Hatebreed
Whilst cruising around town in our paroxysmal uber-suburbanite minivan this evening, The Wife and stumbled across yet another truth.
We were talking about the current state of "Race Relations" in these United States. I thought back to when I was in school. When I was attending school, I never new any kids that were different from me, at any type of fundamental level. When I was in elementary school, I lived in a very small town in northern California. We had one family of black Americans in the town. Another family had adopted a Korean boy. I had one black boy and one Korean boy in my class. In sixth grade I remember a great source of befuddlement to all us students. The teachers were trying to explain what "racial discrimination" was and how it was so bad. None of us could understand what it was. In looking back, it wasn't until the concept was introduced to us that I looked at my classmates any differently.
Looking back nearly thirty years I came to the realization that in our society, to a great extent, discrimination is largely taught by those who purport to decry it. In order for it to exist, knowledge of difference must be taught, conversely, if it is never taught, it isn't known. We hear so much carping about how racially divided our nation is, but it seems the only people doing the dividing are the ones who are gaining something creating by the difference. Whether it be to get face time on TV, or gain some sort of subsidy, or the simple power of name recognition.
These same people that say that children know no differences are the ones who are pounding their own prejudices into the children they claim to hold up as an example.
I wonder if those same people look in the mirror at night and truly believe, "It's my fate to hate", for they are indeed breeding a nation of dissolution, discontent and hate.
We were talking about the current state of "Race Relations" in these United States. I thought back to when I was in school. When I was attending school, I never new any kids that were different from me, at any type of fundamental level. When I was in elementary school, I lived in a very small town in northern California. We had one family of black Americans in the town. Another family had adopted a Korean boy. I had one black boy and one Korean boy in my class. In sixth grade I remember a great source of befuddlement to all us students. The teachers were trying to explain what "racial discrimination" was and how it was so bad. None of us could understand what it was. In looking back, it wasn't until the concept was introduced to us that I looked at my classmates any differently.
Looking back nearly thirty years I came to the realization that in our society, to a great extent, discrimination is largely taught by those who purport to decry it. In order for it to exist, knowledge of difference must be taught, conversely, if it is never taught, it isn't known. We hear so much carping about how racially divided our nation is, but it seems the only people doing the dividing are the ones who are gaining something creating by the difference. Whether it be to get face time on TV, or gain some sort of subsidy, or the simple power of name recognition.
These same people that say that children know no differences are the ones who are pounding their own prejudices into the children they claim to hold up as an example.
I wonder if those same people look in the mirror at night and truly believe, "It's my fate to hate", for they are indeed breeding a nation of dissolution, discontent and hate.
posted by PipeRain at 10:31 PM
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