I got a message from someone who asked me why I post "all that black stuff," and "all the anti-cop shit." Well, for one, if they had to ask this question, then they are obviously part of the greater problem. Two, I have a conscience, and seeing fellow humans treated in the way that they have been treated for hundreds of years, as chattel, as some sort of subspecies, it angers me.
White supremacist programming surrepetitiously teaches us, as whites, that those who don't share our skin color are really nothing more than talented apes.
That never imprinted on me.
That's why my dumb white ass moved to the Crenshaw district in LA, shortly after the riots. I've always considered everyone to be my equal, regardless of their wrapper, and so I expect the same from others. Mostly, that's what I got. There were instances of anger, and even violence directed towards me because of my race.
Some of you white folks reading this might be thinking "Well that's what you get for moving into a black neighborhood." The implication there is that they are savages, as you have been taught by media to believe they are.
In Hollywood, for the longest time, and even today, people of color only got the bad guy roles, as bit part criminals, dope addicts, etcetera. It's getting better, but media still portrays people of color essentially criminally insane.
Yes, I've experienced hatred at the end of a fist, but it was only a fraction of the pain our society has dealt to a portion of its own. Lynching still happens. If hasn't gone away. Our society has been treating people of color as less than human since this nation began. That's why laws were enacted, to try to break that cycle.
Yet, here we are, still there.
I post these things because I'm angry. You don't get to treat fellow humans this
way, not if I have anything to say about it.
Awesome post, Don.
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