You've also opened my eyes to a different world there. Before I moved in with the wife I had Eastern European neighbours that played loud music until all evening, and that was just accepted I guess. Not tolerated, but accepted that a group of young lads would get up to shit. I'd often hear my direct neighbour banging on the roof with her broom handle yelling at those boys to "shut the fuck up" and those neighbours were Jehovas Witnesses and as white as you can get.
I get the white saviour on a throne thing. I see a lot of that, and it's usually from someone that wants to be known as such. It also feeds into the same ideology, that an underprivileged society was squashed by their white masters, are now being 'saved' by their white masters. It's stupid really. The real groundwork is done out of the public eye when no-one is paying attention and through a collective of people from all walks of life. That's true activism.
Racism is bad in America, I understand that. You guys have a sort of privileged white culture that I probably wouldn't understand even if I tried to. Some of the shit I see is unreal.
I speak in idealist terms. Whilst I say that we all need to work together I know through practical experience that not everyone is at the same mindset as me, but like everything, the solution will always present itself when someone takes the initiative and the other group weilds. Hope it does soon :)
Absolutely. And yeah, America was quite literally built on racism. All that said - even if we were all the same color, society would find ways to divide us (obviously - there was no bonding over being white in my home town - it was class and last name).
I think, at a certain level, racism starts to disappear and is replaced by classism. In that sense - everyone who isn't the 1% is slaves to them, and it's one thing more have in common than don't.
More people need a mind set like you! I'd love to come back and visit earth (if it's still here) and like...500 years. I wonder if it will be a post racial society - and if it is, what will the new 'ism be?
As Jehovah's witness as you can get LOL. Two randomly showed up at my door the other day - My boyfriend engaged them in a conversation and then tried to convert THEM to Buddhism. Funniest thing ever. Needless to say...they haven't come back.
You open up a whole new discussion. It's something that I wonder. If we were all the same what would we find to compare ourselves to one another. At my school when we all had the same uniform and free school meals were hidden it was the type of shoes you wore. Kids were bullied for their shoes and how they acted on the playground.
All in all I think it boils down to if you're happy or not. Those of us that are unhappy, angry or sad, usually tend to focus on something that's different to them to point out, fix or even humiliate. It's so much easier than facing the broken that is inside.
Those of us that are truly happy, I'd say I was, look to create more happiness and unison in the world, and those of us that have been trying to do it for a very long time, like me, understand that universal happiness is, for now, an idealism. Yet I think it could be achieved! Maybe in a billion years, if we haven't wiped ourselve sout hahaha
Truer words never spoken! You're so right - blind hatred, intolerance, oppression, prejudice - all reflections of how people feel about themselves. Misery creates more misery, and needs a scapegoat.
<3 it. Here's hoping we don't have to wait a billion years to solutions lol
Ps- had to creep on your profile and website...bookmarked :-)
Thanks! Lots of good things happening with my website because of the money I'm earning here! Stay tuned. I'm not one for putting all of my eggs in one basket haha.
It's always the way isn't it? Have an interesting discussion, creep on their profile and follow the person.
It's so much easier than taking the discussion away from the original article, saying, duuh, I wrote something similar, check it out. Um, no! lol
Yes! Wow. Perfect example of how an interaction leads to the desired end result - no blatant self promotion required. Be interesting. Have stuff to say. (leave a discrete web link in your bio, and they will come !) :-)
Exactly how it should be :) - Oh, and I forgot to tell you that I had already creeped on your too. Your first comment was a sure fire way to get me to follow you! ;)
:-) Still trying to figure out what I am on here lol. Hopefully, one of these days I'll have a link in my bio too! Thanks for the follow!