Really People?

           This week I am going to touch base on a topic that I’m sure people are getting sick of hearing about…Racism. Well I think that some people, not all, are just not getting it. My friend that I mentioned in my previous post, Kendra (http://kendracandraw.blogspot.ca/), a nice Filipino girl that goes to my school, is having problems with her parents as I mentioned. The reason you may ask is the fact that her boyfriend is black, half black but still.

            Now I talked to my family friend, Barb, about this and she said that our spirits choose our parents to learn certain lessons. Maybe her lesson is to stand up for herself, I don’t know.

            But the point is that racism is a huge issue in this multicultural world, and it’s very freakin stupid. It’s the 21 century people, I think that we should pull up our big boy/girl panties and take off the diapers. Stop acting like children and get over it. It’s supposed to be the person’s character that determines the people that like them and that not so much like them, not the color of their skin or the language that they speak that determines that for us.  But unfortunately people just can’t get passed the appearance thing.

            Just think that if you were in a room blindfolded with a whole bunch of people, who would you go to? Take away the first thing that someone judges someone by and actually get to know the person for who they are and not what they look like.

            Please take the time to think about the friends that you choose to surround yourself with. Think of what drawn you to them in the first. I’m sure that their appearance played a role. Believe I know, I’ve seen it, I’ve done and I’m sure that you have too.

            Something that bothers me about this society that we live in is that when talking about different ethnicities and cultures people, and I have done this too, use the turn race. Why? The only real race that I can think is the human race, there are just different cultures within it. Just like other animals. Such as a cheetah and a house cat, technically they are both under the cat family.

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War" -Bois, W. E. B. Du