Racism is alive and well!!

I'm sure there are racist everywhere, but what can we do about it? You can fix ignorance. We just have to teach our children that everyone is equal and hopefully in the next generation and thereafter there will be less and less a-holes like that.

There might be but that doesn't mean that you...and I...and others can't do something about it, both here on mylot and in our personal lives. I'm a white woman and I dealt with racism coming from both sides when I worked at a community college...and when I was a student at the state university. The best weapon against racism is getting personal. It's hard to hate someone who you personally know, who you've had conversations with and who is a decent person.

I thought we were going in the right direction when Obama was elected President of the United States. Since he has taken office I have seen and heard so much more racism coming from people mouths. Its so dishearten. Yesterday a Judge in Louisiana decided he was going to marry an interacial couple. I thought we are going backwards what is going on in this world. Why can't we just all get along. I have just about everything in my family from English,Chezlovakian, Puerto Rican, Black/Puerto Rican, Italian, Jewish, American Indian. When we all get together its a fun time always. We all have our little fights but its never about the color of someone skin or their regligion. I will never understand how someone can not like a person because they are of a different race, creed or religion. It just blows my mind that people can still be so ignorant in the year 2009. Then we wonder why the world is going to hell.

Well, just goes to show ya, I've been told not too long ago to "go back" to where I came from by a white person. So I told the guy, "Well, you might wanna go back to where you came from". The guy didn't quite understood so I gave him a little history lesson. To make a long story short, U.S. was originally occupied by "American Indians". If you look into an American Indian's history, they are direct descendant of "Mongolian" race, which ironic enough, same ancestors that Asian people share. So, technically speaking, the U.S. continent was occupied by Asian people first but was "stolen" by "white men". So, following that logic, it's white men that don't belong in this country. Ever heard of the ship called, "Mayflower"? Go back to England - European continent - where you came from. But then hey, who am I to claim a land that MY ancestors first settled. Of course he didn't have anything to say to that. Some people don't even know their own history & when they fall back on racism, they're only showing their own ignorance.

Racism, sexism, bias and prejudice and persecution of some sort in all areas of life are still alive, so sad to say.

The more progress we make, the more we see that has yet to be done. So we each do what we can to fight such ignorance and atrocities. Prejudice or bigotry is always frightening, for some people go to any extreme to express such hatreds.

Everyone is racist. We can't deny that fact. Even though there are people who try not to be racist but I feel that we cannot remove it from our systems. One of the reasons are the lack of information and knowledge about other races. Two, other races have a mentality that they are superior than other races. The result of course is racism. We can't deny that fact. All we can do is to accept our differences and try to mingle with other races and with globalization today, I think it would be just a matter of time before racism is removed

Most of the racism we see is from the left. Bare with me a moment before you blow a gasket, and I'll explain why I see it this way.

We on the right judge by merits and abilities, hence we get people like Micheal Steele (leader of the Republican Party), Colin Powel and condeliza Rice.

The left judges solely on race, hence you get people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and, I'm sorry to put him on this list, but President Barack Obama, who hides his background behind a shroud. I'm not talking about his birth certificate, because I'm fairly sure his long form birth certificate is in the same place mine is. where ever that is. I'm talking about his educational records and things of that nature. Things that MUST be put forward for inspection by the party pryor to becoming a candidate.

Hence, my firm belief that the left judges solely on race, not content of character.

Unfortunately I am sure there is racism still a little bit everywhere. But I only know this because of people on television talking about it. I am a 24 year old woman, who grew up in a small town that was predominantly white. I always thought that racism was a thing of the past, only to be read about in history books because I always played with people of all races and some of the most popular people I knew were not of the current majority race. I even dated out of my race. I actually have never understood why anyone would be racist, maybe because I grew up in an environment that taught me to love all people of every shape, size, color, religion, political party, and so on. I always just thought that because of our diversity, and what has happened in the past.. that this view was one of the components that made me a true American.

What do you think?