ON MY SOAPBOX
Throw Out The Race Card
I
know some will not agree with me on this but I
am going to say it anyway. I am asking my Black
sisters and brothers to stop using race to fight
battles. A wrong is a wrong is a wrong,
regardless of who does the wrong or what race
they are. We all know that prejudice does exist,
and if we are honest with ourselves, we will
admit that prejudice exists within every race.
However, I believe that an injustice can be
exposed without bringing race into the situation
at all. If race is the motivation for a crime,
it will be exposed through the evidence without
race ever being mentioned. You can never really
prove what is in a person’s heart anyway, so
concentrating on the actual facts will serve the
case much better. Bringing race into the picture
will serve to weaken the case, in my opinion,
and cause wider divisions between the races.
We should be outraged when anyone is harmed or
killed without cause. What is the difference
between a Black man being unjustly killed by a
White man, and a Black man being unjustly killed
by another Black man? And vice versa – a White
man being unjustly killed by a Black man, or a
White man being unjustly killed by another White
man? Are all of these situations not WRONG? We
cannot put a higher value on any one of these
situations – they are all so very wrong
regardless of the root cause. Is a racial murder
worse than a murder motivated by greed or
jealously or power or drug addiction or sexual
gratification?
I am not suggesting that we pretend racial
prejudice does not exist, but I am saying that
we should not let prejudices (our own or someone
else’s) dominate our thinking and rule our
lives. I am old enough to have lived through
segregation in the deep South, so I by no means
take anything lightly. But I believe it is time
to throw out the race card when it comes to
fighting the battle of injustice. If we do not,
we will find ourselves on the other side of the
coin each time we commit an injustice towards
someone of another race, which could eventually
lead to civil war among the races. I do not
think that would be good – there is enough
hatred against Americans as a whole, so we do
not need to have hatred brewing amongst
ourselves. Find ways to make injustice look
itself in the mirror through facts and real
evidence.
Lastly, stop telling yourself that you are a
victim. Stop being angry because others will not
share their pie with you – make your own darn
pie and share the slices among yourselves the
way other groups of people have done in this
country. Start by REALLY supporting each other
and lifting each other up instead of trying to
out-shine each other, laughing at each other,
ignoring each other, lying to each other,
stealing from each other, killing each other,
disrespecting each other, hating each other . .
. you get where I’m coming from. In a nutshell,
truly LOVE each other.
--Rosalin Moss
Say It With Roz
September 30, 2014
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