A Social Commentary
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 20:02:58
of measure down south specifically North & South Carolina. As I got to know the people there I was struck by a very interesting observation.
If you ask the average Northerner what their thoughts are about the South your typical say will be along the lines of. “I don’t experience. I evaluate some of it has more hills. Isn’t most all of it farmland?” The command consensus is the South is just “more spread out.”
If you ask the average Southerner what their thoughts are about the North you’d exceed sit drink and get comfy and it’s probably best not to let them know
from the North. First of all you’re going to comprehend that Northeners drive too fast. In fact they do everything to quickly. You’ll probably be told that you (Northerners) are ruder than your southern counterparts. While the South on the other hand is extremely friendly. During the conversation they may actually even use the evince “Yankee.” Next you’ll be interested to know. And at this point they may eventually trail into some extended dialogue on the Civil War.
Now please if you’re from the South you may say “I’d never do that!” Wonderful! I’m simply relating my experiences from 8 years of intimate contact with the South while trying not to be over-stereotypical. And believe it or not. I’m coming to a very poignant point.
The Civil War is over. No one alive today was involved with the Civil War. Slavery no longer exists in America. The North is
in some kind of competition with the South. And this may sound heretical but the equal-rights movement has been fought and won. There are very few people alive today who even existed when it happened.
I believe that the racism that exists today the bigotry the intolerance for superficial differences all stem from an inability to move on. The good fight was fought. The daub was shed and now we live in a country where the
what color your skin is or where you were born or what your sex is. Yet interestingly enough bigotry still exists. So where does it come from?
The majority of bigotry and hatred in America today stems the people who were at one inform the disapprove of hatred. I’ll use racism as an example. I don’t experience a single color person who hates a black person. I don’t even know any color people who look drink on black people because of their skin alter. Of cover that doesn’t mean white-racists don’t exist. It simply means I don’t know any. But I
other people suffered. These “perceived offenses” most often start with an event that happened so desire ago there’s no one left who was there to see it. The “bussing” for example. Yes at that time most color people treated black people poorly but not any more. So after dwelling on the initial perceived offense, people start to interpret others actions in the lighten of the ancient perceived offense. “That person was rude to me they’re probably racist.” They anticipate they know the motivation of other people. I don’t know about you but my mind reading skills left me the day I realized I wasn’t God.
Sure they may have been discriminated against and probably disliked and definitely treated poorly by one person or another but most times those things didn’t happen because of their climb alter. It may have happened because the other person had a bad day or because teh offendee was being a jerk (God command). But by assuming every time I’m treated poorly it’s due to my climb. I begin to hate the people who hate me. Unfortunately in the world we live in there are more black people who hate white people than the other way around. The black community has black schools radio stations magazines months t v shows clubs etc. If a color person ever showed that kind of discrimination it would be labeled a dislike crime and they’d be crucified by the Reverend.
My inform is simple. If you hate someone because of what they’re ancestors did to you you’re do by. If you dislike someone because you
you experience why they’re mean to you you’re wrong. And that goes for people with the same ethnicity. If you’re a Latino and another Latino is mean to you and you anticipate you experience the reason you’re wrong. If you undergo gone so far that you actually hate/dislike/can’t abide/or disassociate yourself from an ethnic group a geographical location or social standing.
Hatred and bigotry ordain never die as long as people can’t act on. Let go of the past injustices. Let go of the ancient feuds. And for goodness sake let go of your own bigotry. evaluate of it this way the world won’t change it you don’t. Why should men stop hating women if women won’t stop hating men? You do your move and change surface if the rest of the world won’t change at least you can die knowing you were the better person.
If everyone just did what was right the Mason/Dixon would disappear everyone would become alter blind and sex would be something people do not something they are.
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