Someone hung a magnet around my neck when I was born. It attracts false charges of racist intentions and attitudes to me no matter what I do. I moved my backpack off a wall so that someone climbing from below would not reach up and roll it off the wall and fall backward onto the rocks below. For this crime, my magnet attracted the accusation of racism.
I walked into a public waiting area and sat among the women and children instead of going back to ‘hang out’ with an unhappy group of men I didn’t know. For this my magnet attracted extreme charges of racism and the group in the back of the room talked loudly of my bigotry and were agitating to beat me so that the women around me, who were not white and did not have this magnet around their necks, pulled their children to “safety” and moved away from me. The only way I escaped a thorough beating was that the staff called my name NEXT which I thought would get me a beating for preferential treatment.....
I was accosted by a massively muscled enraged man who blocked me on the sidewalk, drew his clench fist back as if to punch me and glowered at me in such rage that I hung my head frozen in fear, waiting for a beating. My magnet is strong -the fact that I was white walking down a sidewalk meant I should be beaten unless I visibly cowered in his presence.
My magnet attracted false charges of racism when I didn’t want to vote for an unqualified, inexperienced presidential candidate who said he believed in the redistribution in wealth.
No matter what I do or say, I can ALWAYS be accused of having racist intentions because I have white skin. It isn’t enough that I worship a God who created it us equal and that I love my friends and relatives the same regardless of whatever their skin color is. I’ll always have a magnet around my neck as long as I am white. Ironically, many of those who voted for Obama have the same magnet and the fact that they voted for him does nothing to diminish it.
Actually even if I were Hispanic it’d still be there. I would have it if I were mixed race because Obama’s mixed race means he’s not a bigot (African American) and if I were mixed race it would mean I am a bigot (White).
For about 20 years, I was a cute chick. You wanna talk about having a magnet on your neck...