The WORST Insult

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.

 

I can’t help but feel despair, but I will never, ever give up hope for redemption. The day I do that is the day I stop learning. And it is the day that I no longer want to continue living myself. Go on. Insult. I will listen. And I will respond and possibly insult, too.