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This is what i sent to a "White" girl who apparently had the audacity to say the WORD in my girlfriend's presence... something to the effect of mentioning "nigger piling."
lets get to the basics and then ill explain how it brought her to making such inconsiderate statements.
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As youve gathered- this topic is old for me. I know there a few "white" people waiting to pounce on my post and call me a biggot and all types of stuff- I assure you, thats nothing new to me either.
I dont feel like fighting about it anymore- thats new. The thing is- research the history of your so-called race and you'll find nothing but a long list of inhumanities and indignities. You'll find a large number of people basing their racial identity on things founded in some of the most racially prejudiced doctrines available yet not even being aware of it. Youll find people adhering to a racial classification when they dont even consider all those things done for "White" people and against others, they claim to be remorseful for such acts but nonetheless promote the same system (the White american system) that committed such attrocities then and still persists to oppress people of color today nonetheless hoping that they can still be redeemed from the racist injustices perpetrated by this society all the while being major proponents for it.
What you wont find is one shred of correlation between your race and qualifiers like nationality, religion, cultural traditions (at least not traditions that werent either stolen from other cultures or involving mass slaughter and brutality). You wont find common features among them- unless you broaden the sense of the word so much that anyone can apply; Whites have big noses, little noses, hooked noses, pug noses, thick hair, thin hair, curly hair etc etc- where's the commonality in that? You wont find culture in race- yet the White American system has been trying since colonialist America to convince you that White is your culture.
The problem is- the homogeny that America persists to encourage you to volunteer to comes at the cost of people's lives, dignity, freedom, ethinicty, culture and traditions, heritage, even their safety- it endangers all that for you as well.
Many take all this and say- Whatever Im White cuz i "look white" apparently thinking that this classification is just a benign observation of your physical features. Well- quite obviously you're not White you're more peach (and several other pigments as well) the term White and earlier terms like Caucasian stem from prejudiced doctrine that designated people of paler skin as more evolved than others- thats pretty much all there is too it- the fact that you comply with such designations has several damaging implications.
If its a means of describing you physically its just plain worng.
If its a means of gathering and providing census and statistical information its pervasively inaccruate and vague on behalf of calculating the hwite population- a population that is actually French american, Russian American, Irish American, etc.
If its used in a system of Democracy it quite clearly undermines democracy itself as it poses a false majority for the sake of majority rule.
If its just how society classifies people and you feel compelled to comply then you are also compelled to accept the racist demarcations that society has established for you. You cant claim to be White yet cast off all of the origins of White people; those include the barabarism and brutality and several attempts to lay dark skinned human kind to waste (Hitler's regime is included as he practised the same beliefs).
I know most "whites" dont want to be represented by such a culture- but if you choose to be White then that IS your culture- You must realize that you DO have a choice.
Without that doctrine that establishes the meaning and origin of the term white you have literally nothing else to hold onto to designate yourself as a person of race. If you comply with the stereotype as if there are no other legitimate means of classifying yourself (like nationality, religion, or ethnicity) then that makes you a racist.
Let me digress; most people dont consider themselves racists cuz they presume that that term designates people of extreme racial beliefs- FALSE - despite what media presents to you (propoganda) the fact that you honor and believe race alone makes you a racist; it doesnt necessarily mean you're a bad person or even that you're prejudiced but if you're not happy with the implications of that label then you might want to check your assumed classification as well.
Anyway the point is- As "white" people European americans previously found something in which to lock in their sense of social security. It was at one point a very effective means of providing a social defense against the onslaught of foreign powers and influence- but gradually it also became a means of justifying several attrocities; the slave trade was endorsed by the church and the world at large due to the writings of Charles Darwin and Charles Lyle who postulated that "scientifically" racial stratification was substantiated by evidence of evolution throughout humankind- people of pale skin being the most evolved of the species as such darker skin people can be summarily enslaved or shall we say domesticated. Do you remember Natural selection- now check the full title...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679600701/qid=957368729/sr=1-20/104-5417643-8506840
- thats right- it says the preservation of "favored" races- they didnt teach you that part in school; they left that out to perpetuate a severely racist social order.
Today "White" people generally find themselves confused about their lives- and their roles in the global community. They typically consider themselves "liberal"- accepting race doctrine but willing to subvert it for the sake of human good but not realizing that the doctrine itself is false therefore persistently trying to include "Whiteness" into the fold of social culture. The problem is "Whiteness" doesnt fit into the social culture it only exists to consume and homogenize it- it must do so for its own subsistence or for the preservation of "favored" races- for the very sake of race classification itself.
Worse than that several White people get shocked by the reality surrounding the White race. After visiting the perpetual injustices committed by White people they either run like the dickens to claim the nearest ethnic identity (even when they just dont fit), shudder to themselves behind closed doors- fearing all people of color (I refer to this generally as the White awareness of a reasonable and justified hostility to White people), or embrace it wholly- and then again several more people are just oblivious. White people are in desperate need of a solution to the problem of their racial identity- its tricky cuz most of them think its Blacks that have the problem.
The solution is this- Find your history. As KRS said- YOU MUST LEARN. Talk to your grandparents and families and realize the truth of your ethnicity. The good thing about so-called White people is that in general their ethnic history is very much documented and available; yet they settle for a racial classification that means and stands for absolutely nothing (unless you're willing to count lynching). Be you French American, Brittish american, or anything else- find out and claim that (an option that the US census doesnt offer you- dont leave your future blank right? make your future White!) if anything you should be proud and more than willing to know your origins.
But how many of you will still prefer to consider your selves White? Is it easier that way? Easier for whom?
K
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