tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post5364147812743915817..comments2023-10-17T03:15:16.029-05:00Comments on Blowing San #1: I don't know what it's like, but then again neither do you....Subvethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523683273450353313noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-53350393666119174952008-03-20T23:58:00.000-05:002008-03-20T23:58:00.000-05:00OBTW, I also know that it is "by definition imposs...OBTW, I also know that it is "by definition impossible for a black person to be racist because the definition of racism is what the white man has done to hold the black people back."<BR/><BR/>heard that a time or 2000.MightyMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563721884001643857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-17024333754793296342008-03-20T23:56:00.000-05:002008-03-20T23:56:00.000-05:00shall I go down my list of things I know?? Here's...shall I go down my list of things I know?? <BR/><BR/>Here's a brief (very brief as there are many) insight.<BR/><BR/>I know what it's like to be sitting in a freshman HS Spanish class when the black substitute teacher lectures the class for the entire hour on racism...then when I ask an honest question (which I didn't realize till adulthood would refute her whole stance) am told that I'm "too racist to understand"<BR/><BR/>Oh, and I know exactly what he meant when I told my black coworker where I grew up and he said "that must have been hard for you...why on earth did your family move there?"<BR/><BR/>oh, I know a few things myself. yes I do.MightyMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563721884001643857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-6440248890965121352008-03-20T10:53:00.000-05:002008-03-20T10:53:00.000-05:00Have the values of love and tolerance depreciated ...Have the values of love and tolerance depreciated so much we are ready to discard them outright? I recall a friend once pulling me along to do what was right.<BR/>When I left the nearly all white world I was raised in and found myself a lonely white boy in Gary, IN, I noticed black people seemed to stare at me. At first I thought it was because I was so out of place. I later noticed the same kind of stare from blacks when I was not out of place and came to believe these were stares of racism. I thought this was a form of intimidation and learned not to avert my gaze but to reflect the stare with a greeting of respect. I thought that if I showed respect it would be reflected. Sometimes it works but after so many years of seeing these as stares of hatred and becoming acquainted with the racism of blacks against whites, I now reflect these stares with a stare of mutual hatred.<BR/>It is with great sorrow that I admit I harbor ill feelings against blacks. I use the most derogatory term they use so freely among themselves in song and dialogue. I find myself ranting against them as a whole people rather than just those who have wronged me. It is easy for me to understand their hatred of me in terms of how I came to hold this hatred I have for them. Considering how much more they have been hurt by me than I have hurt them excuses neither them nor me.<BR/>How could a fellow who was raised a Christian have become such a monstrous vessel of hatred and animosity? I never made much of an effort to show them respect or treat them as brothers, but in my interaction with them I often found myself as hurt as you were Subvet. When people are always stepping on our toes we tend to get out of ourselves and into someone we don’t want to become. My own daughter believes I am a racist. I don’t want her to continue to believe this, so I am going to quit being one. At this troubled time in my life I need to set aside these feelings and get serious about not carrying around so much anger and hatred and resentment.<BR/>I for sure won’t vote for Obama but it’s not because he’s black. I just can’t tolerate democrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36003957.post-9040040796969525322008-03-20T08:01:00.000-05:002008-03-20T08:01:00.000-05:00Happy Easter for you Subvet, and also for you fami...Happy Easter for you Subvet, and also for you family :)Jeevanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063201530500784222noreply@blogger.com