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I was thirteen when i first witnessed racism. I had known it was out there, I just didn't believe that it was as common as it really was. My religion teacher Mrs. Olmstead, a Baptist extremist, the kind who hate anyone other than the blonde haired blue eyed bastards that they praise. (She hated harry potter, so the bitch is NO friend of mine). There was an African American student who sat behind me, he struggled in his classes, but he tried. And I watched that women tear him apart day after day. Not offering to help him at all. Until I got sick of it. I finally went up to her after class, and commented on how she was abusing and humiliating him for no reason. I stated how she would help anyone who struggled, yet turned the other cheek to his struggles. My teacher would have none of it and reprimanded me for "raising my voice" and "questioning a teacher". Still I persisted, in hopes to change her mind. The response that I got was far from what I had wanted to hear. She turned to me looked me dead in the eyes and said "Well if you feel like such a good soul, then why don’t you go help that n****r yourself!” This was the first time I had witnessed prejudice and white power up close. All I can say is, there is a special place in hell reserved for the scum of the earth like her. But something became clear to me that day, no matter how much I wanted to ignore it, and live in a fantasy land, away from the news, and the facts. White power, and racism existed. And because of the color of my skin, I was contributing to the problem.
Just this month alone, President Trump (ugh it still makes me want to puke) has already taken it upon himself to use raids in order to roundup and deport immigrants who are here illegally or have not yet obtained a green card from our country. The leader of our country continuously blames many of our country’s faults on the vast amounts of majorities. Yet he is so smug and far too busy blowing Putin to even consider the effects that these remarks have on many honest, and hardworking American citizens. But unfortunately this cheeto or the psycho Baptist religion teachers aren’t the first people to ever show this discrimination. Our country has had a long and tarnished history of racial prejudice. And the line ends here, no more will I turn my head as everyday people just like myself are met with hatred and discrimation because of something as minor as the color of their skin. I will say it, I am ashamed to be a white male. I hate myself because of all that is linked to me. Years of segregation, slavery, prejudice and violence. I wash my hands of this disgusting and horrendous past. I am cutting all ties that I have to this group of individuals, as it is a group that only drags my good name through the mud.
It sickens me to think that in 2017 people can still look at another individual and see nothing more than the color of their skin, or just a minority. To every minority individual reading this article, I would like to personally apologize for the atrocities that the white man has continuously and tirelessly committed throughout history. And to every right wing nut job who has been personally offended by this article… go blow it out your ass. What is it that makes us so different, screw pigment we’re all people. And as much as I despise the church (never send your child to catholic school, they will grow up to resent both you and the faith) I am going to draw on one of their key teachings, a teaching that has been adapted into every modern belief system to date. Christ taught us that we are to love our neighbor as if he were our own brother. Yet every time I step outside my door I see an African American man being stopped because he was “speeding”. This is what’s wrong with our country. If we could just take ten minutes to really look into the eyes of a person of another ethnicity and not seem them as Black, or Hispanic, or Muslim but see them for who they really are, people just like you and me.
