By Anna Von Reitz
Approximately
12% of the population in this country came a long time ago from
Africa. That means that Chuck Schumer's call out of President Trump for
naming 86% of his nominees as white people and condemning him for
supposedly not observing proportions of racial representation is
mistaken at best. Trump is actually scrupulously within the percentage
parameters, even assuming that such obligations are meaningful.
Some
of the most prejudiced people I know are people of color; of course,
they have been encouraged to see things through racially tinted glasses
all their lives and to interpret all the slings and arrows in terms of
race. They've been taught to see things this way by politicians keen
on benefiting themselves from racially motivated voting blocks, instead
of letting people unify along lines that matter to all of us: lower
taxes, safer streets, better housing, more jobs, decent medical care and
schools.
Just
like I don't believe in money, I don't believe in race. We all bleed
in one color: red. We all cry the same tears. That's good enough for
me.
If
we could all change places for a week, we would in short order
discover that everyone suffers racial prejudice. Everyone suffers from
name-calling. Everyone suffers from false assumptions. Nobody's own
unique self is being totally respected. We are all suffering these
tilts and jilts, whether it's me being called a "Nazi" or my friend
being called a "Nigger" or my other friend called an "Injun" with a
snarl. It's all the same thing when you get down to it, and it's all
wrong and it all hurts, and it doesn't stop just because somebody makes
a law against it or because a quota is fulfilled.
In
fact, the existence of such quotas just underlines the prejudice and
puts it in red letters: see everyone? We are prejudiced but we are
trying not to be prejudiced! Oh, look at us, and applaud because we are
trying.... I cringe every time I hear it. It's time to stop "trying"
and just be.
As of April 4, 2018,
it will be fifty years to the day since Martin Luther King, Jr. was
gunned down. I remember that day. I remember the sense of confusion and
blind loss, and a couple months later, when Robert F. Kennedy followed
him to the grave, it was the same. Two men. One black, one white. Why?
All they tried to do was protect people, and uplift people, and make a
path forward toward a better future for all people. What was their
crime? Why were they slain?
We
all know the answer if we think about it. It's because there is an
element in our society that hates itself, that hates all men regardless
of their color, and which cannot bear the prospect of unity or peace
or success. It's against these ideas that the bullets fly, and why is
that? Because some men get very, very rich by promoting war and death
and disease and prejudice. Because some politicians get a lot of votes
by race-baiting. Because a lot of us are dumb enough to fall for all
their crap.
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