I never had to face a situation like I did last night, I thought racism was out there, I didn’t believe it was in my world, in my school, sitting across from me. How can I express my feelings? How can I even speak? I shake just thinking about it. Racism. The poem I wrote expresses a lot of what I mean to say, but there’s so much more. You (when I say you I’m referring to people in general who are racist) accept those who are German, Australian, British, anyone who’s as wealthy as you, but those, those who are suffering you ignore, batter, bruise them. In that moment when that person said such racist, hatred comments I couldn’t breath and I still can’t I woke with a bad taste in my mouth, this horrible sickness in my stomach. It made me ashamed to walk around in this skin, to own it. jumping in the shower I wished it would just go down the drain, what do I deserve that they don’t? Nothing. Nothing. I have two cousins that are adopted, both black, I want to literally throw up at the thought that they are going to have to face people like that. People who hate them, with one glance. My mom said she was proud that I stood up for what I believed, but I don’t feel proud I feel sick I feel like that was only one moment, one minute, did it change anything? Is that person really going to change the way they think. I don’t know where you come from and I don’t know if this is going to do any good, but racism is wrong, so wrong. I don’t just mean toward African Americans I mean towards everyone. I have been to Dachau (one of the biggest Nazi concentration camps) what happened there was one of the most evilest, disgusting things that ever happened in the history of man kind, but when you think thoughts of such hatred, its happening all over again. When you call them niggers I swear you calling me that, when you hate someone for being Asian, Iranian, Mexican whatever, you hate me and when you spit on someone for being Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist anything you spit on me because I am part of this humanity as are you and this needs to stop. I know this may sound extreme when racism is only a minority, to me that is still too many. Think about it.
WE ARE ALL HUMAN
Well, I don’t know what to say. I know there are lots of racist people around, and yes I know some people who go to our school who are very racist and bigoted people. I’ve never personally seen anyone say a racist comment in front of the person it’s directed at, but it is a very terrible thing to witness racism anyway. It’s the same thing with Nationalism, nationalism is just as bad as racism. People who think that they’re somehow superior because of the country they live in, it’s stupid and illogical. Why the hell do people think these things? Just listening to some of the completely stupid justifications make my brain hurt.
For example, I was reading a book called “The Road To Wigan Pier” by George Orwell (some of you may have heard of him
), anyway, in the book he said that people in Britain at that time had the idea that the further north you live, the better a person you are. Seriously, they actually believed that if you lived in a more northern town, city, or country you were a better person. Apparently they’d got this idea because England is one of the most northern countries in the world. They had some twisted idea that hot climates make you “lazy”. This just goes to show how completely pointless and baseless these people’s justifications are. Of course he flattened this argument saying that the English are some of the most lazy people (remember, this was over 70 years ago) and that if the theory were true Eskimos would be the most thriving people in the world. These same people would move to India out of a superiority complex because they weren’t high class in their country, but they were high class in India.
It’s pitiful why some people think they’re better than others and the ways they try and make themselves look better.
Racism may be a minority to us, but keep in mind we live in small-town Southwestern Ontario. Race conflicts are waged on much grander scales in places like Africa (Hutu-Tutsi conflict) and the United States (racial profiling). So when one thinks about it, your reaction isn’t all that extreme.
Reading your post, I’m reminded of the film Freedom Writers…I haven’t seen it, but I’ve seen trailers, I’ve read synopses, visited the web site yada yada yada, and from what I’ve read, it seems like the film deals with a lot of what you’re talking about here. Just thought I’d share…