ENOUGH! *language warning*
Current mood: 
disgusted
It’s generally considered a bad idea to discuss issues of sex, race, politics or religion. I normally follow that line of thinking. Not now. If this blog offends, stop reading. I don’t care.
I am a fair person. I recognize that everyone has their own points of view, quite often based on their life experience. I realize that I was and am blessed to have been raised by parents who taught me that aesthetics mean nothing – your true nature means everything.
Today officials arrested two skinheads from Tennessee after threats were made to assassinate presidential candidate Barack Obama. Does this surprise me? No. Does is DISGUST me? YES.
Tell me you disagree with Barack’s political ideology. Tell me you feel he’s inexperienced. Hell, tell me you don’t like his vague and distant connection with William Ayers and I will allow even that. But to vote against him because of his race? I’m sorry folks, but in my mind, if you are voting for John McCain SOLELY because he is caucasion, you are NO BETTER than these skinhead degenerates.
PLEASE explain to me what goes on in the mind of these racist bigots? Explain to me why I am inherently better than the next man because I happened to have been born pale? Did I have ANYTHING to do with it? Did I have ANY say in it? NO! If you don’t believe in God, you can assume that it was a random act of genetics. And if you do believe in God, as I do, you know that it was predetermined, predestined. You are who you are and you had NOTHING to do with it. That does NOT make you intrinsically better.
These pathetic excuses for human beings might want to do a bit of fact checking. Guess who fills up the majority of American prisons? WHITE males. Guess who makes up the majority of serial killers in this country? WHITE males. Does this make all white males guilty by association? Logic tells us no. But apparently logic is something these types of people aren’t familiar with.
My grandparents were hard working, disciplined, kind and loving people from West Virginia. They were made fun of for their lack of income. They were teased for their meager education. My grandfather, at the age of 81, could not spell simple one syllable words. He left school in the sixth grade because his family needed an extra income. He worked in coal mines until he was able to take his family north to Ohio, in the hopes of finding better, safer employment. My grandmother picked fruit and vegetables, took care of neighborhood children and raised her own (as well as her grandchildren AND great-grandchild). These were honorable people who would have given you the shirt off of their backs. Yet they were made fun of because they were “stupid hillbillies”.
It’s simple psychology when you recognize that people often hate in other’s what they also know to be true about themselves. That for some, it heightens their morale to bring other people down. Name calling is one thing. But when you threaten to harm or take the life of another human being, simply because of a difference in pigmentation, a difference that somehow threatens you, it’s not only unjustifiable….it makes you, at least in my eyes, no longer human.
My great uncle was the imperial wizard (though a proper noun, I REFUSE to capitalize the title) of the kkk (again, no caps) in West Virginia during the 1930’s. It’s something I know about my family, something that saddens me to no end. I take NO pride in knowing that someone whom I am bound to by blood decided to promote (and possibly take part in) the abuse, torture and/or murder of human beings. I don’t want to hear the argument “Well you know, at that time…” Stop there. Please. At the time in Nazi Germany, it was acceptable to torture Jewish citizens as well. Was that right? Was that noble?
This country, this WORLD had better take a long hard look in the mirror and pass judgment on THEMSELVES.
Bottom line? If you think you’re better than me because you’re smarter, I can deal with it. I don’t agree, but it’s understandable. If you think you’re better than me because I’m not white enough or too white or my hair is too red or not red enough or I have blue eyes when they should be brown…..ANYthing that I had nothing to do with?
FUCK YOU.
