Racists do not realize how ignorant they are. They victimize others by keeping annals against the victim’s situation. Racists have no remorse for their race’s horrendous crimes against the Aborigines, Africans, Arabs, Asians, or Indian people. And they cling to the idea that those they berate deserve it. They blame their scapegoat for their situation. Like a pedophile would mock their rape victim for depending on them for food or water.
With Blacks, the racist does not characterize us by our true heritage.
They go by the disenfranchisement of our people.
When you call out a racist for their reasoning, they call you a bigot. You should never put the mirror in their face and get them to reflect on the horror of their attitude even when they continue to estimate others by color. With Blacks, racism does not characterize us by our natural heritage. They go by the disenfranchisement of our people. Is he the underprivileged African, Afro-European, African-American, Mixed-raced, or Caribbean? They justify predetermined stereotypes by the many strifes of those people. They fail to realize that those people’s strains are a direct outcome of the particular cruelty they exercised over those people. Or what their ancestors did to the ancestors of those people.
I always encounter the reaction of individuals who do not think they are bigots. And those who do not pretend that they are not prejudiced. When they see me, a black man who speaks confidently against prejudice, they get confused about why I do not recognize their race as superior to mine. I reject the notion even though I immigrated to a predominantly discriminatory country. They want me to be grateful for the opportunity to live in their country. And they view where I came from as an inferior place to theirs. The bigots I encounter often squirm like a worm topped with salt when they experience my pride. Sorry bastard, I was looking for you to shine my shoes. Oops! Surprise! This bastard is not a shoe-shine boy.
We are looking for opportunities to regain our wealth which the so-called missionaries, explorers and slave traders took away.”
I remember living in Dunellen, New Jersey, where racists told me, “wow, times have changed!” Some said, “back in the day, we didn’t rent apartments to people like you.” The racists I met there seemed to be proud of how severely they wronged black people in the past. They frequently sounded like they missed the good old days. Yes, I am in solidarity with Blacks who are still suffering. Because of Arab, European, and American exploitation, many have nothing to live on in Africa. The racist does not realize that their ancestors decided to take advantage of the hospitality of our ancestors. And this is how come they had the opportunity to pillage, rape, enslave and criticize people who were not of European descent.
What does anyone expect? Your ancestors stole gold, diamonds, intellectual property, and even other people’s genes. How can immigrants be beneath you? Yes, you have politicians who can run to their parliament and make any law they want. You have governments that can deploy a powerful military in any part of the world. Yes, your country can build or destroy whatever little society thrives elsewhere. So guess what? Your status comes from the wealth that your ancestors stole from the relatives of many of those immigrants. That’s why they are beginning to live in your country.
I encourage any immigrant who uses what genius he or she has to get into Europe, America, or Australia and work for a decent living. At least they are not there to pillage or exploit the wealth as European and American ancestors did. This predicament that we, as black people, have and continue to endure is, in fact, unjust. We seek opportunities to regain our wealth which the so-called missionaries, explorers, and slave traders took away from our people and homelands. Some of us will steal or pimp it back, and some will work for it. History has shown that you would do the same. So why play by your rules if you’ve rigged them against us? Many of us do not see any race as our superior! We leave a racist to wallow in his or her ignorance.
Even though I only lived in Sierra Leone for five years, I have never been too bashful to declare it my motherland. My grandparents, parents and I were born there. We carry the Loko and Mandingo tribal bloodline. Many of my relatives are also Mande and Temne-speaking people. Nevertheless, I am also a very patriotic American and Canadian citizen. Some people prefer to hear what they want instead of what someone says. ALL Blacks are African! We have various accents, second nationalities, cultural upbringings, characters, financial statuses, or levels of education. But that has nothing to do with heritage! So in this regard, I am incredibly grateful to be an African-American man who knows his roots.
I have been there, could speak a dialect or two, and know about the music, cuisine, and culture! The shock to you is that there are millions of Blacks like me. That is another reason why a bigoted racist’s classification of beliefs, culture, nature, and so on only strengthens the ignorance in that line of thinking. Being African is one of the best heritage to have. We are proud black people! Because of the effects of European and American exploitation of Africa, we are now multinationals. Your country is our country, bastard! That gold, diamond, ivory, rutile, spring water, etc. It’s ours! However, here’s my attempt to inform you about the different kinds of black people.*