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Gun’s don’t kill people, people kill people. If a person shot another person with a gun, should the person who sold the gun (legally) be punished? No.
Racism, another good thing about it…
Aiyah, racism. What a complicated subject.
Scheiße!
Merda!
Kuso!
Racism… I really had a problem with racism before. I do not anymore. Has the world changed? no. Some of my family still hate it. It happens to them.
Racism is a really complicated cause and effect. I would say yea, there are racists I myself used to use slurs all the time. I was young. I didn’t mean to make anyone sad.. the world as I knew it was doing it, so being a follower, I just followed along. When I was young, I never had the thoughts that some races are bad, others good. Growing up, I made friends of all shapes, sizes, and colors.
However, the first time I went to college, I “experienced” it from the other side, as a victim. I had to learn fear and anger. I would think, “Who’d hire me even if I got good grades, I’m of a lower race.” mm.. I have to disclose that during that time, although I felt emotionally destroyed in this way, most of it was from my own thinking. I had not yet been diagnosed as mentally ill.
Becoming more confident in life, my behavior has changed. If you look at someone who percieves the world is racist, you’ll notice that their body language is set out to fight or flight (fear).
Your inner world creates your outer world. To fight racism in our world, you’ll have to fight every racist you meet. Because of this thinking, you’ll challenge everyone on it. As you look for racists, you will find them.
Instead of putting on a fake smile as you leave your house, you’ll get into a mode something like:
Anti-Racism Warrior
Behavior: Combative, competitive.
Emotion: Fear. (fight or flight)
Thought: “I’ll show you that I’m more than a < racial slur >!”
This is known as: Internalized racism or internalized oppression.
Anyway. The reason why I share this is because…
Today?! This morning, I did something I never did before.
Instead of putting on the boxing gloves to fight the forces of evil, I got myself ready for something else.
New Friends / Networker
Behavior: Reaching out to find a new friend.
Emotion: Interested, happy and curious.
Thought: Friends are easy to make, and I want to be your friend.
After I did this inner work, I called the pharmacy. A girl woman picked up, and sure enough, she was racist to me. 🙁
Just joking, she was quite pleasant-sounding and playful, like a friend would.
Like a lyric from a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers:
Talking about my thoughts ’cause they must grow
Cock my brain to shoot my load
I’m on my porch ’cause I lost my house key
Pick up my book I read Bukowski
Can I get another kiss from you
Kiss me right here on my tattoo
And that is what I discovered today. If you give that thought out, it will come back. Instead of racism (fear) I thought of making a new friend (love).
Both work just the same.
From Oprah’s Book “What i Know for Sure”
She writes of a time when she heard Reverend Jesse Jackson speak to her school at an assembly. Since then she had always done her best.
He told us that what What we owed ourselves was excellence.
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism,” he said. “Therefore, be excellent.”
– Reverend Jesse Jackson