Do we have the same opportunities?

Often a racist white person or ignorant to reality at best type of white person will say whites and blacks will have the same the opportunities in life. This is their attempt to discredit racism and to pretend it does not exist. They use people like Obama as their prime example saying that if he could get presidency then there is no stopping anyone. But what makes that argument false is the fact that the assumption everyone has the same opportunities is false.

Not only do whites and blacks each as a race have different opportunities in life, but even within the race. Another black man will not be elected president for probably another century. Obama's presidency has shown just how racist white america still is, and is even showing how many are reverting back to overt Jim Crow era behaviors. Many have become ultra-paranoid.

You can't say an inner city school is the same as a white suburban upper class school. In fact, that would only serve to show your ignorance and stupidity and lack of diversity and common sense if you sit there and actually say you can get the same opportunities from those same schools.

If you watch a movie like Freedom Writers, and see the kind of school there, under the false philosophy of having the same opportunities, would you willing go there rather than the school you go to already? Probably not, not if you know your school is better. And if you have to think or feel that your school is better, that obviously shows that you will not get the same opportunities.

One is only guaranteed death in life. That is the only thing everyone has.

Other than that, every single human is born with their own allotment of opportunities. It is up to that individual to take their given opportunities and make the most of them and take advantage of them. There are always going to be people who will try to guilt trip you out of your opportunities in a chance to better themselves over you...sometimes you have to be selfish and put yourself first and do not let others snatch up your opportunities.

There is no such thing as equality. Its something idealistic and in reality can actually hinder someone, because the real truth is if you are a person of color you will have to work twice as hard as a white person to get the half the results. Believing you are equal to that of a white person will actually put you at a disadvantage because then you do not take the necessary steps to put the playing field in your favor.

Its a dog eat dog world out there, its every person for themselves pretty much. No one has the same opportunities in life, it is best to find what yours are and make them work for you.

What the Anthony Sowell case proves...

somewhere between 8 to 10 if not more women were killed by a black man by the name of Anthony Sowell, all or most of those victims were black women.

The scary irony of this is that those bodies were only found by a single fluke, the fluke being that Sowell, a convicted rapist was not showing up to his parole officer.

To any black person this case is much more than a bunch of innocent women being murdered (and probably tortured too), this is about race and well not being rich.

If you look at the news often you will always see upper class white women as the headlines. Never do you hear about black women. Nancy Grace may occasionally spend half of her show talking about a black woman or black child, but often her show is too much to bear for most people as she often will interrupt her guests and ever since the birth of her child she has been more occupied about showing that child off than anything else.

The scary thing about this is that if you look at past serial killings, the toll number did not even get as high as the one in this case before news media was all over it. Yet we are only hearing about this case a dozen victims in.

This leaves the glaring question, where are the police and why were they not doing their job?

The amount of black people who trust the police to do their job is far and few. Most of us all know that the police aka the gestapo do not serve blacks, they certainly don't mind harassing them or humiliating them, but they are not there for you when you need them.

Poor people can almost say the same thing although for poor whites their ordeal still isn't as bad as the ordeal even a rich black person will probably endure.

There is a recurring theme with police these days, and thats how they are always unable to do things until its too late.

I once said on someone else's blog that if people want to get away with a crime or have a likelier chance of getting away with a crime, all they have to do is target black women. Black women are the least cared for by police and society and media itself.

Its scary how this many women can disappear and not a national outcry is even shown how many of these women's lives could have been saved had the police actually looked into the whole thing when it was happening.

Some would say just be glad he finally got caught. There is a good chance this guy will go to jail, not because he killed alot of women but because white society will jump at the chance to throw away any black person they can. In this case, I don't think any black person would care for the motives of a white person for having sentence him to jail as long as justice gets served for these women.

But in the end, it makes one think just how many people like Sowell are in your neighborhood. Its scary just how many rapists and molesters and other bad people live in one neighborhood alone. Why don't they tell the people of a neighborhood that a creep will be moving in so they can take any necessary precautions?

Its scary as a black woman myself knowing that I could be a victim and I have a great likely hood of being murdered by them and the culprit getting away with it.

Society is so stuck up on being ignorant about race that they let murderous dangerous people off the hook, doesn't anyone besides me see what is wrong with that picture?

