Friday, February 20, 2009
The Boy Who Cried, 'Black'
So, Attorney General Eric Holder thinks we are all cowards for not talking about race. Um...has he been under a rock? That’s all some in this country seem to talk about. The thing is, most people don’t really give a shit what color a person is, they don’t typically focus on the skin color. (Well, unless you are some guilt ridden white liberal who votes for someone simply because of their skin color so that you can scream, ‘See? I’m not racist! I voted for a black person!’ Or the number of black people who voted for him because he was black. Please, someone, tell me you understand the irony here? This goes against everything MLKJr was for.)
When I judge a person, I base it on who they are, not what they are, (ie: girl, boy, black, white, etc). But I have noticed something that bothers me. The best way to state it is to tell you a really quick story.
Where I work, we get many tourists from all walks of life. Not too long ago, a black lady, who had been there before and had a great time, brought one of her friends with her to enjoy the day. After they were done at the park, they were out front talking to all of us about what a great time they had. Then, the black lady said something that didn’t sit well with me. She brought up her skin color. Something about black people in the Everglades, I don’t remember verbatim but it was stupid, frankly. On and on and on she went about her being black.
There we were, hanging out, having a good conversation, joking back and forth, laughing, and then she kills it by talking about the fact that she is black. No one CARED that she was black. Only she seemed to care that she was black. And that’s just the thing. Many people in this country don’t give two shits what color of skin you have. All they care about is what kind of person you are.
I know I’m not alone in that I’m getting sick to death of skin color being shoved in my face at every turn. “Oooh! The president is black!” Who gives a rat’s asshole? You know what I care about? That he is inept. A twit. A complete fucking joke. A moron. That he just passed a ridiculous stimulus bill. THAT is what I care about. I don’t care if he’s black, if his wife is black, what they do with their private lives, what they wear, what they eat, I don’t give a shit!
But some people simply cannot stop pointing it out.
While of course there are people who react piss poor to others based on their skin color alone, that is not the majority. Yes, there are still crimes being committed against people simply because they are black. (And brown. And yellow. And red. It’s not just the blacks, OK?!)
But it seems like certain black people in power, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, this Eric Holder asshole, want to blame every last thing on skin color. So here’s a message for those fools and any idiot who thinks like them:
If you would stop making such a big deal about it, it wouldn’t BE such a big deal.
I don’t care that the three mentioned above are black. I care that they continue to stir the pot about race when they really don’t have many ingredients to be stirring. Focus on the actual crimes against blacks and stop acting like we are guilty.
Yes, Eric Holder, you’re black. I get that. Can we fucking move on from that now? Let’s talk about who you are, as a person. THAT is what matters.
If you don’t want to hear this from whitey, then how about we listen to Morgan Freeman say the same damn thing I just did: “Stop talking about it!”
Der.
