Racism exploding?

It's hard to write a note for what I want to say. I want to write something that doesn't offend anyone, but how can I do that? I can't be angry in this note, because anger doesn't allow feedback. It just makes everyone get upset.



First of all, everyone should be congratulating Barack Obama. The people who voted McCain can't keep marinating on these false rumors of Obama's associations. How are we going to unite as a nation if all the McCain voters HATE Obama. When I read people's statuses on facebook, I feel like we haven't made any progress. We have a mixed President, yet people are calling him the n word that died out a longggg time ago. That word conveys ignorance and hate. How can someone be for a fetuses right's, but think it's perfectly Christian to use that word that cut into HUMAN BEINGS hearts. That lowered their self esteem, and their self worth. That made dreams seem too far away to reach.

I didn't want this note to be all about racism, but racism seems to be in full throttle over night. It was a quiet racism, which isn't any better. But now people are showing their true colors. How would whites feel if we saw our dad, or mother, or sister, or brother being HUNG in front of HUGE crowds, and we couldn't do a thing about it?
HOW would whites feel if we picked cotton in the blazing sun all day long, and had to answer YES MASTER to people who treated us like animals. How would whites feel if we were drug over from OUR OWN COUNTRY to a country where we had NOT ONE RIGHT. We didn't have land, we couldn't vote, we couldn't live on our own. We had to answer to someones beckoning call night and day for years.
There is no reason to be living in racism in 2008. TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT. It's modern times, and we still have this issue of dividing people up into groups by stereotypes.

I admit, I've laughed with Dave Chapelle. I've laughed at racist comments because everyone knows how stupid it is. But I'm never laughing ever. again. I'm not going to be a part of something so inhumane.

People always tell me, LILY YOU'RE WHITE...etc. So that means I can't love hip hop music? I can't wear my high top nikes in peace? & If a black kid wants to listen to rock, he can't in peace?
He can't talk properly? It's weird if he uses "correct" English?
HE CAN'T BE PRESIDENT IN PEACE?

I'm sorry this is all about racism. I know a lot of people who just didn't agree with Barack Obama's policies, and thats FINE!
I'm talking to the people who display their racism on comments, statuses, wall posts.
It makes me sick to my stomach, honestly.

Racism lives on through ignorance. We need to learn everything we can, and teach our children that everyone is equal. BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. Rich people aren't better than the poor. The poor aren't less human than the rich. Poor people aren't poor because they're lazy. They're poor because everyone ISN'T EQUAL and because they're poor, it's hard to make it out of that social stance.

We need to allow Barack Obama to come into our lives, and we need to trust him. It doesn't matter if he was German, Asian, Costa Rican, Kenyan, Jamaican, Austrian. HE WANTS TO HELP US.
We need to allow him to be able to help us. We can't put up a wall because we don't like him. I didn't like Bush either, but I gave him a chance to prove himself.
he didn't.

We have a future generation that will lead this country one day, we have to move forward.



hen will mixed children have a place? When will these stereotypes totally die out.
I just want to make a list of stereotypes that I've been exposed to in my life.

Black people like watermelon.
Every white person is racist.
White girls who date black guys are fat and trashy.
Black guys who date white girls are only using them.
Every mexican works at a chicken factory.
Black people who talk properly are "white". NEVER understood that.
White people who like rap are posers.
Every black guys sells drugs.
Black people love fried chicken & koolaid.
White people don't understand the struggle. **We have our OWN struggles.**


I've heard all of that in my life. Now, on paper, doesn't that seem ridiculous?
I'm done.

Marinate on that, and if you are racist and want to tell me why. PLEASE DO. because no one ever has a reason.