I Want My Future Children To Read About Racisim

I live in a middle class neighborhood. In this neighborhood, most of the people have respect for each other, regardless color or background, but there are a few exceptions....however that is not true of all the middle class neighbhoods in the outskirts...being whites against blacks. If you go to the lower income areas there is a huge amount of racism, blacks against whites. They are very territorial. My husband who is African but does not look like it, has experienced racism from both sides...the whites and the blacks. The blacks in the lower income areas think he is white, and have been beaten him two to one....I know this because this one black woman said to my husband if they had known you weren't white, they never would have beaten you up. She knew my husband was not white. Then he goes to this middle class neighborhood to pick up tickets, and the man giving out the tickets saw my husband and heard him speak and could he could tell he was not white. The man fell backwards and my husband went around to help him up, and he pushed my husband away. Some white guy goes help him up and he accepts his help. Until this stuff stops, you will hear about racism all the time. It has to stop. Affirmative Action has not helped either. It never will...it has to stop in the heart of man...not policies.

Well, teach them about racisim. Just because people are a different color, it does not mean they are not human! It's just the melanin in the skin that makes them that color! Besides if you look at it this way, if people all looked the same, the world would be boring! Just because we are all different colored people it does not mean we got no feelings, thoughts, the need to be loved, any need any person would need. HATE is a strong word. I am sick of the haters and the racists out there. People probably hate a certain race either if it was out of jealousy OR they don't really have nothing to do in the lives but watch people suffer from their hatred. They probably just wanna bring them down to their level or lower than their level so the hater can feel so much better about themselves rather than trying to be like them. So some will take it out on their race just because their race is so good at a certain thing. And in some certain races are true. If you look at it in a stereotypical point of view.

Gosh I wish I knew the answers, I don't understand why people can be so hateful like that, I just don't understand it. How would they feel if the situation was turned and their was a black kkk after them.

What a beautiful and wonderful thought, to have your children read about racism in the history books instead of the newspapers! I can't tell you how much I hope your dream comes true, Rozie, for you and for me. I'm one of those people who has never really experience discrimination since I'm pretty close to being a "blue-eyed blond" but that doesn't mean racism of any kind doesn't totally disgust and sicken me. I'm very proud of you for not allowing the horrible activities in Louisiana to prevent you from visiting your family members there and I'll sure pray for your safety and your relatives who live there. I really hope Obama's election and his Presidency will help us all heal. No matter what some people may say, I think the fact he won and how convincing his victory was is a very good sign. Rozie, you ask what we can do to start to make a change and I think the answer lies in what you mention in your title - our CHILDREN, current and future, regardless of what race or gender or anything else they are! Young people, in some cases starting with those in their thirties and forties and all the way down to the little ones are far more tolerant and accepting of everyone. I've posted here numerous times about my own grandkids, ages 11 and 13, who were sincerely very surprised to know it was something strange for a woman and an African American to be running for President and/or Vice President. They were like, "WHY? Why shouldn't they be and why have they never been before?" Among their collective close friends are several African American kids, a couple Hispanics and a couple Asians but it's not an issue at all with any of them, they're just kids who enjoy "hanging out" together. I dream of a world where we can all "hang out" together in harmony! Annie

Obama may help the change along, but it will take more effort by Americans to get over racisim. I do think he changed the views of many people, but there are always going to be the ignorant people in the world that only see people by color. It's a shame that people still have those kinds of views and it being the year 2008.