You know, there is
a lot of shit going on in my life right now, yet here I sit, quietly plugging
along and knowing it will get better. I
am not bitching and whining (much) to anyone that will listen, or demanding "reparations"
for damages done to me by anyone else (although I do wish some people would
suffer from a permanent case of STFU), nor things that were done to my
ancestors.
What happened in
Charleston was beyond horrible, nine innocent lives were lost and even more
lives were changed in ways from which they will never recover. It is a tragedy that I will never
belittle. I feel for those who knew and
loved these people, they will suffer a pain that few of us know forever.
BUT, people like
Al Sharpton (NO I will never refer to him as a reverend or a preacher or even a
civil liberties leader, I am old enough to remember WHO and WHAT he was, what
he helped to accomplish and how he allowed himself and his morals to be
perverted into the hate mongering racist he is today) and a host of other
leftist idiots have turned this tragedy into yet another media circus. They are exploiting the unimaginable pain of
these families in order to push yet another point of their ignorant, hate based
agenda.
YES, slavery
happened. YES, the South left the Union
because, in part, of slavery. BUT, there
was issues besides slavery that led to the division of the Union, as anyone who
has EVER studied history realizes. TOTAL CONTROL of everything was one, and although some people meant the Government abolishing slavery, it was more than that.
Slavery was NOT
simply white men owning black men, women and children. It was so very, very much more. It was black men selling their enemies and
rivals to white men across the sea. It was white men, and women, taking
advantage of other human beings in order to make their lives easier. It was the total lack of regard for human
life!
BUT, it wasn’t
something new! Slavery had been around
since Biblical times, it was always a presence in those times.
The large majority
of people in the South DID NOT OWN SLAVES.
Most of us were poor, we didn’t own thousands upon thousands of acres of
land that we farmed, most of us lived on what we could trap, shoot or
grow. We weren’t all hate filled, whip
wielding “Masters” of the plantation.
That time in our
Nation was a horrible, evil time. While
the slaves were laboring in the fields, there were thousands upon thousands of
Native peoples who were having their homes destroyed, being shot, burned or
beaten to death and were fighting back the invasion of the White man.
The Natives of
this country had assisted the whites in becoming established, and in return
entire races were wiped out. Prior to
the Civil War, many of the tribes had been forced to leave the areas that
became the South, just as they had in the areas that became the North.
By 1861, more
Native peoples had been killed or forced to leave the Eastern part of this country
than the combined number of Slaves in the South at ANY time!!
The horror that
was slavery was equaled and, some say, surpassed by the disease ridden blankets
given to women, children and elderly Natives, by the rape and murder of women
and children, by the horror of witnessing some white skinned man grabbing your
child by the leg, swinging with all of his might and smashing his brains out
against a tree.
Beatings? Yes, Red peoples were still being beaten to
death by whites AND blacks alike. Rapes? Yup, that too. Hangings?
On a regular basis! Brutality of
unimaginable levels? Yes, each and every
day from the early 1500’s. Brutality on
the white part AND the red part.
Slavery? No, no red slaves, but there were indentured
servants, which is almost the same thing.
There were white men, women and children that were owned, hell there
were white SLAVES that were owned, the law said ONE DROP of black blood made
you a “negro” and you could (and would) be owned. But the Irish, the German, the Welsh, the
Polish, the Italian, etc that indentured themselves (and families) to come to
this country were essentially slaves as well. They had to toil in the fields, the factories and the whorehouses of this countries, as well as in many, many other ways, and they had NO SAY OVER WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM!
Natives peoples
had slaves as well, white ones, black ones and red ones. They saw no color to slavery, only
circumstances. Slavery was here before
the whites arrived. And when the whites
arrived with their slaves, it seemed normal to those who were already here.
The “flag of
Virginia” aka the Rebel Flag is a simple piece of material that has NO bearing
on what was done recently. Hell, the
first Confederate flag was NOT the one everyone is bitching about, it was a
flag called the Stars and Bars (look it up) and was very similar to Old Glory. But none the less, it is a piece of material
that holds no special powers.
The hatred that
prompted recent events is simply that hatred.
