Rasicim, why does it still exist?

Racism, why does it still exist? 

So recently during the Capitol take over, as I watched so many white people climbing walls, knocking down fences and destroying our Capitol, I spoke on it and all of the Trump supporters kept bringing it back to the BLM. The situation with BLM was about basic human rights and not about being a sore loser and following the Hitler like man who is running this country.

See, I could never understand this and today with 50 years under my belt, I still can't understand it. I never knew it because I wasn't raised knowing it, my mom was born and raised in Harlem, her best friends were black, as there was no segregation in New York. When we moved upstate even though our town was small, we were diversified, we had Black families, White, Spanish, Jewish, Indian and mixed families. We even had gay families and drag queens in our small town and we were all friends.

My "Big daddy" Sam Whitfield was a family friend for as long as I could remember, at our house every week and every holiday.

My first very best friend was named "Cookie" who was also black and it was there I learned to love fried chicken, collard greens and her mom's incredible corn bread. 

There was no color, there was just friendship, there was love, there were people who had your back and you had theirs, that simple. It was never us against them or that we thought we were better in any way, we all bleed red, we all have hearts, we are all human beings.

When I started to go to church I found one that touched my heart, one that spoke to me, to my soul, it just happened to be a  predominantly black church, yet I never felt more than welcomed and loved from the moment I stepped foot in there. These wonderful men and women are now my friends, they have become my family, and yes, I would lay down my life for my family, there is that much love there.

So when I still hear so much about racism in this country I am blown away, Why? What makes you think you're better than another human being? Who said you were the chosen one? And why? Because someone else doesn't look like you? I would have hoped that by 2021, with so many strides we have made, so many ways we have come forward, even with having a black president, that this would have changed. When I was growing up, who would have thought that was even possible? Yet, it happened and I hoped that change would have come with it, but there are so many people still stuck in a time warp about racism.

Especially in the last 5 years when Trump started to run, he made it okay for the racist and the closet KKK to bring out their robes out of hiding. Even as we watched them destroying our Capitol, they were there with rebel flags and shirts that said  “Camp Auschwitz” emblazoned with a skull and crossbones, and under it the phrase “work brings freedom” – an English translation of the Auschwitz concentration camp motto: “Arbeit macht frei.”

On the back it said Staff.

Another image, more subtle but no less incendiary, is of a different man whose T-shirt was emblazoned with the inscription “6MWE” above yellow symbols of Italian Fascism. “6MWE” is an acronym common among the far right standing for “6 Million Wasn’t Enough.” It refers to the Jews exterminated during the Nazi Holocaust and hints at the desire of the wearer to increase that number still further.

Their hatred is just like Hitler's was against anyone who didn't look like them, this time it looks like a bunch of uneducated rednecks with no teeth. No offense to anyone who is not a racist without teeth.

(See what it has come down to, to make sure you don't offend anyone, anymore)

QAnon followers, the Proud Boys and the other far-right and alt-right groups that converged on Washington imagined that they were living out the great fantasy that underlies what many consider to be the bible of the white nationalism movement, a 1978 dystopian novel, “The Turner Diaries,” by William Luther Pierce. That theirs, somehow stupid, is a superior race.

There is no racism, there is just stupidism, stupid, small minded people who for some God forsaking reason think they are better then someone else, than everyone else and as if it was  their jobs to rid the world of everyone who doesn't believe, and who doesn't look like them.

So today my friends, let's stamp out stupidism, let others know it's not okay to say racial slurs of any kind, to not judge a person on skin color. Let's put our foot down and say that it's not okay to shoot at, pepper spray and kill Black protesters but take selfies with white protesters that stormed the Capitol. 

We need change in our police system where on their day off they are allowed to put on their white sheets to help these nut jobs and yet we don't think it is possible for it to overflow into their judgments while they are on the job. Give me a frigging break! This is white privilege at it's finest and this must change. 

So many are now crying that they are "targeted'' that they cannot fly because they are now labeled terrorists, that they lost their jobs and now ha, ha, ha their right to bear arms. Too fucking bad, you are terrorists, you are a group of small minded, low educated, toothless people who think the country should be run by a man, who let me tell you doesn't give two shits about you. He is only out for himself, his power and his money but you all are too stupid to see that.

So today my friends, I apologize for ranting but I can't understand how so many people think this is alright? How hating another person based on their skin color, their religion or their sexual preference is okay. We need to judge people on their hearts, who they are inside, how they give back as a society and to be more open minded about another's culture and race because we all bleed the same color and at the end we all will turn into dust, no matter what color you are.

Again I will leave you with this…

It is so important to realize we must speak out against injustice even if it is not pointed at us.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—

     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—

     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

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