For the town of Tarborough, North Carolina
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Coco-Cola Super Bowl Commercial 2014 That Has Driven American Racists crazy!
I am a black dude with 55 years of American life behind me. I know with all certainty that the racist America I knew as a 6 year old child in North Carolina (I was born in 1959) is MORE racist today than it was back then. The only thing preventing lynchings from being performed on a daily basis across a wide swatch of America is FEDERAL HATE CRIME LAWS!
A whole lot of white America still believes white people should not have sex with, nor should mingle with, black people -- even in 2014!
And when a Cheerios commercial depicting a black man as the husband, a white woman as the wife and an obviously beautiful little girl as the daughter... who is also obviously of parents both black and white, the Internet social forums explode with the most vile hatred by the stupidest of our fellow Americans.
But, my main point here is this -- I want those of you out there who keep saying things like this have to be more complicated than just race are completely, ignorantly wrong. This is ALL about race. How do I know that...?
Look at the pictures and the names accompanying the racism that is all over social media. It is ALL WHITE PEOPLE posting that racism. And for every one white person willing to post that racist vomit, I am going to declare that there are 50 more white people who feel exactly the same way... without posting their views for the world to see.
We, the people of black color minority, have no problems with the mixing of the races. We have had to deal with having our own race mixed in with white blood since the first slave master raped his first female slave and produced their first mixed-race bastard child. And black people have been assimilating other races into black culture from day one!
Black people had only one chance of survival over the centuries. That chance came in our ability to assimilate, or be assimilated. Therefore, we... for the most part... do not freak out when we see a white man touching a black women. To us, that is the way it has ALWAYS been!
And white people? Seeing a black man touching a white women? Fuck no! That is not happening! Even as slavery gave white men absolute power to rape black women, OPENLY TO THE PUBLIC, for hundreds of years... many white people cling to that abjectly racist notion to this very day!
The fact that a Super Bowl Coco-Cola commercial featuring the MANY cultures and languages of America’s Americans singing an AMERICAN song drives the racists among us to rise up like a Cobra ready to strike is a sad commentary on the state of the White American Psyche.
For those of you who are driven by your racist paranoid delusions, I say... “Please, get some professional psychiatric help! It is 2014, not 1714!
And also, realize that it is WHITE people who are causing the racial earthquake in America! Black people just want to be left the fuck alone, allowed to be able to walk to the store and back without being ‘George Zimmermaned,’ allowed to be free of Stop-And-Frisk police behavior, allowed to make a few honest bucks to afford a place to live, to buy a car and to feed our kids... and to be allowed to be free from the horrible pressure of RACISM IN AMERICA!
RLJ
In my youth I did not realize my father was not racist, when we would come in from the fields [ we were farmers in Southern Ga.] everyone would go to the same table and eat and I understood much later that black people were supposed to eat on the porch.....I am so thankful for my Dad , there was not a racist bone in his body and nor mine.....Thank you Ronald , you inspire me!!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome... and I am filled with HOPE when enlightened people like you realize that words like mine are meant to expand our relationships with each other. In order to make America truly great, we all must come to the point in the vortex where we... allow each other to live in peace. That will be the time when America's people reaches their full potential.
DeletePie in the sky thinking? I sure hope not. I'm doing my part to educate as many people as I can to how truly easy it is to get along with each other. All one has to do is WANT it.
Take care...
RLJ