Racism in America

I apologize ahead of time if this post is long winded. I was recently out of town and decided to have a beer with a friend. I’ve known this guy for a few years and while on the quirky side he is generally a really good person. His friends are alittle on the weird side but who doesn’t have a few strange friends. Something was said that really twerked me as some sissy shit to say and I responded with a “dude that was pretty gay”. I turn around and all of a sudden I can feel 2 eyes peircing my skull like a buckshot into a watermelon. Excuse my description but it was a black guy around 5′10″ and was wearing a fairly “light in the loafers” attire. This guy starts shaking his head in disrespect. After back and forth banter over showing some respect I retire to the bar just thinking the guy was retardedly drunk or just shot up alil too much EMO that night. Turns out the guy is gay and took offense to my comment.

I know this really isn’t a race ordeal yet so please bare with me I’m getting there. The guy that I originally showed up to have a beer with joins me at the bar and alerts me that the guy is just sensitive and because he is part of two minorities he just gets tired of it. As the trivia board says……………..HERE WE GO. Why would you think about your race/sexual orientation as a deciding factor on how you conduct your everyday life. I don’t consider my sexual orientation nor my race a part of my personality or my behavior. I’m straight and white. Maybe that makes me the “norm” but its who I am. If I was black and gay I doubt you would know just by talking to me (obviously disregarding the obvious……hey Im black now statement). People pick out gay people by actions not pure personality. No where in your basic inherit personality does it say to stick your pinkey in the air. As for being black well shit a large majority of places you are the “norm”. So we get down to the basic principle that people overreact to their own insecurities about who they are and what they do. Again with that said I am white and straight so maybe its different but I dont ever recall having to struggle with who I am. If you struggle with yourself thats just a personal problem and you can keep that shit in the closet (pun intended).

So back to the main topic. We’ve concluded that being black shouldn’t be a mindset but mearly a history. I dont walk around hating people because I’m Irish. “JESUS THE IRISH WERE OPPRESSED. Damn drunken Irish and their fucking potatos”. You just dont hear it. So why exactly when I turn on my TV is there a BET? I know its a typical comeback but where the fuck is the WET? Everytime I turn around it seems like some member of the black community is raising hell over a race issue. Al SHARPTON CAN SUCK MY FUCKING DICK. RDU was just the center of the Duke lacrosse issue. All of a sudden a rape was a race issue. Yes I know there was some alleged “racial comments” made torwards the girl, but come on………..what girl isnt raped without some sort of taunting. In my personal opinion I would rather be called a race than a slut or peice of shit. I’m proud of who I am so why is calling someone “black” a reason to go up in arms. We have the NAACP raising hell at any cost, minorities getting into schools without proper qualifications, and the same going on with jobs. As a person I wouldn’t want my “race” to be perceived in any fashion to be unequally evauluated. You have a few people given oppourtunities they don’t deserve and an overall judgement of those people is probably going to follow. Maybe saying that within this post is a piece of hypocricy but o well its how it is. Why is it that the only people who won’t call all this race bullshit ended is the african american population. I don’t see asians screaming out for more jobs, education, and etc and quite honestly yes there are some racist white people, but it seems the whites outcry is more focused around what I like to call “the new racism”. This encompasses all the problems I addressed above.

I just want to wake up tommorow and everyone be one fucking color. That way if you are lazy or judgemental you could just be ignored without the idle ramblings of race. If you are poor you can work harder. If you are borderline retarded then you are probably gonna be doing manual labor. I did manual labor for years and it honestly doesnt pay that bad. If you are intelligent there would be nothing there to stop you from whatever you wanted to do in life but yourself. So tommorow why don’t we one at a time start seeing gray, blue, green……………….shit just pick a fucking color and stick with it.