White People... Carrying the burden of our forefathers

I am quite upset about the obvious double standard here at Progressive U so I decided to write a bit about it. I am an 18 year old white guy in North Idaho, I have good credit, and have been financially independent since I turned 17, live on my own in a nice two bedroom apartment, and pay for it all on my own, and have never had my parents give me anything (I do work 11 hours a day 5 days a week). Now I have a good life and I will admit that many people do not have the opportunities I do… but I did it on my own and it seems as though I am expected to do well because I am white, and apparently black people feel that it is the world doing them wrong when they do not do as well as I am. I have a friend who is Black (No, he is not African American) and he works in the same place I do, and he is upset because his credit is bad and he still has to live with his parents, and blames it on the fact that he is black…. However, looking outside at his car…. He drives an SUV with a whole bunch of speakers and crap on it. His fault, not “The Man” putting him down because he is black.

I have been reading a few articles and I will just go down the list on what I see and what I don’t like.

The police brutality against black people argument… If you didn’t mean it I thought you were joking. Are there racist cops? Hell yeah there are… Does DWB still happen, probably every so often… But is there a nation wide pandemic of rouge cops out to beat up black people? No, and you have to have something mentally wrong with you to honestly believe that. Guess what… white people get shot while unarmed by cops too. Oh and typically those people who get shot, deserved it… just because you are unarmed doesn’t make you not dangerous… and what got you in to that position anyway? Probably doing two bit thug things just like the white people that get shot for the same reason.

Black History Month, the most anti-equal thing you can possibly do… you can not fight for equality, then say “Perfect, now lets create a whole month dedicated to us” we don’t have white history do we? Nope. So how is that equal?

I wrote an article before on my blog about the double standard in the United States here it is... it is back from March 2008:

I wanted to write about relationships this week but I noticed something, and wanted to bring it up. This blog was inspired by a black friend of mine who had a “black power fist” on his pick for his hair… and then I noticed he also had one on his phones background. I asked him if I had a white fist in the air saying “White Power” if he would be offended, and of course he said he would be. Sri Sathya Sai Baba (what a mouth full) said it best when he said:
“Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
I am not a racist, I love all human beings. I love some more then others and its unfortunate that the English language only has one word for love, but this is not the point, the point is that in the world, and in my writings the United States holds a double standard in race relations. I have some black people in my family, although you can’t see it in me (although there is more white in Barack Obama then black, Senator Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from father -Source- but people can’t see that either). When I hear a black person refer to himself or a friend as a “N (Censored Hover For Word)” I will correct them, for the reasons I will outline below.
There are some good people out there fighting this good fight for equal rights in the United States, and I know we have come a long way in race advancement, but I also am aware we need to do more to advance the treatment of other races. We still have racist cops, and laws that are “unofficial” like DWB and other racist profiles and such that are simply counter productive. However, when blacks (and I will use the term black because there are other people who are NOT African, but still are black, for instance Jamaicans) call themselves these racist terms to call themselves, they hurt the entire cause. Its degrading to themselves and their cause.
Another issue that causes a double standard is different treatment, now I know Rev. Al Sharpton will probably be mad at me for saying this but I think he will live. We cannot get anywhere if we still segregate them. For instance, if the Federal Government pays for every black person to go to college, is that not still singling them out? We should be giving assistance to EVERY child that needs help going to college, not based on their race, but based on their ability to go and the effort they show to be able to go to college. I am all for the advancement of black people, and I understand that there are still some families who have yet to get their break… but there are some white children who’s families have fallen into ruts as well. I understand these children get grants too, but we need to remove the race from the equation.
The United States is still working on becoming a more race friendly country, but in doing so, and by trying to correct its past mistakes its still being racist by embracing this double standard. It is essential to see Americans as just that Americans, recognising race is okay… If you see me in a room of black people, and you want to identify me, you will call me the white guy. Its okay to acknowledge some one’s race, its not okay to single them out for it (apart from a description). I am proud to be white, and that is fine. I have friends that are proud to be black, that is fine too… but when we put ourselves above other people, or try to segregate ourselves by any means, we ourselves are the racists. Martin Luther King would surely ask that his brothers-ALL of our brothers be treated the same. That was the point, equality.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nowhere in that does it say “my dream is that my four little children get more opportunities then the little white boys” because he didn’t believe in that nor do I. We are equal and we need to acknowledge that and stop putting down the movement by degrading ourselves (and our race) and by not accepting assistance based on race, but yet assistance based on need of assistance.

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White people are not longer the racsist pigs that we were, but we might as well be... the Black population gets to run around with libales claims, while protected by that wall that we cannot fight back against because they are black, and if we argue back against them, we are rasict. Nice gig.

Coltra out.