The Handle of the Blade... today.
I hate racism! I hate it when people are racist! Why does Fletcher have to be so cruel?? I'm sure that right now in the beginning of this I'm sounding really lame, but you want to know what's fucking lame?? That so many people, people who are teenagers, the youth, people who are going to be running the planet in about 20 or 30 years... they're given this handle of anger called racism!!
But isn't that just the easy way out? This is for anyone who is racist, whether you're black, white, puerto rican, asian... who the fuck cares... we all bleed the same color. The easy way out of learning something about someone else and getting over the fact that they look different from you is shutting yourself up. And what kind of way to live is that? How could someone be so arrogant as to judge someone by the way they look!!
Are we not all human? In ourselves, is it not obvious that there's so much more going on under the surface? I cannot say that I've ever met a person who doesn't have feelings or who doesn't worry about things. We all do. Right? Doesn't this make us very alike? I heard someone say that they hated black people today.
Is it not true that when someone is mentally ill, or 'gone,' aren't they just an empty shell? You know what? Some people can't see that. Some people, I've finally learned, just aren't mentally open enough to accept someone they don't know even though they may look different or hang out with a different crowd or do something different on the weekends.
This is not a "why can't we all just get along" statement. This is the kind of statement that says... "RACISM IS A FUCKING WASTE OF TIME!!"
You know what else? I've never met a racist person who is truly brilliant. I have yet to meet someone who judges a person's character based on their outside 'shell' who is extremely smart. Why? Maybe it's because they realize there's nothing to gain from hate.
Do you guys want to know what breeds out of words like "nigger?" Hate breeds out of words like that, and do you guys want to know what we get from hate? Tragedies like Jack Blakely. But why can't anyone see that? Why did his death only make racial tensions worse?
I haven't met anyone yet who is as seriously angry about this as I am. I'm not a radical, I'm pissed. I've lost a family member because of guns, so I think I'm perfectly justified to be as angry as I am.
So here's the handle, hate... Well take this fucking blade and stab it through your hateful heart.
But isn't that just the easy way out? This is for anyone who is racist, whether you're black, white, puerto rican, asian... who the fuck cares... we all bleed the same color. The easy way out of learning something about someone else and getting over the fact that they look different from you is shutting yourself up. And what kind of way to live is that? How could someone be so arrogant as to judge someone by the way they look!!
Are we not all human? In ourselves, is it not obvious that there's so much more going on under the surface? I cannot say that I've ever met a person who doesn't have feelings or who doesn't worry about things. We all do. Right? Doesn't this make us very alike? I heard someone say that they hated black people today.
Is it not true that when someone is mentally ill, or 'gone,' aren't they just an empty shell? You know what? Some people can't see that. Some people, I've finally learned, just aren't mentally open enough to accept someone they don't know even though they may look different or hang out with a different crowd or do something different on the weekends.
This is not a "why can't we all just get along" statement. This is the kind of statement that says... "RACISM IS A FUCKING WASTE OF TIME!!"
You know what else? I've never met a racist person who is truly brilliant. I have yet to meet someone who judges a person's character based on their outside 'shell' who is extremely smart. Why? Maybe it's because they realize there's nothing to gain from hate.
Do you guys want to know what breeds out of words like "nigger?" Hate breeds out of words like that, and do you guys want to know what we get from hate? Tragedies like Jack Blakely. But why can't anyone see that? Why did his death only make racial tensions worse?
I haven't met anyone yet who is as seriously angry about this as I am. I'm not a radical, I'm pissed. I've lost a family member because of guns, so I think I'm perfectly justified to be as angry as I am.
So here's the handle, hate... Well take this fucking blade and stab it through your hateful heart.