I was raised to respect people of all colors. I was told through the years that we’re all the same inside even though we may look different on the outside.
You know what I’ve learned in the past few years? Every single time something like this happens - and it’s been happening increasingly - I just think what I was told as a kid is a big steaming pile of bullshit. I want to believe that we’re all the same, but as each passing week brings stories of black people acting like animals I...well, you get the idea.
The sad thing is there are hundreds of thousands more just like me. What am I supposed to believe? What I’ve been taught or what I see unfolding before my eyes?
I’m right there with you flint. My entire life (well teenage on up) I was taught the same thing. Everyone is the same on the inside etc etc...and I basically carried that thought until 11/04/2008. I absolutely do not feel or believe that way any longer. Not when witnessing the events that are taking place.
Now..I’m ready to fly the bars and stars in my front yard (although that flag was a symbolism of the states rebelling and NOT racism) simply because of the implied meaning.
I am sick of all of it. We have the liberals to thank for this crap.
You are not alone in your awakening.
Don’t believe the hype. People are people and culture is culture. People did this dispicable crime and people deserve to pay for it
I was told exactly the same things and found out it isn’t true through real life experiences.
I also struggle with racism, but racism is still wrong and still a sin, and you will answer to God for it. Yes, there are not a few bad black people, and statistically they commit more crime. But it is not fair to judge a whole group or any individual by a statistic.
There are also lots of good black people. I go to church with them. They are my friends and my brothers and sisters. They work hard and live good and moral lives.
When bad people do bad things, you are right to judge that behavior, but you have no right to judge them. You are a sinner, too. Hopefully saved by a gift from a perfect man who was tortured to death.
You and I are sinners just like the people in the video.
Not that I am any better than anyone on this thread.
Racism is sin. Period.