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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Albin Sadar
The first time I became aware of anybody's skin color was at age five in
kindergarten. My mom had come to pick up me and my twin brother, and one of
her girlfriends noticed that we were friends with one of the black kids in
the school. My mom's girlfriend remarked, "Isn't that sweet? They're
friends with a little black boy."
Even at five I found that remark unusual -- or maybe it was because I was
five. My brother and I played with kids because we connected on a "fun"
level. It didn't matter if they were different, or for that matter the same
, when it came to anything physical. To us, fun was fun. If you had fun
with someone, you played with him. If you didn't, well, you found someone
else to play with.
That's the way it still is in kindergartens today. Kids are just kids, and
they play with the kids who simply like to play with what they like. That's
it. That's how friendships are formed.
Children don't see a difference. But as they grow, the world surely teaches
them the difference.
There appears to be a movement afoot today to instruct children as young as
kindergarten-age in "diversity" in hopes that they'll learn "tolerance"
early enough to affect their adult lives. In other words, as soon as
possible, some adults seem to want to saddle kids with their own guilt or
phobias or angst. Good-bye, fun.
Elementary schools aren't the only ones getting in on the racial action. In
a totally different arena, churches are having racial unity seminars and
conferences to make their congregations aware of how differences in people's
skin color affect the way they grew up and how they live now.
Bottom line: race is a huge deal.
But, by rights, should it be?
This country fought a civil war over slavery based on skin color. People
marched in the streets and got brutalized, even killed, protesting
discrimination. People tried to make up for things by voting for a
president based on the color of his skin. The race thing has swung back and
forth, never in the shadows, always in the limelight. People have
certainly made careers and millions and millions of dollars exploiting this
hottest of hot-button issues.
So, when is enough finally going to be enough?
I've had occasion to confront people in New York City when they were being
racist: once on the subway, when others were turning away and pretending
they weren't hearing the verbal assaults; once right on Broadway, walking
next to a guy who was ranting racist things into his cell phone, making sure
everyone on the sidewalk heard him. I let these nincompoops know, loud and
clear, that they were being racist and that what they were saying was
unacceptable. (Later, a friend warned me to be careful because "crazy
people" can become incredibly violent. The sad thing was, though, that the
people I confronted, by all other societal standards, were completely "
normal.")
Racism needs to be confronted, flat-out -- but not drawn out.
One New York-area church seems to find it necessary to have racial awareness
panels every three months or so. I'm thinking of asking them, since I don'
t feel guilty personally about my own skin color, if I could set up a panel
for height awareness.
You see, I've had an advantage all my adult life because I'm tall. My
shorter friends can't reach top shelves of cupboards (and they're humiliated
when they see me doing that task with blatant ease). I've had dating
advantages, too -- girls don't like short guys (a documented fact). And I
could go on and on, if I weren't so danged ashamed.
I'm also thinking of starting a weight awareness group to dovetail neatly
with "height consciousness." Here, again, I'm one skinny dude, and that's a
huge advantage. If I can get together a panel of people 300 pounds and
over, and have them talk about what it's like being, um, robust, this will
definitely facilitate alleviating my feelings of weight superiority.
Of course, people would say that height and weight have nowhere near the
destructive history of skin color -- and that's true. They'll also say that
they're not the same thing. But that's my point -- race should not be at
all different from height or weight or eye color or hairiness or anything
else. We've made it a big deal.
Years back, at a small church in Pittsburgh, a pastor dealt squarely with
the race issue in the best way I ever heard. The minister was discussing
the passage where St. Paul talks about unity in the church body and that
there no longer is any "Jew nor Greek, Slave nor Free, Male nor Female" and
on and on (Paul had a pretty comprehensive list). At one point in the
sermon, the Pittsburgh pastor stopped short, looked out at the congregation,
and said, "If anyone out there is still caught up in racial differences and
thinks that the color of someone's skin means you treat them differently, I
've got one thing to say to you -- you're a loser!" Then he continued with
his talk, not dwelling a second longer on the issue.
To all those still not convinced that any form of racism makes you one big
loser, instead of going to seminars and awareness groups, rent the DVD of
Blazing Saddles. Within the first five minutes alone, Mel Brooks exposes
the shear idiocy of treating people differently based on skin color. By the
end of the movie, believe me, any remaining speck of racism will be laughed
right out of you. | P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 2 Quoted by a racist.
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: By Albin Sadar
: The first time I became aware of anybody's skin color was at age five in
: kindergarten. My mom had come to pick up me and my twin brother, and one of
: her girlfriends noticed that we were friends with one of the black kids in
: the school. My mom's girlfriend remarked, "Isn't that sweet? They're
: friends with a little black boy."
: Even at five I found that remark unusual -- or maybe it was because I was
: five. My brother and I played with kids because we connected on a "fun"
: level. It didn't matter if they were different, or for that matter the same
: , when it came to anything physical. To us, fun was fun. If you had fun
| b*******n
发帖数: 8420 | 3 诉诸感情而不是事实和数据，liberal喜闻乐见的手法。 | y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 4 他们有屁个感情.
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去了?
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加州中谷,为了几条猫鱼的感情,libtard可以把赖以生存的水源恰掉.
可是水源一掐,大家没工作,没饭吃,50%+的失业率,这些libtards感情又全都没了.
尼马,libtards有感情?
他们有屁个感情!
【在 b*******n 的大作中提到】
: 诉诸感情而不是事实和数据，liberal喜闻乐见的手法。
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