I have been told recently that it is the worst insult to be
called racist. Yeah. You read that correctly. Being accused of racism is the
WORST insult one person can say to another. Really. I am just an insulting
person to describe what racism is and apply the definition appropriately.
Really?
I think that actually BEING racist is the worst insult. Of
course, racism-denying people don’t believe they are racist, and therein lies
the main problem with this disagreement over what is insulting and to what
degree.
How insulting do these same racism denialists think it might
be when they accuse of being anti-police, people who are only standing up for
fairness, equality of law, and justice for all? People who are exercising their
Constitutional right to free speech, to peaceably assemble and petition the
government for redress of grievances are anti-police? Really??
How insulting do racism denialists think it might be for New
York City’s “Top Cop” to declare that people do not have a Constitutional right
to resist arrest? I must have missed the recruitment posters for the “March for
your Constitutional right to resist arrest” event. Do they think that Eric
Garner’s family should NOT take that as the WORST insult? Really???
How insulting is it for Officer Darren Wilson to have no
remorse whatsoever about taking the life of another human being, no matter how
much he believes he had to? I have heard accounts by others of having to,
indisputably HAVING TO, take the life of someone to save themselves or defend
others. It is the HARDEST thing they have ever done in their lives. Not Darren
Wilson. “It” was a demon, after all. Hulk Hogan. A fiction, perhaps? Hmmm.
How insulting do racism denialists think it might be for us
to hear that they themselves are not racist because they have nothing against
black people, they just don’t like niggers. How about that n-word? Does just
using it, regardless of the context, make ME racist? How about the people that
actually speak that rationalization and really believe they aren’t racist? How
about those that never have ever used the n-word in any context? Does that
exonerate them from racism?
How insulting is it to be called the n-word? Can a white
person even understand how insulting that might be? Say, compared to being
called a cracker? Ooooh, are you soooo insulted by the cracker-word? Can’t say
“the c-word” because that is something else. Are the meaning and history of the
words equivalent in implication? How about the “folly of insult” that racist
people are always whining about... that insulted people are being overly
sensitive about being insulted? Yet, the racists are sooo indignant about being
justifiably and accurately called racist.
How insulting is it to read news editorials in mainstream
publications say that young black males like Trayvon Martin should stop
committing so much crime if they don’t want to be gunned down for suspicion
based on nothing other than race. Never mind that Trayvon was committing no
crime whatsoever and behaving precisely as the racist editorialist suggests.
Just minding his own business and stood his ground against a creepy aggressor.
An aggressor who was NOT minding his own business, but baselessly judging
another person then shooting them dead due to his own stupid assumptions and
prejudices. (But, don’t forget, Terri, Trayvon was “going for his gun”. We KNOW
that happened because Zimmy said it was so. Yeah, Zimmy’s head was smashed
repeatedly against a sidewalk, too, even though his bald noggin was never
smashed even once against a sidewalk, as per clear and obvious evidence to the
contrary.)
How insulting is it to have the racism denialists declare
that black people are targeted more by law enforcement and criminal “justice”
because they are more criminally inclined? Really? Might that not be a
self-fulfilling prophecy? You know, like if black folks are really just the
same as white folks, but the false perception that black folks are more
criminal subjects them to extra scrutiny and baseless assumption resulting in
the expected result? Oh, “number crunching” they say... just some figment of
some whining descendent of slaves’ silly imagination. Did they mention that
slavery really wasn’t that bad for black folks? Historic revisionism they say.
So many loving, Christian slave owners that gave the gift of Jesus to those
otherwise hopeless savages are just not appreciated for their love of the lower
black people. And Jesus.
How about those that just can’t bring themselves to say, all
by itself, black lives matter? How about proving that you really do NOT care
about black lives, by ignoring what black lives witness as their personal
experience? How about ignoring the pain of having a family member killed for no
good reason and then being told that the fault is their own for not having
family values? Really??
How about not listening?
Listening is love. Refusing to listen, REALLY listen, is not
being loving. How insulting is it to not listen to someone when they are
begging you to PLEASE listen?
I think people that don’t listen to a plea to really
consider what evil is in this world, I kind of think they are disgusting. I
think they do not care about fairness, equality of law, liberty and justice for
all.
I call them assholes sometimes. Because I think they are
assholes. And I still love them. They matter to me or I wouldn’t bother to weep
for their failure in humanity. I do this as I have my own failures to attend
to. I take responsibility for my own failures, but I will be damned if I will
take the blame for others’. What they choose to put out there is on them and
them alone.
