Race Wars

Before I start on a very controversial subject, please allow me to voice my stand.  I am not prejudiced against other races.  I don’t like the term “African American” because it implies that everyone who is black is from Africa.  They are not.  I have black neighbors.  I love them.  They are the best neighbors I have ever had.  But I believe in keeping it real, and real is that unless you were born in Africa, you are not African. 

It’s true that there are more open mixed-race relationships than there were, say, two years ago even.  But racial prejudice still exists in both black and white races.  The blacks wants to blame the whites for the prejudice.  The whites want to blame the blacks for prejudice.  I say, “Just grow up.”

New President, Old Habits

The election of President Obama spurred resentment of both blacks and whites, both towards each other and towards the President.  I  am sure there are many Americans who thought they would not live to see the day.  There is still controversy over whether President Obama is black or another race, even among blacks.  Whites want to call him black because they want to use this as an excuse to slur another race.  Blacks want to call him black because it means one step-up for them on the ‘change’ ladder.  Old habits truly can be hard to break.  Prejudice is one of the hardest ever.

Mixed Relationships

I have seen racial prejudice lately when an young, white applicant was turned down at a job simply because of a relationship with a black.  The would-be employer was white.  Is this supposed to exist in America today?  No.  Was it the business of the employer to decide that the relationship was wrong?  No.  Did it matter?  Obviously not.  I personally think it is destructive for a white person to have a mixed relationship with a black person.  Why?  Because it’s like taking away from the original formula, if you will.  If we take coffee and pour milk into it, we no longer have coffee as a separate form or vice versa.  We would not normally use coffee on our cereal, nor milk mixed with coffee.  It must be milk to be the right liquid for the cereal.  Maybe this is a very poor comparison, but at the time it is my best example.  Mixing black with white changes the formula.  Black has a beauty of its own.  White does as well.  But when you mix them together, you now have gray.  The black is gone.  The white is gone.  If you do this often enough, you lose the unique race entirely.  Yes, you have a new race.  In fact, there are plenty of people who would say that would be an improvement,  but the original races have their own qualities that should be preserved.  Otherwise, the original races face extinction.  I don’t believe it is right to resent the people who do choose to mix.  Those people have the right to make their own personal choices.