I guess one shouldn't be surprised considering society's way of dealing with crime is not trying to nip the crime in the bud but trying to make the crime someone else's problem. (diverting the crime to another neighborhood or city, so the crime doesn't go away but it becomes someone else's problem).

White Denial

What is white denial?

White denial can be 1 of 2 things.

1. It can be the denying that someone they placed so highly on a pedestal can possibly be such a horrible person (such as a racist).
2. denying the the realities of racism.

But in this post I will talk about white denial in reference to the 1st definition. For a white person its extremely easy to look beyond someone's personality and to "forgive" them for it, especially when you are unaffected by their hateful personality.

You see, blacks and whites view people such as Disney, Ford, James Stewart, John Wayne, and even people like George Washington differently than whites for a reason. White people think blacks should "get over" the fact that such people were full blown racists. To white people, they were just products of their time. In a sense, they treat it the same way premarital sex and pregnancy is treated today, they pretty much find it socially acceptable and find no reason to balk at the horridness of it.

I once read a blog that talked about white peoples brand of patriotism and how its unrealistic and borderline nationalistic (like the Neo Nazis). In a sense, their idolizing people of the past is one in the same.

You see, the problem lies in the fact that they do not look at these people from a realistic point of view. They only want to pay attention to the good they have done. For a person of color, they are not afforded the luxury of "forgive and forget". Its hard to watch a movie with someone who pretty much would hate your very existence.

You can't get over something that you have to live with everyday. White people are often in denial about just how horrible of a person all these and many more are. They feel its not important because they came from an era in which it was okay to be that way. But that is who they are, and should we really be forgiving them for something they are not even sorry for? Shouldn't we hold them accountable?

The real question is, should people really be idolizing these people to the point that they see them as more than the human they are? Its because people view these people as such "greats" that end up causing controversy later on because people don't want to hear the cold truth that these so called greats were not so great in personality and life they were only great at what their job was.

In my opinion those who have to deny the truth or try to excuse it, more than likely condone such beliefs. I mean really, there are people who say John Wayne is not racist even though he had said full fledged racist things in an article of Playboy, I mean it was so clear that only a racist could possibly deny such a thing.

We all have a right to know if someone was dabbling with racism, I mean if you are going to make your views known, then why hide it years later?

It is still yet impossible to figure out what to do once you discover such horrid news. Some people of color boycott any of their things (but one would seriously be up a creek if they did, the soda Coca Cola was created by a stupid Confederate soldier, yep it was created by a bad guy).

Others though have learned to separate the item from the person yet at the same time look at it all realistically. And maybe that is where the answer lies. Instead of looking at someone for only the good they did and ignoring who they really are and putting them so high on the pedestal that you look at them as beyond human, maybe its best to start looking at them realistically. In otherwords, stop with those stupid countdowns of greats because the truth is these so called greats, really are not that great. Even Lincoln, the slave-freer, had a racist dark side to him.

In the end, rather than try to deny that these people were racists and in some cases worse (such as Lindbergh who was also an adulterer), its better to own to the fact that this is who they are. Most of them were vocal enough that to deny it is pretty much intentionally trying to shut out reality, they were proud enough to say it out loud then, so why hide it now? They made their beliefs known so why try to cover it up? It does no one good trying to hide who someone is. People need to get over trying to praise all these people for things in such unrealistic idolizing ways. You set yourself up for disappoint when you hold people over a pedestal.

What is White Privilege?

Most whites will deny that white privilege exists. In fact most whites will only look at it from the view of finances. They do not look at the true extent of what white privilege is. It does indeed exist, and it won't be going away for a very long time because the reality is, whites like that privilege.

The privilege isn't necessarily the financial gains your family may have gotten from slavery or cheap labor (such as sharecropping) all done on the backs of black people. But the privilege comes from being in a majority.

I will only mention a few as the list can get extensive. Some of the privleges are ease from discrimination. You do not have to worry about being followed in a store (even though studies have shown whites shoplift more than blacks, it is blacks who are often hounded more and accused of shoplifting than whites). You do not have to worry about driving while black, or being accused of committing some convenient store robbery just because you share the same skin color as the culprit or because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

White people can trust the police, the police serve whites, they do not serve blacks. Blacks have a very valid reason in having very little trust in the police.

