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Termyn8or -> RE: transcending racial prejudice (11/9/2008 3:31:55 AM)
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Still doing it I see. Now I used to be a different kind of racist, a bad one. Now it is different, because I realize the differences between different peoples of the European continent as well, as did my family.
You are being visual in nature, you are using skin color as a criterium, no matter what you do with it. If my sister shows up with a Ukrainiain boyfriend he and I will fight that day, and if he wins I will shoot him. Ukrainians are white skinned by the way.
To the OP specifically, I know exactly what you mean. We grew up in a different age. In our younger years we were on a much higher wrung of the social-economic ladder. It was not all that long before your birth that it became legal to teach Black people to read and write. Not everything we knew then was false, but things have changed. In record time I might add, in fact at this rate White people will be intelectually inferior, on the average, in a much shorter time than most expect. We have had thousands of years, they get two hundred years. At this rate we will be sunk in a few short decades and it will be we who hold the brooms in industry, if there ever is anymore industry.
I was raised with bigotry and prejudice and I came out of it, and if I can do it anyone can. I will further say that those who can't hold their anger should try comparing stories with mine, and yes my witnesses are alive. Shooting up the house with a 12 guage, trying to set it on fire, and now I have a very long fuse. I have learned. I can't really say what exactly I learned nut I don't want any more guilt, and that is paramount. I was bad.
Someday I will pay for what I have done, and I am done doing it, I don't even know if I can pay.
Perhaps White people are now paying for those years of extreme inustice, and my Father saw it. He was down there when they found Emmet Hill, and on the bus he was aghast I am sure, but he shut up. He was in the USAF and basically had nothing to say.
I grew up with this, I understand it and I don't really like it. I am all for racial pride, but personal pride is paramount. If you don't accomplish anything, you have no right to take credit from your race. It is you yourself who generates pride, not the blood in your veins.
So if you want to be a racist, that is totally fine, but if you want pride and respect you have to earn it yourself, if not, your ancestors would have shit on you. Mine would. (I mean on me)
That is the way I was taught. Our clan is better, but it is not because of what my Greatgrandfathers did or my Grandfathers, nor even my Father. It is because of what I did. I was taught that it is my turn. And if I fail, they would not reward me. In fact I did not fail and they still did not reward me, unless you consider the education and all that..
Times really have changed. We may have been different, but I am not seeing personal responsibility taken by the newer generation. I don't see the values that, no matter what we all had at least at some point in time. People want it both ways, they want to live off their heritage yet do whatever they want, such as sipping on gin and juice, smoking endo with their mind on their money and their money on their mind. .....
They can keep this world, beam me up. Yes the racist deal has gotten better, people ar a bit less stupid, but it's just not enough.
T
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