you no matter who you are. A person who goes and changes their entire appearance is still the same person, so why should it matter what they look like?
It’s like getting a haircut, if someone gets a haircut, they don’t change, they just look different!
I guess I can’t change the world as quickly as I’d like to, especially since I’m not in the inner circles of adults since a good number of them think they are superior to a teenager (and I completely disagree, age is as irrelevant as race and gender).
As for teens though, I think we’re seriously failing to meet an understanding that would go a long way. Of course we could attribute part of this to comedians, television, and the like, but let’s get one thing straight.
Racism isn’t funny.
Generally, we fail to examine the seriousness in the things we say, and quite often an attempt at humor can touch something so…devastating, and yet people still laugh as though there isn’t a problem. Yesterday, I was out at lunch with some acquaintances, and I was joking around with a certain girl and she said “you’re number 23 and a half on my list of priorities” and someone questioned “23 and a half?” and the girl responded “yeah, he’s only half a person”
and guess what someone else said….A girl who I actually considered to be intelligent, but that just goes to prove that book smarts don’t equal true intelligence. Doing well in school doesn’t actually affect what kind of person you are. Anyways, the girl said “half a person? But that’s not even much, you’re supposed to at least honor the 3/5th compromise and count him as 3/5ths of a person”
Needless to say, I was the only black person there. You know what? People found it amusing…I admit, the part of me with a fondness for wit was somewhat entertained at the quick history related thought thrown in there, but once I actually thought about what was said, I realized it was pretty horrible. I know she didn’t actually mean any harm by it, but the fact that it was considered socially acceptable is quite astounding in a VERY negative way.
Here in my little town, we’ve somehow ended up in a society where racism is accepted and that just shouldn’t happen. I’m just going to make it plain and clear now,
I do take offense at racist comments, whether they’re directed at my race, or another one, they’re not good especially not in a time as rampant in racism as now.
I’m actually extremely tired of the bullshit. and yet everyone around me acts like it’s so alright and unpreventable. They say things like “Oh, well that’s bad” or “Why don’t you just date a black girl?” My reasoning is because I shouldn’t have to, running from a problem isn’t the best way to fight it. It’s a problem that needs to be dissolved and yet, no one actually tries to do anything about it, perhaps people are simply trying to avoid conflict, which is fine because I am the type who goes out of my way to avoid conflict, but where has that gotten me? I’ll have to say absolutely nowhere. Maybe we can just let this racism horse die out on its own as the older generations pass on into the next life, hopefully their ideas haven’t been passed on too successfully.
But yeah, I don’t want to hear crap like “Myron doesn’t count, he’s white”, the “n word”, or anything implying that one race may be superior or inferior to another one, because things aren’t that clean cut.
I don’t care how much it’s said, I will never take pride in people saying that I’m “white”
Why not? Because that’s false acceptance of me as a person. As a matter of fact, that’s fucking denial of my humanity.
I’m yet to pounce on anyone before it because I understand that people don’t always think as much as I do, but really there’s got to be a line drawn somewhere, because it’s not getting any better at all, worse if anything.
I don’t give a damn if this is Alabama, I’m not going to lay down and accept anything that I believe simply isn’t right just because no one else wants to take a chance and fix it. No matter where you are, if you want something enough, and you have enough determination, you can get it. You may go through some levels of hell, but eventually you’ll get your prize.
Excuse me for all the “swear words” and general angriness, my rage tends to get pretty bad if I backseat on an issue for too long.
Perhaps I have a repost for something similar to this, perhaps a little less angst filled. If so, then you can expect a post of that tomorrow.
Ciao
–MyronJ
Tags: racism, ignorance, stupidity, white, black, hope, history
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