Bad News For The White Bigots
First of all, let me preface this piece by telling you that I am a white guy. But I am also a Canadian white guy and have honestly never really believed that there was any sort of difference between white guys and any other guys or girls anywhere.I believe we are all humanoids and that any differences between us are merely superficial and of no consequence. In fact, to me, it’s those differences that make us interesting, but not unusual as a species.
Many species in the animal and insect kingdom come in a variety of sizes, colors, and shapes. But unlike those animals and insects, we are the only species who seems to possess a bigotry about humanoids that are different from us.
This bigotry is most clearly seen in countries that are predominantly white. But that is not to say there isn’t bigotry everywhere because there is.
I’m not sure exactly why that is. And I can’t really speak for countries other than the one I have had the most exposure to, which is the US.
Where My Curiosity Started
I grew up in the border town of Fort Erie and spent a good deal of my youth in the neighboring city of Buffalo New York. Sometime in my mid-teens, I was downtown shooting pool at a pool hall on Main Street with a friend of mine when I first heard the word ‘nigger’ used by a white guy.
A very well-attired black man walked into the pool room with a custom made cue in a beautiful case. He got some balls, set them up on a table and started shooting by himself.
One of the guys at the table next to us said to the other guy, loud enough for the black guy to hear, “That nigger comes in here all the time. He’ll hustle your ass if you get into a game with him.”
I was shocked and so was my pal, Jim DeBeau. We had never really heard anybody talk like that. And you could definitely feel the tension level rise. We looked at each other and then realized that this could have been the beginning of a situation that would eventually involve the cops. So we got the hell out of there.
That little exchange stayed with me for a long time because I wanted to understand it. As I grew and became educated and read some books on the subject, which included Black Like Me, I started to realize that, though black people in America had been emancipated by the Civil War, the feeling of a great many white people through the generations, was they were simply inferior as humanoids.
This racism is so deeply ingrained in many Americans that it really doesn’t take much at all to bring it to the surface.
But black racism is really just part of a larger bigotry that many white people possess. And I believe this is a bigotry powered by the fear that the white race, if not defended, will someday disappear.
Not being a racial or religious bigot of any sort, I find it hard to understand why it would actually matter to people who are essentially just a shade of the humanoid species.
Bad News For The White BigotAs you can see from this chart the number of white people in the world is in a reasonably steep decline. This chart will eventually become meaningless because, as my friend Charlene Norman wisely noted in a great conversation I had with her yesterday…’The human race is going to end up the color mocha.”
And she is right. When you have an integrated world, which despite the many efforts to change that somehow, the white minority will eventually be overtaken and disappear into the spectrum of other colors that make up the world’s population by pigmentation.
This is inevitable. My great, great grandchildren will probably not be white. And I don’t really give a damn.
Because despite all the ranting and raving and white supremacy bullshit and racial intolerance and bigotry and wringing of hands, nothing is going to change it.
Humans Always Worry Most About The Things They Have No Control Over
How many lives have been lost to racism? How many people have been sacrificed at the altar of some fanatic’s idea of a master race? How long will it take before the world finally gets over itself and quits trying to stem this tide? These are all questions I ask myself.
And this racial bigotry is really just the tip of the iceberg. There is social bigotry. There is educational bigotry. There is religious bigotry. There is political bigotry. There is the bigotry of economic imperialism. And when you lump all of them together, all you create is a very, very messy world.
Gene Roddenberry Is Flipping Over In His GraveIn the world of future fiction, as depicted in series like Star Trek and Star Wars, the people of earth are seen as ‘earthlings’. They are many colors but nobody sees the difference. There are many ideologies and religions, but everybody respects the other person's right to be that way.
Why? Because they are unified as a species. They revel in their minor differences. They don’t stratify and turn everything into a ‘who is better than who’ pissing contest.
They have realized that there is absolutely nothing to be gained from trying to alter the course of evolution with bigotry or racism or sexism or misogyny.
The Last Dying GaspBoth my sister Sharon and my friend Charlene have come to the same conclusion which is that what we are seeing, not just in America but in many parts of the world, is the last dying gasp of the white (or pink, as sociologists call them), race.
They are expending huge amounts of energy and creating huge amounts of havoc fighting the inevitable.
To me, at least, it really is a form of insanity. And the root of a great many of the problems that the world, and most notably at the moment, the United States, is facing and making worse by having elected a president with no real vision or any genuine desire to bring the world together.
But, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Bigots will come and bigots will go, but nature will have its way. Same as it ever was.
If your business has reached the point where talking to an experienced communication professional would be the preferred option to banging your head against the wall or whatever, lets talk.
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Harvey Lloyd
7 years ago #20
Jim Murray
7 years ago #19
Thanks Judy Mackenzie. Every country has its warts. Some warts are a lot bigger than others. The Trump wort is the biggest wart in the free world, He has made it Ok to be subhuman. And he should not be in any sort of position of power. he is the most toxic person on the planet right now. He has a lot of competition though.
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7 years ago #18
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7 years ago #17
Jim Murray
7 years ago #16
You're probably right, Brian McKenzie. What more can you say?
Jim Murray
7 years ago #15
Lisa Vanderburg...All you can do is what you can do. I write this stuff because it's what I believe I am saddened by a great deal of what the world has become for no reason other than to protect the white, the wealthy and the entitled. It feels like true democracy is becoming a fantasy.
Paul Walters
7 years ago #14
Lisa Vanderburg
7 years ago #13
Pascal Derrien
7 years ago #12
Jim Murray
7 years ago #11
Thanks CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit. I didn't know you knew Charlene. She's a marvel. I'm totally in love with her. I'm pretty sure we'll be working together going forward on different things we both run across. She told me about her situation. I talked with her for 2 hours yesterday at a Tim's. It was great. She's pretty much back to normal. She just needs to work on her confidence a bit more. I think I have convinced her that she is, in fact a writer, which she was doubtful about. Sitting in front of me with a published book, it was not that hard to do. She inspired this post in fact. What a small world indeed, I will send her your regards, sir.
Jim Murray
7 years ago #10
Jerry Fletcher...I agree. But I can only tackle on fucked up issue at a time. Otherwise my head will explode.
David B. Grinberg
7 years ago #9
Jim, also a very fitting post for the same day in history when civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. NatCivilRightsMuseumVerified account @NCRMuseum 11h11 hours ago Outside Rm 306 of the Lorraine Motel #OnThisDay in 1968, Dr. King was fatally shot at 6:01pm. He was pronounced dead at 7:05pm. #RememberMLK
Jerry Fletcher
7 years ago #8
CityVP Manjit
7 years ago #7
Jim Murray
7 years ago #6
Thanks . Right on the money and I would bet my house that all those powerful old white me are holding that country back and keeping it from becoming all it can be.
Wayne Yoshida
7 years ago #5
David B. Grinberg
7 years ago #4
Jim Murray
7 years ago #3
Thanks Don \ud83d\udc1d Kerr. You're right., I did kind of just pay lip service to the rest of the world. It is a universal problem. But as all the talking heads everywhere are fond of saying, the world looks to the US to set the example. Right now, the example is in deplorable shape.
don kerr
7 years ago #2
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