I'm amused that ethnical rants (even though they are at times quite justified) typically only revolve around the injustices done to the author's own ethnicity.
Hence another reason why racism, reverse racism, or harboring any ill feelings of the past, only leads to more racism. Sure, there are still some remnants of injustice against minorities today, but those won't go away until we learn to see through...
Eyes that do not see color at all.
Do I feel personally responsible for what my German-Nazi forebears might have done? No.
Do I feel bad/angry about what happened to my Native American ancestors? No. It's not affecting me, now, and it won't in the future.
I just really don't think I'll ever understand this mindset. And no, it's not because I'm a WASP, considering I was raised more closely with my Hispanic relatives, the fact that I'm an Atheist, and I like my mother's African-American boyfriend more now than I ever did my father, who I hate, and happens to be one of those typical racist WASP-types. All of my upbringings would point to the fact that I should be some liberal hippie right now, which I am not.
It's pure logic - analysis, psychology, sociology, history - that brings me to my conclusions.
There's a difference to being "color-blind", or not seeing color at all, and deliberately ignoring problems. And I think people rant about their own ethnic dilemmas because that's what they understand and know. I don't know what it's like to be discriminated against as, say, a Native-American. I'm for equal rights for EVERYONE, but this happens to be what I'm learning about. I just think people keep pushing this "We've come so far" bullshit as a way to get out of having to make progress. We're not equal, and maybe we never will be, but I don't want to stop trying. Liberal hippies aren't racists, says Derek.
He'd know.
Other than that stuff, I MISS you Daniel. Movie night sometime next month. Thanksgiving break? Mayhaps?
Hence another reason why racism, reverse racism, or harboring any ill feelings of the past, only leads to more racism. Sure, there are still some remnants of injustice against minorities today, but those won't go away until we learn to see through...
Eyes that do not see color at all.
Do I feel personally responsible for what my German-Nazi forebears might have done? No.
Do I feel bad/angry about what happened to my Native American ancestors? No. It's not affecting me, now, and it won't in the future.
I just really don't think I'll ever understand this mindset. And no, it's not because I'm a WASP, considering I was raised more closely with my Hispanic relatives, the fact that I'm an Atheist, and I like my mother's African-American boyfriend more now than I ever did my father, who I hate, and happens to be one of those typical racist WASP-types. All of my upbringings would point to the fact that I should be some liberal hippie right now, which I am not.
It's pure logic - analysis, psychology, sociology, history - that brings me to my conclusions.
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And I think people rant about their own ethnic dilemmas because that's what they understand and know. I don't know what it's like to be discriminated against as, say, a Native-American. I'm for equal rights for EVERYONE, but this happens to be what I'm learning about.
I just think people keep pushing this "We've come so far" bullshit as a way to get out of having to make progress. We're not equal, and maybe we never will be, but I don't want to stop trying.
Liberal hippies aren't racists, says Derek.
He'd know.
Other than that stuff, I MISS you Daniel. Movie night sometime next month. Thanksgiving break? Mayhaps?
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