Prejudism

[ilovemyglo]

Maybe you did not realize this but you have just made my blood boil:

When have you??
1. had problems buying a house in a black neighborhood? Oops sorry, you would never live next to such hoodlums.
My parents could NOT buy a house in an area of my town when my brother and I were infants.. and why? Because the current owner was not caucasian and TOLD THEM that he didn't want his house going to some "white uppity people". That was the only part of town that they could afford at the time that wasn't section 8 housing. So guess what IT DOES HAPPEN!
2. been followed around the store by a black person?
I ended up growing up in a prodominetly black neighborhood. All of the business were owned and operated by african americans and my friends were not white. I still remember being told not to go into the drugstore on the corner by my friends cause I wasn't welcome to shop for candy there. They had to take my money and buy some for me. The woman who owned the store taunted those kids for even being my friend.


Now, I know it goes both ways, believe my I do. I have family in Arkansas where there is segragated schooling still (YES IT IS TRUE!) AndI have seen to many ignorant people say things, but you are just as ignorant if you think that someone that is not white cannot be racist.
All it takes is education so that hopefully all of our children won't be.


ANother thought,
I am of Irish and American Indian decent. If you look at me you think that I am just white. My great great grandfather helped work the railroads and was treated worse than most could imagine. He was murdered by those he worked for because he asked for a raise to help his growing family. The could off him, not get in trouble and hire someone else instead of giving him a nickel an hour raise. My great grandmother was Cherokee Indian. Her family was part of the trail of tears. She couldn't even vote.
I do not blame an entire race for this, although the leaders were of European decent probably (how should I know!) and I do not blame the government and say I need retribution. I am me... all of me. I prove my worth every day with the choices I make in my life. I hope upon my judgement day when I stand before the lord God he sees me as Sarah, not a caucasian whose ancestors had problems. They aren't me and I am not them. I didn't suffer, they did. It takes a bigger person to forgive someone for something than to hold grudge.