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February, it's a month that traditionally has been recognized as the month for lovers and presidents. Appearantly some presidents are better lovers than others. Just ask Bill. Recently, however, it has become that wonderful time of the year in which we remember black history. News broadcasts tell us about the first "African American" woman to have a baby in North America. Why should we care? Most of the events that are described are very insignificant and have nothing to do with my life. I fail to see how such an event can possibly reduce any racial tension that may exist thanks to media's perpetuation of it. In my opinion separating the races so that one can be honored for a month is the very way to cause racism, not the way to stop it. If the media would stop telling us how racist everyone is then we would not have most of the racial problems we have today. I recently saw on the news that some boys were removed from school because they put a noose around a girl's neck. The story could have been left at that, but the newscaster had to tell us that it was white boys and a black girl. Therefore, implying that somehow this was racially motivated. The mention was brief and there was no indication as to whether or not racism was involved. I find it interesting that when a black person kills a white person that it was merely for theft, but when a white person kills a black person then somehow racism was involved. Does this seem right to you? "European Americans"* are not the only ones who are the only ones who are racists. Take a look at that show "The Jeffersons." George Jefferson was just about as much a racist as any confederate who fought the abolishion of slavery because "Negroes are inferior." Take a look at the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farakhan, part of his doctrine is that the U.S. should give up part of its land to establish a blacks only country. This was tried with the establishment of Liberia. It didn't work because the majority of blacks are pretty happy here and they are sure that things couldn't be any better over there. If the media would not infer any signs of racism I am sure that these problems would go away. If they would show us how we are the same then we would not need to see how we are different. Frankly I am sick of seeing racial diversity stuff. Let's start taking a look at racial similarities. If we cannot stop seeing people's skin color then we will not be able to stop racism. The best way to stop seeing skin color is to start looking at people and not giving special rights and privileges to minorities. We should not acknowledge the concept of minorities either because we are all in the majority human race. *We have to be politically correct now. I'm just as white as an "African American" is black. |
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