Racism in America

Next, while I’m still talking about Asia, one last example that I’ll present is racism towards Middle Eastern people. 9/11 was a tumultuous day for all of America, but not only because of the loss of the World Trade Center, but also because who was the cause of it. Yes terrorists in the Middle Eastern had done wrong, and it is our right to have anger towards them, but it is not right to point our anger to all Middle Eastern people. I’ve also seen Middle Eastern ill-treatment here in America, as well as living through some of them, as one of my high school buddies was Middle Eastern, and at one point we were both called terrorists, him because of his heritage, and me because I hung out with him and defended him. The same thinking that applies to Eastern Asian racism applies to Middle Eastern racism where if one Middle Eastern is a terrorist, the whole Middle Eastern population on the planet is out there to kill and bomb us. They also face ill-treatment because of our intolerance of their beliefs and life culture. We also have to see something here. Yes the Middle Eastern had no right to bomb the World Trade Center, but we didn’t have the right to interfere with their political issues. These terrorists are mostly fighting for their religion, what they see is right, but white supremacy is a factor of why we interfered, because a lot of white people think that they are better than the Middle Eastern people and have the right to teach them what’s really right, or rather what they think is right.

                As you can see, racism is all around us here in America, and I only presented a few examples. We need to do something about racism in the United States, for then we can never truly be free unless we do so. The idea of white supremacy must be discarded if we are all to live harmonic lives with each other, not as different races, but as human beings, as mankind. Some of us need to swallow pride and pompous air for a moment, to realize that we are all the same, and can understand one another if given the chance. As the Declaration of Independence of the United States writes, “All men are created equal”, and I truly believe that, and so should everyone else on this planet, for as long as we continue to hate each other, we will never leave this path of misfortune.