The issue of race and racism, of course is completely tied
to each person’s identity. And this thing is constantly examined and reinforced
in some ways by every human being. When we react to another person, or group of
peoples similar in skin-hue, across the spectrum, in positive or negative judgments
based on exterior appearance; this reaction is a feel-do, a reaction
disconnected from reason, but probably hard-wired into most of us since birth.
Aspects of our racial past and future thoughts, values and abilities may break
out of our breast according to the dictates of one’s identity.
Due to this fulcrum of identity we each share in common
regardless of our complexion; these color issues tend to aggregate along with
cultural characteristics and geographic origin considered. Thus one can never
reliably assume the character, disposition, intentions, talent, education or
desires of any other person simply by appearance. This aspect of difference is
the very thing that at last proves race to be a misnomer both in biological and
in human terms. For truly the infinite and un-guessable differences among
individuals, within any group, result in great similarities between every type
of persons; when equated with one another.
Further, factors that distort this perception chiefly
include considerations of peace, justice and poverty. Aspects of security,
education, advancement, human development; physical, mental and emotional,
including all expressions made and received bearing on or determining
individual intake or participation in those three chief considerations has had
on each personality.
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He is you and she is too.
We all drink at the
Same fucked up well
of chance and happenstance
where good cannot be well
distinguished from bad,
poverty and fortune are
equivalent terms; positive
and negative outcomes for the
lucky and unlucky alike.
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Racism is real until it is fake. I am tend to travel more along the path of realizing that we all have feelings/dispositions and that to express them whenever we can, even if we find ourselves scared, means something. Thus for all racism/sexism/bigotry I like to think all of them as differing tools of communication unto which the individual is trying to use as much as they can in any situation to describe how they feel and if their expression does seem to carry racist/sexist or otherwise "bad" undertones those "bad" undertones might b be just what makes the expression as-understood in the first place and to take any of those racist/sexist expressions away would be to dilute the sum of the thing, the expression itself...
ReplyDeleteTake that how you want to I guess!