Journal cyborg_monkey's Journal: I need to get this off my chest.... 7
Not a whole lot of things really piss me off, but there are a few, and racism is one of them. First, I am going to tell you what it is that i refer to as racism. Any blind discrimination against an individual due to color, religion, backround, sexual preference, age, disibility, or any other classification that the ignorant sector of our population places people into. Next, i am going to tell you what i think about it. I think that it is disgusting that any human being would ever discriminate against any other human being based on anything other then personal character. If you meet someone and get to know who they really are, and dislike them, that's fine by me, but if you see someone and automatically judge them based upon any insignifigant piece of information you have about them, whether it be race, religion, or any other aspect about them, you deserve a harsh thrashing. It's shocking that there is such a large following for groups like the Ku Klux Klan, and Neo-Nazi organizations. From my experience there is only one organization fighting back with full force against this plague, and that is the ARA. You can click the logo below to access the ARA website.
It's about time we started doing something about people like this, who are ruining the earth by spreading blind hate. People are slaughtered on a day to day basis due to the color of thier skin, or thier religious beliefs, or anything else a biggot can find wrong with them. If this kind of evil is not put to an end, it will become more and more rampant. Groups like the KKK are fighting harder then ever, and are more active then ever. So we have to as well to stop them.
Something else i would like to comment on is the tolerance of these types of organizations. In Jasper County, Texas, James Byrd, Jr., an african-american, was dragged to his death by a pickup truck driven by three white men whom are thought to have links to the KKK and other white supremist organizations. Just weeks after this killing, factions of the KKK were given a permit by Jasper County to hold a rally outside of the Jasper Courthouse. I wrote an email to Kay Baily Hutchinson about this disgrace, and have yet to recieve a response. It seems obvious that our "leaders" have no intention of stopping this behavior, placing this responsibility in our hands.
One of the most unjust things i can think of is rasing a child to hate. And it's happening more and more. Racist parents are teaching thier children not to play with kids that are black, or not to associate with other kids that are jewish, or not be around other kids for countless other meaningless differences, and teach them that there is something wrong with these people. This treatment has to stop. This is one of the worst types of child abuse there is. It is certainly not the children's fault, and if they are raised so that this is all that they know, then they too will breed hate in society. They learn that the right thing to do is to hide behind a white hood and this allows them to say and do anything that there closed minds can think up. It is a true pity that any parent would raise a child purposfully ignorant.
Another issue i would like to address is the skinhead movement. The news media, and the public in general seem to think that any skinhead is a racist. This is very far from the truth. The fact behind the matter is that the original skinheads in England broadcasted a tough image, an image that Nazi recruiters thought would fit thier new recruits well. They went to many nations in Europe, and to America, and began recruiting Nazi youth, and having them shave their heads. True skinheads are often strongly opposed to these racist imitators. Two such men were killed in the deseerts of Nevada outside Las Vegas. To visit thier memorial, click here. A simple way to tell if a skinhead is a racist or not is to simply confront them. Ask them about it, and see what there reaction is. Racists will generally have nothing to say about it and act rudely, while most real skinheads will be happy to explain. They will also normally have patches of bands on a jacket or something similar, while their nazi counterparts will generally display schwastickas or KKK emblems.
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