You do it behind close doors, behind their backs, amongst your friends, in front of your children so that you are not called out on your ignorance because you know what you are doing is wrong.
How easy is it to hide behind your culture and say that in your country everyone just hates black people... really? It's easy to hide behind society's "rules" and say that's just the way the world is. So that means you have no discerning power? You can't question those that came before you and say that racist attitudes are wrong?
You will perpetuate hate and worsten our society as you sit there and blindly discriminate and contaminate your children with hate. You will teach them to be ignorant, to be hateful like you, your will hurt them because they live in a multi-color/ multi-cultural society that will not be able to understand because of you... but you will not stand in front of a person of color and explain to them where your ignorant judgements come from.
That to me, is cowardice.

I liked this...made me think about my grandfather's side of the family. The younger ones on that side are all rather normal, but the older ones who all grew up in rural South Carolina would definitely fit on the left side of the picture.
ReplyDeleteThanks Patrick... it's interesting how this things still happen today.
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