Whites are more likely to get paid more and hired more, in fact in one study they had 2 men with the same experience, the white men who had a record was hired over the black man with no jail record.

Blacks are still treated like second class citizens. It is shown through the court system just how true that is.

Blacks were forced to sacrifice their happines for that of whites. Whites still continue such happiness through their privelege. That privelege will never disappear, even though it may be slightly hindered by your own family's finances or how you dress or talk, for the most part you will never lose majority of it.

Things such as Affirmative action does not even bring blacks remotely close to what whites have, and therefore whites have no right to complain about it. Whites take their place in America for granted, one can only hope they lose it and get to see what life is really like for blacks. Its not easy, the fact is I don't think whites could survive what they put blacks through because whites never had to really experience turmoil as they were too busy torturing people and making them suffer.

Should blacks celebrate the 4th of July?

So I was reading a document in my history book for class, and the document (which I haven't finished reading yet as I have gotten side tracked) is written by Frederick Douglass who posed the question "what is the 4th of July to a slave" (well he didn't use those exact words).

And I realized something...black people celebrating the 4th of July is almost the same as a Native American celebrating Thanksgiving.

Of course for indians they probably do not celebrate July 4th either for slightly but ultimately similar reasons as black people.

But if you look, you will see many blacks celebrate this and thanksgiving (which you could also argue is a day blacks should not celebrate either) but you will only see far and few Indians celebrate these two holidays.

The question is why? There is no real answer other than the Indians and the blacks have had different experiences in America. The blacks were enslaved. The Indians were not but they were kicked out of their lands multiple times. Blacks do not live in reservations while most Native Americans do. Blacks kind of assimilated more into White culture than the Native Americans. While Blacks are highly underrepresented in the entertainment industry, Native Americans are even more underrepresented, in fact I would not be surprised if Indians from India are represented more. But blacks had to deal with Jim Crow, Indians did not.

For blacks, what does Thanksgiving and the 4th of July mean, or used to mean? Well Frederick Douglass argued why it was dumb for him to celebrate the 4th of July. Slavery was still happening and those so called rights do not apply to him or other slaves. And in today's time blacks are still treated like second class citizens.

Thanksgiving simply represents the fact that all these Europeans who came over brought along slaves, even if slavery was different than Post-Revolutionary war slavery, it was slavery nonetheless.

But the reasons for a black person to not celebrate these holidays is nowhere as deep of a reason for Native Americans.

Today almost everyone who celebrates these holidays could care less about the history behind it. Holidays exist only as an excuse for some to get drunk, for no school (or work depending on your career), to pig out on food, to maybe see family and etc. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days, because I like November and I like Autumn, and I love turkey and mashed potatoes. Almost all holidays today are consumer holidays, even Christmas. Maybe its a good thing for at least the 4th of July and Thanksgiving that the meaning of these days are somewhat forgotten.

But I must say its annoying when white people say you are being "unpatriotic" for not celebrating the 4th of July...I noticed that white peoples' brand of "patriotism" is actually dangerous for America, because its full of ignorance and hate. I personally only like eating hotdogs and seeing fireworks on the 4th of July, I honestly do not care for the holiday itself or for that matter its meaning. I didn't even celebrate it this year, its a throw-away holiday for me, heck I despise Valentine's Day yet give that holiday more recognition than the 4th of July.

In a mixed world, would racism exist?

You often hear mono-racial people who support interracial relationships boast the idea that "mixed kids are the future". Some have even gone as far to say that once everyone is mixed, racism will cease to exist.

But is this true or is this just wishful thinking?

For starters its going to take many centuries before America even gets to a point where it has a mixed majority. America may not even exist by then because it may be dismantled by its own racism and ignorance.

But in order for racism to thrive, there always has to be a distinct group, not necessarily in the majority (as South Africa proved through the Apartheid), but a powerful distinct group nonethless.

This group has to have enough power that they can control the media, entertainment, and anything else mainstream. Through having that control they can be biased in their own favor.

When you turn on the tv, you see whiteness. When you open a mainstream magazine, you see whiteness. When you go to countries like Japan and China and India you see countries that praise and favor whiteness because that is what they are exposed to. Those with power can and do ignore those without it.