It isn’t some spell cast by a symbol of slavery, or a special power held
by a flag. It is a broken person (of
which there are many of ALL colors) perverting something to suit his needs.
And the deal with
Thomas Jefferson? WTF? Has this country lost its collective
mind? He was, regardless of his slave
holdings, an important, powerful man in the history of this country. Without him and his influence this nation may
never have been formed. Hell, the first
five of our Presidents were slave owners when they held office!! Twelve presidents of this country were slave
owners!
Should we get rid
of the statues and portraits of them all?
Should we stop teaching the history of this country because we had 12
slave owning presidents? Oh wait, we HAVE stopped teaching History, and that is part of the problem. Thank you Liberals!
Let’s take a step
farther onto this road of PC idiocy.
Andrew Jackson was
basically a serial killer by proxy. He
ordered the troops to systematically kill all Native women and children after
massacres in order to complete the extermination of the Red man. He was a genocidal
maniac who not only was responsible for uncountable deaths but also
participated in an estimated 100 duels. Are
the liberals demanding he be removed from history because of his crimes? NO, but when you throw in the fact that he
was a wealthy slave owner he suddenly becomes high on the list to abolish from
our history. He becomes a racist.
Why
isn’t anyone in history thought of as racist for their views and treatments of
Native Peoples? Or their treatment of
Irish, or German, or Chinese? When did
racist become a simple black/white issue?
And
WHY are we turning each and every horrible event into a racist issue? Why do we not hear stories on the National
News channels of blacks killing whites, or Mexicans killing blacks, or Chinese
killing whites? When did race become an
issue ONLY if there is death of someone who is considered black?
I
don’t identify when being white, I never have. I don’t identify with black, I
never have. I don’t even identify with
Native, because I am all of those things. I am a mixture of colors and cultures, of red,
black, and white. Of Native and slave,
of Irish and German. I don’t see hatred
in colors, I don’t see separation, I see people. I see evil, I see stupidity, I see ignorance
in people, not color.
I am a
product of the 1960’s, I have seen the treatment of black folks by white folks,
of Natives by black and white, of Vietnam vets by everyone. I have witnessed hatred in many shapes and
sizes, but never seen it as a color.
We,
this country, have descended into an abyss of stupidity pushed by people of ALL
colors. We have stopped feeling
compassion for our own, and by our own I don’t mean our own color, I mean our
own citizens. We take tragedies and make
them the new battle cry for this issue or that one, we exploit the pain and
suffering of families by flashing it across the television and internet like
the latest new music video. We have
become less than human.
The
people in South Carolina are suffering a PRIVATE pain. Now they must sit for hours upon hours while
tens of thousands of STRANGERS parade into the funerals of their loved ones,
not out of compassion, not out of empathy, but for the MEDIA GLORY of being
there. Those strangers never even knew
the victims existed! They didn’t know
them, or their families, or their beliefs, AND THEY DIDN”T CARE UNTIL THOSE
POOR PEOPLE WERE SLAUGHTERED!!
What
the hell is wrong with this country? HOW
have we become so divided and filled with hatred toward one another? WHY are we NOT moving toward unity, but are
moving farther and farther from it each and every day? Why has racism become the hot word of the
day?
What
about the children that suffer from hunger EVERY DAY right here in this
country? Does it matter what color their
skin is when their bellies growl and cramp because they have no food? What about the men that served this country
in all of the wars we inserted ourselves into?
Does it matter if their skin is red or white or black or yellow when
they lay cold and hungry on the sidewalks of our cities? Does it matter what color someone’s skin is
when they are dying from cancer or HIV or any other of a dozen of death
sentences? Does it matter to YOU? Would YOU only help a child that is
white? Or black? Or would you help ANY child?
Racism
is NOT the problem! The problem is the
media and the few power hungry idiots that insist on getting their faces on the
evening news, not because they owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes,
but because they are spouting hatred for others.
Wake
up!! This media circus that happens each
and every time something horrible happens is what PROMPTS more sociopaths to do
these terrible things. Kill a bunch of
people of a different color and go down in history! Yay!
WTF?
Okay,
I’m done. I will say no more on the
subject, except to say that my heart goes out to the families and friends of
those people slaughtered. RIP.
