As I said in my last post, I’m appalled at the level of racism and bigotry in these United States and throughout the world. I’m ashamed of my white ancestors, I’m offended by their actions and can’t conceive what moral or ethical values they thought they possessed when they would consider another race of human beings inferior to themselves.
I do not in any way or form condone terrorism, but when you compare terrorism to racism, I feel racism is far worse than terrorism. Both acts are truly the acts of cowards but the difference is that terrorist hate because they feel they’re fighting a true enemy and racists hate because they feel they’re superior to another race of people. If you sit back and think about the crimes committed against people of African decent over the last four hundred plus years, it is sickening. Imagine being kidnapped from your family, herded on to ships, transported to a foreign country and then being held prisoner for the rest of your life, all because your skin was a different color. You were not only held prisoner, you were forced to do hard labor, from sun up to sun down. Then during the slave owners spare time he would bestow upon his slaves, beatings, torture, flogging, rape and God knows what other cruelties. These injustices on black people were not just perpetrated by the average white citizen, it ran all the way up through the political ranks, right up to some of our more famous presidents.
Finally slavery was abolished in 1865 but the racism didn’t end. People of African decent were still beaten, tortured and lynched by racist pigs throughout the country. Black people were segregated from white people in every facet of there lives, they were not allowed to eat in the same restaurants as white people, they couldn’t use the same restrooms or drink from the same drinking fountains, they couldn’t go to the same churches, the theaters had separate entrances, the first floor marked for “whites only” and the upstairs back entrances marked for “colored” people and this was still a common scene in the mid 1900’s. I could go on and on, but the bottom line is racism needs to be seriously addressed in this country and not just by black civil rights activists, white people need to take a more active role on a larger scale. We need to evolve into a more ethical, civilized society, we need to establish harmony amongst our people before we reach the point of no return. Just imagine this subject matter in our future history books, “The War of All Wars, The Former United States 21st Century Civil War.” So what’s your point of view?
Lazarus