Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Racial Humiliation
I don't know how many of you know this, but I am of Dominican and African-American heritage. Yes, there's some British in there, but I know that's not something others would be able to tell my looking at me. So, I keep that little secret to myself. However, don't be surprised if I know the meaning of the words; minger, dodgy, loo, arsehole, ,etc.
That's not what I'm here to write about today, though. I'm writing about something I've found to be very disturbing and, as I've said before, many people might have a problem with it. But do I care? Honestly, I don't.
For centuries, the African-American race has been looked down upon as trash by other races, and I have to say that I see no reason as to why that shouldn't be. Since I've moved to another area (for a learning experience, if anything), I've come to see that these people are stereotyped for a reason. I listen to them play their loud music past two o'clock in the morning, showing no respect for their neighbors whatsoever. They have a general disrespect for others who aren't affiliated with their race just because they're angry their ancestors were made to be slaves. But what I have to say to that…is whether or not they've ever been slaves themselves?
They feel they are justified in the criminal activities they partake in, because they're just taking what's been 'owed' to them for quite some time. They don't know how to be civilized and see violence as the only way of solving a problem. They destroy their own environment at every cost. And it is because of this I believe the 'ghetto' exists. A place can be of the highest class, but you mix a certain group of people within it, and it will become nothing other than trash.
For some reason, being rebellious is seen as an entitlement. And I'm here to say that the Black community just needs to get over it. Yes. Our ancestors were slaves and didn't have the privileges we have today, but what sense does it make to continue making life harder for us as a group?
No doubt. We had our culture taken away from us. The particular music several of us prefer to listen to and the 'gansta' lifestyle isn't considered a culture. I don't know how many of you have seen the movie "Havoc", but I would recommend it just so you're aware of how other races imitate minorities merely by behaving like idiots. What's so sad about it...they're imitating us appropriately.
Now, don't get me wrong. I know there are some very decent people of the African-American race...good citizens who work hard for a living and raise families. But, sadly, there are a lot of ignorant fools out there who do nothing but spit on our race. And what makes it so bad, it's the very race they're apart of.
I agree that our ancestry was robbed and as much as that may hurt, we need to be smart enough to create a more positive culture for ourselves.
Our first instinct is to blame the so-called 'white man', but the truth of the matter is…you're doing this to yourselves. You're destroying one another. You're destroying where you live. You're choosing to have a life without peace…all because you feel there's something you have to prove. And this couldn't make the 'white man' happier. We're like monkeys to them, monkeys that are slowly destroying themselves. And, in the end, the joke will be on us.
You're idiots. And for that reason, I refuse to claim myself as part of the African-American race. I'm actually humiliated to know that some of the same blood runs through me. And believe me when I say, I'm no uncle Tom. I just have sense, which apparently several of you don't.
I, today, am Dominican and Dominican only. Because the counterpart of my blood is too much of an embarrassment to accept.
But do you really believe our ancestors would appreciate us destroying the very gifts that are given to us? Would they appreciate our lack of unity as a whole—baby mamas and baby daddies here and there.
They wouldn't. And I'm sure they're turning over in their graves for sacrificing their lives for a group of people who only make us look worse as a society.
