June 4, 2010
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Race Relations!
A terrorist organization runs Gaza and uses its people as shields - but Israel is the bad guy. The anti-Israel voices who I have been talking with seem to think I love Israel and give it a pass for all its misbehavior - that certainly isn't what I meant to imply! No, what I meant to imply is that Israel has the right to defend itself and that in the case of the flotilla they exercised that right even if a little hamfistedly.
That being said, Israel treats non-Jews like crap. They generally don't kill Christians or Muslims but they do treat them like second-class citizens. I have little doubt that Israel would abandon its alliance with the United States if it didn't need us strategically. They really don't seem to like us...though most countries don't like the U.S.
The United States is like a rich relative nobody likes but everybody pays attention to so they can get some cash. America is dangerous and rich - as both of those qualities wane the world will treat us with less and less deference. Canada and Britain are like friends who find us a little annoying but still hangout with us. Otherwise I'd say America doesn't have any true friends. Europe smiles at us but it doesn't like us. Russia and China only want our cash.
For the record, I'm apparently a Jew...and a Greek...and an Arab...and a Native America...and a Euro-Mutt...and possibly African too. Apparently my ancestors were lovers, not fighters. That or my family is involved in a genetic version of Pokemon - we have to mate them all!
Wow, spent way more time on that blurb about Israel than I meant to...
RACE CARD IS IN PLAY
My sister and I used to be mistaken for twins and now we look nothing alike. She's mistaken for being Greek, Italian, or Hispanic on a regular basis - which is to say she's brown. I am never mistaken for anything but a white guy. Nobody ever bothers categorizing my whiteness. My father, 100%~ Dutch, is the dark parent. My mother is the reason I am cursed with an inability to tan (thanks Ma).
My sister and I are treated differently because of our skin tones...well, that and she's generally considered "hot" and I'm considered "Her Brother." But back to skin! My dad is flagged in airports for looking "Middle Eastern" - his name and actual pedigree couldn't be more white without being named Blanco McWhiteyskins. My mother, on the otherhand, is so white that only Janet Napolitano would mistake her for a "man-made disaster."
POLITICAL ZING (the HEADSHOT of blogging!)
I see color - I'm not visually impaired. But otherwise it's just coloration - it lends novelty and some indication of ancestry. I've encountered racists in every shade so it's irksome to have that albatross hung solely around the necks of whites. THAT'S RACIST. And you know what? Almost everybody loves chicken. Stereotyping blacks as "lovin' them some chicken!" is ridiculous. If you eat meat you probably "lovin' some chicken" from time to time.
Racism isn't going away as long as we let people use it as a weapon.
Comments (2)
That last line pretty much says it. We will know when racism has left us, when using it as a weapon loses its punch
@trunthepaige - racism has been in style for centuries and the people who complain the most about it seem to be the ones who use it the most so I doubt it's going anywhere soon.
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