Calling All Floydians Part 2

When a white man kills a black man, it is called self-defense but when a black man kills a white man it is called murder.

When a black man kills a black man, it is called gang violence but when a white man kills a white man it is called an accident.

When a Muslim kills a white man, he is called a terrorist but when a white man kills a Muslim he is written off as mentally unstable and shipped to a nice psychiatrist facility.

I don’t think we can call what happened to George Floyd an act of racism.

Why?

Because, my dear readers, racism is the belief that one race is superior to another or OTHERS.  Even in this time of COVID19, you won’t see the police trying to gun down a Chinese guy for trying to pass on a suspected fake 20 bucks.

I don’t think we can call any of this racism.

It’s only focused on us blacks. It’s like they’ve got a problem against us alone. If you should search up racism anywhere, you would see that it’s focused on black people alone. And what’s worse is that some of us seem to accept it. We just go about our businesses ignoring people who give us stink eyes or worse. Is this the kind of place you want your children to grow up in?! A place where blacks gotta hide or use bleaching cream to be accepted into society. Na fam. It does not work like that. We all complain about it but do not do anything about it. The problem is, we have been beaten down for so long that we are afraid to stand up. And I am not just talking about blacks alone. Every country, nation, race, and people that have been pushed to the wall should learn to dig their heels in and say “Enough!”. But back to the case at hand.

We do not know what is causing all this hostility and bad blood. I mean, if anything, we should be the ones saying, “No whites!” cause I don’t know about you but I certainly remember being told about slavery and how some black people spent their whole lives living in chains, forced to build, slave and for some rich people, do unimaginable things.

What is worse is that racism is not even a recent thing, it has become more of a tradition and movement. Look at this age. Unless you are telling me that these policemen have lived for a thousand years and have personal vendettas against all blacks, they were most likely told that blacks were just not to be regarded as mates and all.

I personally feel that the main thing behind all this ‘anti-black’ shit is fear.

 Everyone is to blame for the persistence of racism. The first category of people that is to blame is the leaders. The leaders, and especially the majority whites, have seen the occurrences of racial discriminations, but have put little or no efforts to eliminate or curb racism. Leaders are at a better position to institute laws that curtail racism and to ensure that these laws are enforced successfully. However, they have showed little concern toward racism. The black population leaders are few and thus cannot achieve to push for such laws since they are shut before they materialize. However, they are partly to blame for racism since there are other mechanisms they can pursue to guarantee that laws are out in place to address this problem. For instance, they can sensitize people on their civil rights and the possibility of holding mass actions as afforded by the constitution.

The second category of people that is to blame is the citizens. The whites embrace supremacy from the time they are young. The comments their parents make about other races strengthen racism and reinforce it as a good thing to perpetuate. On the other hand, the blacks have taken law on their hands and formed retaliatory gangs that perpetrate racially motivated crimes against the whites thus strengthening persistence of racism. The police are to blame for racial profiling of the minority, racially motivated killings, and brutality. Courts are to blame for failure to reinforce the existing laws by incarcerating the minority without conclusive evidence and dismissing cases that are brought by the minority without due consideration.

The third category people who contribute to racism are the parents. Children learn from their parents at a young age. In places where racism is prevalent, these hateful trends are passed from one generation to the other and it starts at homes. When children learn that their parents are discriminatory and hateful of another race, they take it to themselves as a good thing to do. The derogatory remarks that parents make targeting other races in front of their children are highly effective in perpetuating similar trends among their children. As such, children perpetuate the same in other social places such as schools and even form groups which consist of similar race members to propagate these hateful trends against the target race effectively. When these children become adults, they propagate similar trends to their children and thus racism persists in the society and becomes a deeply rooted social problem that is difficult to eliminate.

I don’t know, maybe its just me, but I feel it’s the fact that we blacks, people they had put down as slaves, decided that “You know what, there’s no reason why we gotta do what they say anymore. We might have different colored skin, but we are still human beings got to them. Maybe its because they also realized that we might turn out to be just as good if not even better than them. After all, behind the construction of some of the most popular landmarks and monuments, blacks are there. So, I know that I am not God and I do not have the answers, but I feel that there must be something we can do. 


Signing out (for now),

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