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posted by ToddBF
A dictionary defines Racism as: "The apparent genetic superiority of one set of racial preferences over another"

A dictionary defines Racist as: "One who employes a belief in the genetic superiority of one set of racial preferences over another."

The Media tends to define Racism as: "Any act where a Caucasian is elevated to any position above bottom if there is a person of any ethnicity in the same employment or educational situation."

The Media tends to define Racist as: "Any Caucasian is placed in a position other than bottom above anyone of any ethnicity in the same employment or educational situation."

Race Card is the devise used by anyone other than Caucasian to prevail they are right in any situation regardless of their correctness in the given situation.

It was once argued that black skinned people were inferior to white skinned people. This argument was based on false assumptions and miseducation. For years, nay decades and centuries, people lived with this assumption as truth and fact. Though it was wrong people uneducated their minds that skin color really made no difference in who the person was and what that person was capable of doing. For years people both the black skinned and white skinned made assumptions based on lies of a few popularized by the many.

Soon there came an era when black skinned people, shucked off the lie, and knew that they like their white skinned counter parts were fully capable of anything they put their mind too.

However when this era came, the white skinned peoples minds did not also shuck off those lies, the opposite occurred, the white skinned mind, powered by the few powered by the mob mentality hardened and solidified a belief that the black skin people were inferior to them. Some of them went with a political stance, they don't have rights, they can't vote so they are not equal, nobody thought to question who made those rules, the white skinned. Some went with a scientific mind set, they can't have rights, they are not healthy, they are not strong, they are not equal, again nobody questioned the fact that the treatment, lack of food and abuse might therefore be the reason why they are hungry and sick and ill and weak, again a situation brought on by the white skinned people. Some white skinned people thought themselves above all else and went with a spiritual road of superiority, with the use of the story of Cain and Abel and Cains mark "dark skin" of curse for killing his brother, of course though those who propagated this mistake in translation also the white skinned person. Eventual white skinned people began to get enlightened though it took a long time and a lot of effort and a lot of violence.

This was the true face of racism when one group of people held themselves above another group. This true face of racism, is for most parts dead today, sure there are a few pockets of infection left but in its truest form racism has been vaccinated and withered up. Black skinned people were allowed into the same job sources as white skinned people, they were allowed into the same restaurants, into the same school system, into the same life. Things became equal because people learned that when treated the same black skinned and white skinned people were fully capable of doing the exact same things.

But soon something happened, media, sensitivity training all gave way to the next generation of pseudo racism, or Media Racism.

Media Racism came when a black skinned student didn't get chosen for a college application but a white skinned student did. Media Racism began when a black steel worker got passed over for promotion but a white skinned man got it instead. Media Racism began when a Grade 6 black skinned girl failed geometry but a white skinned girl passed it with an A. Media Racism didn't check to see if the black college students marks were equal to the white college applicants. Media Racism didn't check the black steel worked work history and compared it to the white steel worker's. Media racism didn't look at the Grade 6'ers efforts behind the two different marks. All Media Racism saw was black skinned people were still behind the white people.

Media loves a good story and the black man seemingly being held back by the white man was a great one, and the only part of the story that media wanted to see, it never looked to see how much effort if any that one black college applicate had put into their scholastic studies, it never looked into the work history of the black steel worker, it never looked to see whether the black girl studied for her geometry exam.

The media sensationalized the few stories they could find and made the underachiever into the victim and the person who made the effort, which conveniently happened to white, into the villain. With the ever growing pervasions of the media, the new Media Racism gave a few exploiters a new tool to use to get what they wanted though they may not have deserved it. This tool is the Race Card. The Race Card is the field leveling tool, that is pulled whenever any black skinned individual slips below a white skinned person. The race card does not look at the effort of the individual, and the warranty of reward for effort, it rewards solely on the skin tone, as does it penalize on the same basis of skin tone or lack thereof. In effect it is a free pass card. and to an extent it had a purpose int the beginning of equality in order to give a chance until there was an ability to earn the chance.

Now the Race card has become an excuse to not make an effort, "Why try, when I can blame it on my skin or their skin color" to get ahead has become the emblazoned battle cry of the fight for equality. Where once the white skinned was holding back the black skinned through force, now the black skinned holds themselves back with a free pass to whatever they want.

One day I dream a dream that we all become color blind. I dream a dream of a day that we all become money blind. I dream a dream of a day that we all become station blind. I dream a dream of a day that we look to nobody but ourselves, and take responsibilities for our own faults and our own problems and we don't blame them on our skin, how much money mommy and daddy had, or what family we were born to, but to the choices that we make, and the consequences there of. Martin Luther had a dream and I have a dream, his dream of killing true racism came true, one day my dream of media racism dying may come true too.

posted by A.B
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