Racism

For most, its a touchy subject.  For me, I find it to be bullshit, an excuse to get mad.  Let me explain a little bit…

A white person calls me a nig*er.  I’m going to get SOOOOO PISSED OFF AND OFFENDED AND START PARADING AROUND AND HOOTING AND HOLLERING AND MAKE A HUGE ASS SCENE.  Why?  Because that word is RACIST!

A black person calls me a cracker or honkey.  I’m going to get red-faced and extremely offended and tell the person to shut the fuck up.  Why?  Because that word is RACIST!

One thing I’ve seen happen a lot throughout my school days is this :  A black person in a group will call a white kid a cracker or honkey and the group of black people start laughing and think its hilarious.  The teacher, or authority figure, does nothing, says nothing.

A white person in a group of white kids calls a black kid a nig*er and instantly the black kid has an expression on his face like he just witnessed his mom and dad get shotgun blasted in the face from 2 feet away.  The teacher immediately sends the white kid to the office and the atmosphere of the room turns from hilarity to somberness.

The conclusion I have come to… and its a saddening conclusion… is that it has become socially acceptable, for some odd reason, for black people to easily get away with being racist to white people, but the second the “n” word is voiced, all Hell breaks loose.  Why is that?  Does the majority of the white man have some deep-rooted feeling of regret and sorriness that slavery once occurred?  Does the majority of the white man think, ” oh shit, white people once enslaved black people, so they are justified in this generation to say honkey and cracker and not get in trouble for it.  The white people of this generation had nothing to do with slavery.  It happened generations ago.   Black people of this generation… you are not a slave, nor were you ever a slave, nor will you ever be a slave.  Get over it.  I’m not sitting here supporting slavery or saying it was awesome, because it wasn’t.  It was fucking bullshit.  My point is, too many black people today are so bent up on the fact that blacks were once enslaved that they practically live their lives like they are still enslaved or just became free 2 weeks ago.  A lot of black people today live their life with resentment towards white people because whites once enslaved blacks.  ITS 2010 !  Shut the fuck up.  Black people, the world does not hate you, you hate yourselves.  You call each other nig*ers.  You are being racist against your own race!  If you are going to belittle yourselves, don’t be so quick to anger when somebody else belittles you.

Also, racist terms are just words.  When somebody uses a racist term against me, I don’t shit my pants.  I ignore it.  It’s a word.  It did not inflict physical harm upon me.  It did not kill me.  A word is a word.

One can be racist verbally.  One can carry out a physical act of racism.  We will never be able to stop whites, mexicans, blacks and asians from physically hurting each other.  We can, however, eliminate verbal racism.  People will always use the words, but ignore the words.  Just simply fucking ignore the fucking words people.  Bullies at school thrive because they get a reaction out of somebody.  Once the big bullies that pick on people stop getting reactions, they fucking back off.  It’s no longer fun for them.  If you stop getting pissed off when you hear the word honkey , cracker, jew, spic, nigger, etc. People will stop saying it.  Why?  Because they will get no satisfaction of hurting that person.  People use racist terms to anger that person, to set them off, to make their blood boil.  Stop getting angry when you hear that racial slur, stop being set off when you hear that racial slur, don’t let your blood boil when you hear that racial slur.  Don’t react when you hear that racial slur.  Keep walking, turn your cheek, smile or laugh at that person.  This will end verbal racism.