Danny Stroble wrote: This is dedicated to Tom Robinson, and all my friends of color. Spread it and share it if it moves you. A great friend has asked me to speak candidly on an issue that we should all hold dear. I have learned through my 53 years of life that people in general, no-one specific, put less stock in the words of others when they speak on an issue that they are directly involved with. Which is to say, a black man speaking about racism is less viewed as important, than a white man speaking on the racism against black people, or a disabled person speaking on the issue of disability. An objective outside opinion is always more well received than that of the person discussed in the issue. Which is why we have lawyers who speak for us in courtroom situations, because they can leave out the emotion that tends to cloud the issue. I am a racist, I have learned this through years of careful viewing of my own actions and the actions of others toward our black and other than white brothers and sisters. In learning these facts I have, hopefully, began to change from deep within my heart, where the only true change can occur. I used to avoid speaking of racism, and avoid being near people of color, and avoid any uncomfortable situation that I perceived as my way of claiming that society is getting better, or that racism really no longer is an issue. Racism is an issue, a very dark and scary issue, that must be addressed in meaningful discussion, for as we’ve all heard, “Evil thrives when good people do nothing.” Evil racism is destroying any chance for a meaningful relationship between all Americans. If we don’t act, we are condoning this evil and we then deserve the perilous end that we are all heading rapidly toward. The way to combat this particular evil is fairly simple: 1. Stop hushing the meaningful discussions by not offering your own opinion, all opinions are important to make change happen. 2. Go out of your way to make a friend in the other than white communities near you. Love and friendships spreads love and friendships. 3. When you see people of other than your color in distress, don’t turn your head and act like because it’s them it’s not that bad. Just like the idiot Congresswoman who said of the victims of Katrina, “It’s okay for THEM to have to live like that, THEIR used to it.” Being stupid and ignorant is no longer and excuse for being racist. There was a news item after Katrina that I will never be able to let go of and forget. Outside the Superdome as the buses were finally picking up the survivors 5 days after the devastation, a black man was forced by authorities to leave his dead mother in a shopping basket parked beside a K-rail. If you can imagine that being any mother in our country, yours perhaps, and you are the one forced to walk away from her lifeless body and board a bus, and think how you would feel, then you are beginning to feel the change in your own heart. That man was crying and fighting against leaving his cherished mother behind, which is exactly what any of us would have done, but according to the Congresswoman, because he was a poor black man, it should be ok. Feel the change, make it take hold of your life and make a difference. We’re all in this together please don’t ever feel like, suffering is ok, because THEY’RE BLACK and POOR. It’s not ok, it’s racism.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 04:58:57 +0000
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