Sometimes people see racism in something that wasn't at all racist. Racism comes in all colors and creeds.
If we are going to heal the wound of racism, we have to make it that everyone is treated with respect and not judged because of the color of their skin or their religion.
I find whites are being openly hated and the people doing it are not being punished, fired from their jobs or being turned into a criminal like when a white person expresses any shadow of a criticism towards anyone of another race, especially blacks.
It's especially frustrating when whites are accused of such things when racism had nothing to do with their actions such as being accused of crossing the street when a black man is walking towards you in the opposite direction. You dare cross the street than it's automatically assumed you're being racist. Not that you just wanted to cross the street because you wanted to cross the street as you would have if it had been a white man or woman walking towards you.
Also, I don't like being accused of slavery. It's assumed because I'm a white American, my ancestors had slaves. Which is not true as it isn't for millions of other whites in America who's families came only a few generations ago. A lot of Irish Americans in this country. I don't think any of them were here for the slavery period.
My point is-when someone keeps accusing someone of being racist at any thing they do and there was nothing racist about their actions but then you see these same people talking trash about whites very openly and being applauded for it...that's not going to heal any wounds. If anything, it's only going to make them bigger and sorer.
I'm not saying some whites aren't racist...I know they are.
And I also know all blacks aren't racist towards whites either.
It's a sticky subject. But it does work both ways. I think as long as human beings will be human beings...they will always find a reason to hate on another human being, even if it's just because they're wearing something that doesn't match.
It's just the way humans are.
I wish we could heal the wounds too but sometimes I'm afraid I'm going to become racist because I don't like being blamed for things I had no part of and being made to feel paranoid because I want to cross the street but omg, there's a black guy walking towards me and he's going to think...
I guess blacks have gone through this for many decades so I shouldn't complain.
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