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Give and Take Racism has always been a tricky question 2 try and answer.. There's the overall underlying condition that is based on human nature and tribalism. but that is pretty non-specific. It can NEVER be fully remedied. the baser instinct of racism is a human condition that needs 2 be logically overcome or given into. Those that give into it , can be separated into two groups..Those that search for reasons to continually to feel that way and those that don't need reasons. Although racism is defined as promoting one's superiority......It's underlying motivation is fear In America racism has been defined as White against people of color. Specifically Black. Prior to 1967 racism in America was easy to define, after that it got complicated. Prior to 1967 people who needed reasons to be racists, had few to find..FEAR was a very limited factor..People of color were not to be feared. but helped. Prior to 1967 racism didn't need a reason or reasoning What should be noted is that for most people... it's not a cognitive decision. neither the fear nor the reasons In 1967, Lyndon Johnson, initiated AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. For many that set the fear stage...It was always okay to give to Blacks what they were entitled..no fear in that.. but for the government to mandate Affirmative Action.. was not a giving but a taking. For Thirty years that struggle wore on.. It seemed to be dissipated with restrictions and rulings to suppress affirmative action as a matter of law. Discrimination still works as matter of law, but NOT affirmative action. Even though Affirmative Action did not become unjust...It set the stage for the fear of reverse discrimination. For those RACISTS who needed NO need for reasons found a new avenue to take them where they wanted to go. They had a reason to justify to others their FEAR. Over the course of the last twenty years.. The Right baited Americans, with the fear and lies about Affirmative action not with logic, but with it's the results.. Blacks were invading our lives, on TV, Movies, the Arts, economic power, in relationships, in politics, and societal norms. and the fear Hispanics would soon follow.. And the final Straw.. Barrack Obama. We were no longer giving to them, they were taking . We didn't have 2 be told what would happen, we were watching happen. For those searching for reasons 2 be racists they finally found one on the side of "The Right". Then IT became complicated because was so much harder 2 tell difference between racists. But Illogical and false reasons took hold, to revive baser instincts of racism. |
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So in reality what many White people think is happening...And people of color also think is happening White people are LOSING America.... White people are LOSING America.... White people are LOSING America.... The illogical and false reason.. What that statement means..Those that read it get an impression....that is false and illogical... From both sides of the coin. The Truth....... America was NEVER White people's to lose. America.. has always been for Americans to lose.
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Trump, of course, is a race baiter.. Not since Hilter in Germany, has someone used the "Us" against "US"... with such success.. skariff, closes his blog with a phrase that has so much truth in it.. "Prejudice cannot be conquered with logic, logic didn't instill it and logic cannot eradicate it." The Republican Party is caught between a rock and a hard place. It is built on Lies, inequality, and racism.. They can keep it going for a time.. they can try to slowly change it... or they can come clean with the truth. They won't make that choice.. they will TRY to do it all. But they can't...They have made a bed to where truth doesn't matter..... those That can't live with it, will go away, and find what they can.. Those that can live with it, will NEVER find it. Prejudice cannot be conquered with logic, logic didn't instill it and logic cannot eradicate it.
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It was probably 1965......I was a senior in high school when a girl from the United States was in my class. First things we noticed about her was a heavy accent, now I know it was from the South of the US. Another way he was different was she came to school every morning with her hair back-combed and heavily sprayed like a haystack and so much make -up that it looked clownish to us. We lived in the same neighbourhood and we were walking home together one day when I noticed tears on her cheeks and I asked her what was the matter. She told me that she missed her Nanny so much....that she loved her Nanny more than anyone in the world and they left her behind at "home".....I thought Nanny must be her grandmother, but it turned out to be a Black servant that had always taken care of her, even nursing her when she was a baby. I found out that in the American South in the 40's they still had wet-nurses. Anyways, her parents had decided that she was too old for a Nanny and this trip to Canada was the perfect opportunity to let go of her......I was still confused about the relationship.....I asked about writing letters or phoning her Nanny since she missed her so much......She would just hake her head and cry....... She was confused that I didn't understand her dilemma......And then she said, as if it was a given ......Her Nanny was a Negro and they aren't really people.....She actually said that without shame or compunction......as if I was stupid not to know that......Her Nanny was not fully Human and her family were exasperated and ashamed of her for harbouring so much love and attachment to a Negro.....They kept telling her tat she was brought up better than that and they were afraid of a future America where Negros were allowed full rights....
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It was probably 1965......I was a senior in high school when a girl from the United States was in my class. First things we noticed about her was a heavy accent, now I know it was from the South of the US. Another way he was different was she came to school every morning with her hair back-combed and heavily sprayed like a haystack and so much make -up that it looked clownish to us. We lived in the same neighbourhood and we were walking home together one day when I noticed tears on her cheeks and I asked her what was the matter. She told me that she missed her Nanny so much....that she loved her Nanny more than anyone in the world and they left her behind at "home".....I thought Nanny must be her grandmother, but it turned out to be a Black servant that had always taken care of her, even nursing her when she was a baby. I found out that in the American South in the 40's they still had wet-nurses. Anyways, her parents had decided that she was too old for a Nanny and this trip to Canada was the perfect opportunity to let go of her......I was still confused about the relationship.....I asked about writing letters or phoning her Nanny since she missed her so much......She would just hake her head and cry....... She was confused that I didn't understand her dilemma......And then she said, as if it was a given ......Her Nanny was a Negro and they aren't really people.....She actually said that without shame or compunction......as if I was stupid not to know that......Her Nanny was not fully Human and her family were exasperated and ashamed of her for harbouring so much love and attachment to a Negro.....They kept telling her tat she was brought up better than that and they were afraid of a future America where Negros were allowed full rights.... In the South people love their dogs.. until it bites them., That can be said about other American also.. but in the South they define their "dogs" differently, and in the South their bark can be worse than their bite..
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