It's hard not to be moved by that story. I'm sure there are many, many just like it. It is infuriating. There's one thing to think about, though. We are inundated with stories like this of the black experience. There are many examples of the injustices and I feel for every instance and ever story I hear like that. However, I'd like to know how many brown people experienced things like this. You know, there are more hispanic people in the US than black people, right? We number twice as many as the black people. But no one gives two shits about hispanics, because if you can believe it, we're the ass of the dog to black people. So in the pecking order, we rank below black people. Hispanics will always be thought of as the people who do your lawn or build your house. But how many stories do you hear of brown people being treated the same way? Very few, because no one cares. Us hispanic people just work and keep our heads low. We get the jobs done no one else will do.
Now, I'll take it one step further. How many of white folks from fly over country have the same kinds of stories to tell. You know the ones people call white trash. They look a little bedraggled and their skin is wrinkled and they look older by 10-20 years than they really are from the hard jobs they have to work. Hillary called them the Deplorables. How many of their stories do we hear, when cops or other people are treating them as less than human and they fear for their lives, if they don't do exactly as they are told? You don't hear many, because again, no one cares.
My point is a simple one. We all have our stories and no one race has a monopoly on suffering. It's just that some races are more obviously being used by the politicians for power plays. At the end of the day, life isn't fair. We're talking about race, but we might as well be talking about how some people are taller, more beautiful, smarter, more athletic, born wealthier, or a whole host of reasons why they have more money or opportunities than others. It's not fair and life is never fair. This idea that life can be made fair is a fantasy.
The only thing that is real is what you do with your life and how you conduct yourself. If you make the best use of your talents, you can achieve an equality of sorts with anyone else...in this country, you can. Few other countries can claim the same. I feel for the man below, but did you know I was called a wetback all the way through middle and high school? Even my friends would whip that one out in front of girls to embarrass me. I never let it show and I learned to have quick comebacks and to play on being the ladies man Cuban stereo-type to compensate. So yes, I know what it feels like to be treated unfairly. I know what it's like for teachers to look at you when something is stolen or something goes wrong, as if brown skin increases the likelihood of your culpability. But so what? I was born smarter and tougher and I worked harder than all those other kids, because the alternative was the hell that other hispanics and blacks have to live through in their poverty. Wealth is the great equalizer.
Life will never be fair. Black folks are going to have to figure out a different way. Beating people up, looting, stealing, remaining uneducated, speaking with ebonics, dressing like criminals, looking down on the blacks that make good as if they were traitors to their kind, and all the other things that puts blacks at a disadvantage need to be corrected within their culture, if they have any hope at all. If I was black, I'd teach my kids exactly what my dad taught me. A mentally healthy person is someone who rejects victimhood mentality and identity politics as the inherent slavery that it entails. Democrats seek to use blacks for their purposes. They take for granted the black vote and get pissed off when a black person has a different opinion...You remember Biden claiming if you're black and don't understand why you should vote for him, "then you ain't black." Biden proved how naked their desire to enslave black people is. Black people have to fight back in the only way that works. Take control of your own life by taking accountability is the only way to live your life. Create your own wealth and then you'll have true freedom. It worked for me. |
