I'd like to call bullshit on most of it.
Yes, racism exists. It is pretty much as old as Adam and Eve. Quite frankly, just like most -isms, it's probably not going to go away.
So it seems, to me anyway, that the issue shouldn't be so much that racism exists, but how we, all of us no matter color of skin or circumstance in life, deal with it.
See, I wasn't raised to be a racist or a bigot. I was raised to see people as individuals, not their skin color. And that is how I have raised my kids.
But I have been accused of being racist because I don't automatically back down and apologize for being white. Why should I? My skin color is an accident of birth..my parents are white, therefore it stands to reason that I am also white.
Why should I hate on my color, which is nothing I had any control over? Why should I apologize for the fact that slavery happened? That things like Little Rock and the KKK happened? I don't ask for apologies for the fact that coal mine owners oppressed their workers, even though my poppaw was a miner. There is not a person alive today that was either a slave or slave oowner prior to the Civil War. So yeah I hate like hell it happened, just like I despise the fact the Holocaust happened... But it doesn't make me guilty of it, nor responsible for it.
Nor am I responsible for things like Ferguson. I'm not the idiot who committed a crime and got shot by a cop for refusing to.obey a direct order to stand down. Was the cop.right? I don't know...but I do.know that if I feel threatened and I.have the means, I will defend myself...and while protest is great, when done correctly..peacefully...what happened in Ferguson was neither... Nor was it a protest..it was a wholesale excuse by those purporting to be supporting the family of the, quite honestly, thug...to loot and abuse, and steal and rape and even kill.
Call me wrong, call me stupid, call me a blkeeping right wing nut job of anything but a white woman. You wouldn't be the first..but people need to quit looking for scapegoats and start accepting responsibility for their actions.
Try starting there, instead of blaming every one else for your poor choices.
