racism

5am thinking

It seems to me that most people like to organize, categorize, and label. That's great! Clutter is stress and stress is horrible for the human mind. Yet somewhere in this messed up society, color coding your  filing cabinets became color coding humans into racial division judged upon  the pigment of their skin color. This topic is so broad that I can't even begin to unravel my frustration into my writing, my confusion with some peoples morals has more background curiosity then my questioning behind religion, and this particular subject seems to blend in with that. First off, every single person in this world has a different personality, different background, different strengths and weaknesses, different opinions, different dreams and fears, different everything! Outside of physical similarities which have only to do with genes and DNA, mentally every single human being is an individual person, and should be treated like one. I'm not just speaking of immediate racism and comments among that but I'm talking about even the simple snap judgement on the separate races. all you can judge them on is the meaning behind their words. That's how it should be. There is no normal. Until someone knows for sure who created humans and what the "normal" one should look like, i hope to never hear about discrimination. For the science believers, a physical change is a transformation of somethings appearance with no alteration of the chemicals. Translated to fit this problem, the appearance of someone has no connection or effect on the persons self. you can categorize physical similarities (in which no kind is better, only different from one another), but there is no comparison from ones mental being to another; leave the "type of person they are" out of your judgement because until you can get to know someone there's no label that can capture the honest essence of somebody's true character.

Reviews

[Mari K]

Yes! It's so easy to judge people on the surface. If people were forced to evaluate others on their character, it would require a lot of self reflection, which wouldn't be something many would enjoy. I don't get racism or prejudice, but I have learned that no matter what happens, it is going to exist due to fear, ignorance and upbringing. Very good write. I enjoyed it.

[Meat of Dog]

I enjoy your writing; you have an interesting way of presenting issues so that they’re more individually relatable and unique to think about. Racism is such an over-debated and drab topic but things like the ‘color coding’ kind of made me smile because it is such a simple, obvious, and real concept that illustrates how simple the actual issue is. Honestly I would say that racism, just like classism and gender discrimination all boil down to the fact that despite being wonderfully individual we’re all lonely in our uniqueness, thus we strive so hard for acceptance. This can lead to little cliques involving how you dress right on up to racial segregation.

I agree that ‘normal’ is a washing machine setting. We have no deity to literally point down at us verbally/ visually and tell us what is ok and what is it (unless you follow a bible specifically and then even that has flaws) so to debate it eventually becomes pointless. Normalcy is decided by collective agreement within a single culture (in the US it’s normal to wear clothes in town and not normal to run around naked). The catch is it’s hard to turn an entire a*s-backwards society around!

I like the ending of this thought because you can break it down like this: I’m white. I’m male. I’m schizophrenic. I’m in my 20’s… A person could easily see me walking down the street and judge me as a whole in a very broad way but there are literally so many aspects about me they would not know about or not realize. Everyone is really, really friggen complicated!



Content Suggestions:

“coding your filing cabinets” extra space between ‘your’ and ‘filing’

“became color codinghumans” missing s space here.

“simple snap judgement on the” Judgment (no E in the middle)

“of somethings appearance” Needs an apostrophe