That is the only title I could come up with for this post. As I was on one of my favorite e-zine websites, Clutch magazine, I had come across an article that had left me furious, confused, and heartbroken. All too often we say that racism is still alive and rearing its ugly head, but not often do we see the other side of it from whichever end our persepctive is on.
I found an article on Clutch that briefly discusses how a writer had posted an article about "The Non-Black Verison of The Talk", and immdeiately felt disgusted. As is that weren't enough, I actually had to click the link and see the post for myself. I read on in disbelief that someone would actually tell their child/children these utterly ridiculous and often untrue things. Although this can be true for a small number of individuals, it is in no way shape or form a reflection of our entire race.
This actually had me reference run ins with people of the "opposite race" that I am, and I noticed how some of their behavior can be heavily influenced by nonsense like this. Why should I apologize or be categorized by something as simple as the color of my skin? Our country would like for us to believe that we have moved past things like this but in reality, it has gone nowhere, but rather has become the white elephant in the room that everyone seems to avoid, albeit unsuccessfully.
The link to this article is contained in the Clutch article, and you can visit it from there because I refuse to post that hatred on my blog for my own personal preferences. The actual article also has several links in it as well, to somehow persuade those who refuse to believe and take heed to his advice and show examples to prove his point in my opinion. This only serves as a catalyst to further push the segregation and color lines that have become invisible, but highly present, in our society over the past 60 years or so.
He even goes on further to commit an act of treason, butsubliminally suggesting that our President does not deserve to have his title because of his race, oops, I mean should "be scrutinized much more carefully than you would a white." Seriously? Are we still stuck in the Jim Crow south? In case you haven't noticed Mister, we are living in the year of Our Lord, 2012 -and our President just does happen to look like me, AND does a DAMN good job at what he does, especially in comparison to some immediate past white Presidents, and spends FAR less money while doing so; check the facts on government websites and other tools if you don't trust them so much.
In the Clutch article, it asks should he be fired and the first commenter makes a good point in their comment by saying "what would that do?...are there even any editors anymore?...why was this even published?", and I wonder the same. The sad truth is, what will it do? With technology these days, he could simply go on to create a website of his own and continue to spread his hateful opinions on to people and could very likely become the reason/leader of a cult (a la CSI "Shooting Stars" episode).
Individuals like him and Don Imus are only a few faces of several older white people who continue to harbor hatred that stems from their roots so deep down, they likely have no idea or care for why they think that way, they just do. And sadly, they're going on inserting poison into young impressionable innocent minds for no apparent reason -making it even harder for the young black children who must still receive "The Talk" because of people with beliefs such as theirs. Making it THAT much harder for us to continue to raise leaders with skin kissed a little longer by God's sun (as said by Chaair-WOMAN Roslyn M. Brock, a VUU Alumna, at a GET HYPE event held by NAACP) in America. "The Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave"
-DaINKtellectual
I found an article on Clutch that briefly discusses how a writer had posted an article about "The Non-Black Verison of The Talk", and immdeiately felt disgusted. As is that weren't enough, I actually had to click the link and see the post for myself. I read on in disbelief that someone would actually tell their child/children these utterly ridiculous and often untrue things. Although this can be true for a small number of individuals, it is in no way shape or form a reflection of our entire race.
This actually had me reference run ins with people of the "opposite race" that I am, and I noticed how some of their behavior can be heavily influenced by nonsense like this. Why should I apologize or be categorized by something as simple as the color of my skin? Our country would like for us to believe that we have moved past things like this but in reality, it has gone nowhere, but rather has become the white elephant in the room that everyone seems to avoid, albeit unsuccessfully.
The link to this article is contained in the Clutch article, and you can visit it from there because I refuse to post that hatred on my blog for my own personal preferences. The actual article also has several links in it as well, to somehow persuade those who refuse to believe and take heed to his advice and show examples to prove his point in my opinion. This only serves as a catalyst to further push the segregation and color lines that have become invisible, but highly present, in our society over the past 60 years or so.
He even goes on further to commit an act of treason, but
In the Clutch article, it asks should he be fired and the first commenter makes a good point in their comment by saying "what would that do?...are there even any editors anymore?...why was this even published?", and I wonder the same. The sad truth is, what will it do? With technology these days, he could simply go on to create a website of his own and continue to spread his hateful opinions on to people and could very likely become the reason/leader of a cult (a la CSI "Shooting Stars" episode).
Individuals like him and Don Imus are only a few faces of several older white people who continue to harbor hatred that stems from their roots so deep down, they likely have no idea or care for why they think that way, they just do. And sadly, they're going on inserting poison into young impressionable innocent minds for no apparent reason -making it even harder for the young black children who must still receive "The Talk" because of people with beliefs such as theirs. Making it THAT much harder for us to continue to raise leaders with skin kissed a little longer by God's sun (as said by Chaair-WOMAN Roslyn M. Brock, a VUU Alumna, at a GET HYPE event held by NAACP) in America. "The Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave"
-DaINKtellectual
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