Let's End RacismI'm one of those silly idealists and one of those people who have
ideas that are often not taken seriously, and I just wanted to say some
things and maybe talk about some of my dreams, haha, let myself have a
total MLKJ moment. First, I have these dreams and visions.
I've
had this one when I walked into a room and everyone in the room had the
exact same skin color, I walked out and it was all the same. Everywhere
I went the skin color was the exact same. I finally asked someone what
was going on and someone told me that we all had the same skin color.
That we all became one people as generations upon generations realized
that unimportance of skin color as they have the color of hair and the
color of someone's eyes. It was absolutely a beautiful feeling to wake
up, and it has been a huge inspiration as I face so many people who
still feel that race plays such a huge part in what makes a person who
they are. Secondly, we are so concerned with racism, but we never
face the root issues involved in racism. We act on experiences. Those
that are actually experienced first-hand and also those experiences
passed on from others. The first group, those who've had
first-hand experience, are the ones who are the only ones who have any
right to feel any kind of racial tension, although it isn't actually
right. I know of those who won't enter a specific part of town because
there are so many "black" people and they've had personal experience of
gang-based aggression and was assaulted. I know of those who are
"black" who have actually been threatened and attacked by those who are
"white" based on some kind of suspected insult that never even took
place. I know of people of every shade of color who have experienced
first-hand some kind of aggression from another person of another skin
color. The second group, those who based their race issues on
learned experiences, those are the ones who've read or heard about
injustices such as genocide, racism, slavery, oppression and feel that
those things greatly affect them to the point that they'd base even
hateful feelings on those -- technically non-experienced -- experiences. The
first and most important part to ending racism is to understand where
your race-based aggressions or uncertainties stem from.
If you
belong to the second group, you simply need to learn to let go. People
of all faiths, races, genders, and ages have experienced some kind of
prejudice, oppression, genocide, racism, etc. If everyone held what has
happened to their ancestors against those whose ancestors were the
offender, the world would be in even worse shape than it is now.
If
you belong to the first part, you still have to learn the importance of
your own experiences. You may not realize it, but those who act with
such racial close-mindedness and aggression, normally have some other
kind of experience to back up their feeling just as you do. When does
the cycle end? I'm demanding that it END NOW! Those who act
in ways that are racially explicit need to be stopped, all of them! We
do this through education and love. It seems silly to say love to many,
but it's true. If someone is looking at you like you might steal
something, be so nice that it even confuses them! Offer to help. Don't
get so offended that you want to yell or beat someone up, show that the
racism of others doesn't have a hold on you. So how am I really
suggesting end racism? By not letting it have a hold on your. It
doesn't matter what you've experienced, people have the capabilities of
change, but we have to be the change we want to see. So stop complaining and do something. ALL OF YOU. | 