But racism thrives off of the sense of superiority over others. It takes the "I am better than you" argument a step further by involving race and features (such as nose and hair).

So could racism exist amongst a society with people who are biracial? Yes.

You see, those who say no more than likely were only thinking of one mixed group, and on top of that they were probably thinking all mixed people look the same.

That is where you run into problems.

You see 10 years ago "biracial" meant black/white by default. Now there are other mixes, and even though most still think or assume black/white when they hear "biracial", the Mulatto mix no longer gets to own the word "biracial"....its only a matter of time before they come up with names for all these mixes.

But in a society of biracial people, you would have different mixes hating on each other for simply being different mixes. Its unknown who would have the most power...it could be Mulattoes for they have the longest mix history in the United States or it could be Eurasian because there is alot of them. But numbers don't mean anything. It all comes down to who has most power to control society.

Besides racism directed at one another for being of another mix, there will still be colorism issues within each mixed group. For mulattoes the denote biracial mix is having light brown skin and curly hair. But what if one strays from what is considered the "biracial norm" within their own group?

You have biracials like Jennifer Beals who looks white. And then you have the biracials of Karyn Parson's and Lisa Bonet's look. Parson has the more reddish brownish look while Bonet has the more yellowish brown look. Then you have biracials that look black.

I remember in a comment section on a video of Tyra, many where saying this one girl is not biracial because she looks flat out black. She was dark skinned. The episode was about hating half your side, and she hated her black side. Everyone kept saying her mother must have lied to her. But while that could be true, the reality is, it most likely isn't. Based on the genes of each parents, one can come out with little blackness visible while others can come out with extreme blackness visible.

For me, while I do have the typical light brown skin found in biracials, I heavily took after my father's black genes.

So there will always be that divide simply because racism goes hand in hand with having power and control.

What is domestic terrorism?

We all know what terrorism means. 9/11 paints a pretty good picture of that. But there is another term out there called "domestic terrorism". Domestic terrorism means terrorism that happens within your own country by citizens of your country.

What happened on 9/11 was international terrorism. The terrorists were not citizens of the US. So what would be a good example of domestic terrorism? The KKK, Neo Nazis, Skinheads and any other white supremacist group. One could argue that skinheads are probably more like a gang than terrorist group because they like most other gangs have shit for brains. But nonetheless all these groups cause terror on the American public.

But what is so scary is how America deals with domestic terrorism compared to international terrorism.

There is something of the sort that I would like to call hypocrisy. It seems America wants to stop terrorists from other countries, but it allows its own American brand terrorists run free in America.

You could say this has to partially do with race.

These same terrorist groups we are fighting in the Middle East would not get away with what they were doing even if they were formed and started in America...why? because they are not white.

The reality is, white people are less likely to oppose terrorism if it comes from white people and the terror they bring is not directed at white people.

White society benefits from terrorists such as the Neo-Nazis. Most white people would never outwardly admit they support them because they want the benefits that come with not admitting your a racist. If white society really wanted to get rid of these terrorists they could have, easily. They are hate groups and free speech does not cover hatred. The very fact they don't try to get rid of these groups only shows how much majority in society have a support for these groups. They benefit from them because they are not victimized by them.

When you are a minority in society you may be subjected to much more victimization than a white person, but no one will care. The police are not here to serve black people but to only harass them and terrorize them, (I classify the police as being like Germany's Gestapo).

White society is okay with the KKK and Neo Nazis because they target minorities, and if white society could have things done their own way, they would have all minorities destroyed.

The reality of terrorism is that one has a better chance of running into domestic terrorism than they do international terrorism. But its sad that developed countries want to destroy terrorism that comes out of the 3rd world but do not care to destroy terrorism that comes from within its own country.

Another reason America will not respond to its own terrorist groups besides race is because developed countries have the tendency to believe they are somehow better than other countries and there is no way they could possibly have the same problems as other countries. No American (well at least white american) would ever believe you if you told them the truth. To them terrorism is equated to being a 3rd world thing. Americans have always had the problem of seeing themselves correctly. The rest of the world laughs at the egotistical American "I am superior to you" attitude. America has yet to realize that of all developed countries its behind all of them, even Japan and even Austrailia are more developed than America.

In the end, if America falls, I truly believe it will be at the doing of Americans own hands, not the hands of other people from other countries.