rACING AGAINST Racism- Reflection 17

I’ve learned many things about both race and racism that opened my eyes to a whole new world. I also realized that many people do the unthinkable because of their and and for their racism against other races. White people feared their inferiorirty to blacks and therefore there was slavery that controlled blacks and made them the inferior to the whites. After the blacks moved from slavery because of them beginning to speak up and hold uproars about their race they went to segregation with the abolition of slavery. But even then white folk still felt like they had to prove that they were better than blacks by causing lynchings and killings if a black person so much as looked at their wives. I’m baffled at the fact that there were many people like Emmitt Till, a child, who was killed because he whistled at a white woman. I don’t understand what makes people think they are so much better than others they believe that their fecal product has a scent of roses in bloom. The ethnic cleansing done by the Serbian military to the Bosnian people was another baffling event in history because while they felt that the Bosnians were not good enough to dwell in the same territory as their race, they still made it a point to rape thousands of the Bosnian women hundreds of time. The way I understand that is these women were good enough for your men to pleasure themselves but not good enough to be left alone to live and stay with their families? For fear of their own race being overthrown and becoming the underdogs, many of these military personnel became leaders who lead their people to kill others and think that it was permissible. I wonder about the people who were merely kids when these major events in history took place. How they grew up believing that their fathers and brothers and uncles and grandfathers were doing the right thing by killing all of these innocent human beings. See, I think this can be very juch avoided if there were people back then who decided not to tell their child all of the misconceptions about people of different races from theirs. Even now, I think of black children who will not befriend anyone who isn’t black. Sometimes I wish I knew what they were being taught in their homes by rtheir parents about the other race. I doubt that we would ever reach a point where we can be done with racism and prejudice. Although humans beings have a brain larger than animals, sometimes we revert to our prehistoric beings and think as though we have a brain no larger than a pea. As the age old saying goes, “Be the change that you want to see in someone else.” I just wish everyone knew that phrase.
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