Racism by any other name still smells as bad
February 8th 2007 10:27
If there is one subject that fascinates me and is yet still one of my pet peeves is the whole issue of not just race but racial discrimination and the myth of superiority. I like racists. Not because of their lack of discernable intelligence but because they are always at the ready to make me laugh at their vain attempts of trying to convince others they are better than everybody else. I suspect that if people were all the same colour then we'd find something else to differentiate each other. Can you imagine hearing any of these?
"I'm sorry but we don't serve green eyed people in here."
"Blonde bathrooms on the right, brunette bathrooms on the left"
"I'm sorry but this work has been earmarked for people who are over five foot five only."
Talk about absurdity! But as soon it's colour of the skin it's apparently okay for some to discriminate.
Have you ever really looked at someones skin colour? People aren't really the shade they're made out to be. "White" people aren't really "white" are they? If you hold up a sheet of blank white paper against someone who's apparently "white" are they the same? They're not are they? They come across more of a pinkish colour (except if you're english then you're an exception to the rule) "black" people aren't "black" either. More of a varying range of shades of chocolate if you ask me. Nothing is wrong with that. In fact I had a black friend who once challenged me on the whole race issue and told me because I lacked what he did (besides his massive intellect. I think he was joking about that though. Judging by some of my blogs I'm sure someone out there would agree) I was inferior. He switched it around
and said due to less melanin in my body I was as I said inferior.
Of course racists come in all shapes and sizes all colours and creeds. You just never know when you're going to come across one. I've met a few white ones and I've met a few black ones too. Neither being any better than the other. It's funny that when whites discriminate it's plain old racism, but when someone who's not white discriminates it's suddenly "reverse racism". So whats the difference? None as far as I can see. Racism is the same thing no matter who commits the act.
The little research I have done there is virtually no difference between people of different hues. What that basically says is that the no matter the packaging on the outside the gift of life and love is still on the inside.
These days I am beginning to feel sorry for people who are white. There seems to be this shift where they can now say or do very little against someone else of a diferent race for fear of being labelled "racist" whereas some one of a another race can basically say the same thing against whites and it's acceptable. Now don't get me wrong, I think it's just as bad no matter which shoe the foot is on. To give an example, what if the situation in Zimbabwe was reversed? What if the Prime Minister was white and he started to forcibly remove black farmers? The world would be up in arms.
The real or perceived problems of Tamworth in regard to the Sudanese refugees were put into sharp focus over the past few months. I believe that people should be accepted on an individual by individual basis. I find it deeply offensive when others say all people of this race act a certain way. From what I saw on television there were few problems with the Sudanese and they worked hard. When the Tamworth City Council objected to more refugees the racism tag was very quickly applied and I'm assuming under some super heavy weight political pressure they backed down. The mixture of political correctness and race is one dangerous concoction.
These days it's perfectly acceptable to have the BET awards, the JET awards, the NAACP image awards, the Soul Train Awards and the Latin Grammys (to stretch my point a little further) but the minute a white guy tries to come up with the idea of awards for that are seemingly exclude other "races" imagine the dumping on him by the media. There was a stink late last year over a college in the US that was offering a scholarship to "whites". It was done to show how unfair affirmative action apparently is. That is neither her nor there. The point is the controversy it created. Another example is how not only George W. Bush and one of the US Democratic Presidential candidates called Barack Obama "articulate" and that was something that made out to be offensive against African Americans. As I heard today from US comedian Dennis Miller this is no longer a matter about the colour of ones skin but the apparent thin-ness of it.
"I'm sorry but we don't serve green eyed people in here."
"Blonde bathrooms on the right, brunette bathrooms on the left"
Talk about absurdity! But as soon it's colour of the skin it's apparently okay for some to discriminate.
Have you ever really looked at someones skin colour? People aren't really the shade they're made out to be. "White" people aren't really "white" are they? If you hold up a sheet of blank white paper against someone who's apparently "white" are they the same? They're not are they? They come across more of a pinkish colour (except if you're english then you're an exception to the rule) "black" people aren't "black" either. More of a varying range of shades of chocolate if you ask me. Nothing is wrong with that. In fact I had a black friend who once challenged me on the whole race issue and told me because I lacked what he did (besides his massive intellect. I think he was joking about that though. Judging by some of my blogs I'm sure someone out there would agree) I was inferior. He switched it around
and said due to less melanin in my body I was as I said inferior.
Of course racists come in all shapes and sizes all colours and creeds. You just never know when you're going to come across one. I've met a few white ones and I've met a few black ones too. Neither being any better than the other. It's funny that when whites discriminate it's plain old racism, but when someone who's not white discriminates it's suddenly "reverse racism". So whats the difference? None as far as I can see. Racism is the same thing no matter who commits the act.
The little research I have done there is virtually no difference between people of different hues. What that basically says is that the no matter the packaging on the outside the gift of life and love is still on the inside.
These days I am beginning to feel sorry for people who are white. There seems to be this shift where they can now say or do very little against someone else of a diferent race for fear of being labelled "racist" whereas some one of a another race can basically say the same thing against whites and it's acceptable. Now don't get me wrong, I think it's just as bad no matter which shoe the foot is on. To give an example, what if the situation in Zimbabwe was reversed? What if the Prime Minister was white and he started to forcibly remove black farmers? The world would be up in arms.
The real or perceived problems of Tamworth in regard to the Sudanese refugees were put into sharp focus over the past few months. I believe that people should be accepted on an individual by individual basis. I find it deeply offensive when others say all people of this race act a certain way. From what I saw on television there were few problems with the Sudanese and they worked hard. When the Tamworth City Council objected to more refugees the racism tag was very quickly applied and I'm assuming under some super heavy weight political pressure they backed down. The mixture of political correctness and race is one dangerous concoction.
These days it's perfectly acceptable to have the BET awards, the JET awards, the NAACP image awards, the Soul Train Awards and the Latin Grammys (to stretch my point a little further) but the minute a white guy tries to come up with the idea of awards for that are seemingly exclude other "races" imagine the dumping on him by the media. There was a stink late last year over a college in the US that was offering a scholarship to "whites". It was done to show how unfair affirmative action apparently is. That is neither her nor there. The point is the controversy it created. Another example is how not only George W. Bush and one of the US Democratic Presidential candidates called Barack Obama "articulate" and that was something that made out to be offensive against African Americans. As I heard today from US comedian Dennis Miller this is no longer a matter about the colour of ones skin but the apparent thin-ness of it.
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