A tweaked point of View

The copied post here is from Myspace. Read the bottom for my view.

400 years or slavery, a few hundred more of inequality, degridation, and second class citizenship required the african-american population to band together for safety and strength to make any advancement against a white majority that actively embraced lynching as an exceptable way to deal with "problem niggers"

Countless tribes of native americans were mercelessly slaughtered for no other reason than land greed in the "name of god" by our white american ancestors.

The west coast had already been populated, built up and owned by Mexico, when we sent in US troops to kill them all and claim the land as our "divine right"

There are millions of lives lost and thousands of horrific acts that have been commited by American citizen who so completely sure that they were right and everyone else was wrong.

There are good reasons that we have to deal with the realities of racism now. We did not create racism, but we did help hone it to perfection. There will be years of ramifications for future generations to deal with. But, this email that you are spreading around does not help promote brotherhood. It re-draws boundary lines and help stir up hatred. Is that your goal?

We can all have pride and be comfortable in our own skin when we start to learn to be color blind and not continue to divide, exclude, and point blame at one another for a problem that we all share and we are all responsible for fixing.


----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Laura
Date: Apr 20, 2007 8:50 AM


You call me, "redneck" ,"hillbilly", "slacker" , "Cracker", "Honkey", "Whitey", "Gringo" and you think it's OK.

...But when I call you porch monkey, coon,jiggaboo, Kike, sand nigger, rag head ,Towelhead, WOP, Camel Jockey, Gook, slant eyes or Chink you call me a racist.

-You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

-You have the United Negro College Fund.

-You have Martin Luther King Day.

-You have Black History Month.

-You have Cesar Chavez Day.

-You have Yom Hashoah

-You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi

-You have the NAACP.

-You have BET.


-If we had WET(white entertainment television) ...we'd be racist.

-If we had a White Pride Day... you would call us racist.

-If we had white history month... we'd be racist.

-If we had an organization for only whites to "advance" our lives... we'd be racist.

-If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships...you know we'd be racist.

-In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights...you would call us racist.

-Did you know that some high school students decided to make a club for only the white students because the other ethnicities had them... they all got sent to court for being racist but the african-american, Latino, and Asia clubs were not even questioned.

-You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.



I am white.

I am proud.
But, you call me a racist.



Why is it that only whites can be racists?


Now watch, I'll be a racist for posting this

So what? no one will re post this for fear of being called racist



if you think its true re-post it saying "I'm not racist but its true"


Ok so wow someone was either personally attacked or saw something they felt compelled enough to write this about. I only read this because one of my friends posted it. So WTF over. I agree that there is an oddity with the fact that there a few "Ethnic" organizations designed for the advancements of those ethnic groups but I don't have a single issue with any of them. I think that this original posters question to themselves would be "WHY". Why does the NAACP exist why does equal opportunity exist. Why would there need to be a "white entertainment channel"? I think what people forget about is that if it were not for those organizations we would not be anywhere near the level of divirsification as we are now. Remember that 60 years ago there was something called the Holocaust, there are still people alive that lived thru that and will remind people like this that not everyone will just lay their guns down and go hug their supposed enemy. The holocaust and the civil rights movement happened for a reason, some people hate other people. The good thing is that their have been enough strong people to make a difference. We are more acceptable in todays age than ever before there is more equality than ever before. But don't get headstrong because we are still nowhere near where we need to be. The world is still filled with hatred and unacceptance. I would love to be alive when the need for some of those organizations is no longer needed because we as a society accept one another for who they are not what they look like or what we perceive people to represent. My question to everyone is are you making the right step are you looking past the skin and into the person? What are you teaching your kids? The kids are the next generation of difference makers on what side will they make a difference?

Peace Out!