“Would Brett be getting this kind of love if he was a black QB? Hell no!. The media would have called him everything, including the so-called N-word. Your thoughts, JW? I hope he loses every game he plays in. How disrespectful can Minnesota be to the other two QBs on the team.”
This comment is exactly what keeps racism alive! Michael Vick is a Black QB and he received more than fair treatment, and he committed a Federal Crime. Pacman Jones is a Black athlete who had been arrested about 13 times, and still was given opportunities...and I could list about 30 other Black men who have been in high profile situations and have been treated more than fairly.
Jason went on to write that the same day he received an email from his high school, best friend, Willie that read:
“I hate to say this, but if Favre was black, would he be a bad teammate?”
Again, I say...What the HECK does it matter what color he is. His team wants him back because he is a three time MVP, holds almost every single record for a QB in the NFL, and is approaching 70,000 career passing yards. He also had one of the best statistical seasons of his entire 19 year career last year, and led his team to the NFC championship game. Had it not been for 6 fumbles, and an interception, they would have made it to the Superbowl. So you really think the team cares what color his skin is? He could be purple for all they care...they just want the best chance to win.Again I say...DUMB, racist question from someone looking to keep racism alive.
I have to say that Jason did an OUTSTANDING job handling the question. He was objective and put it out there straight forward. I enjoyed the article...but the bigger issue that struck me is this...Will racism ever die?
Ask yourself this question...Had slavery never existed int he first place, what would the world be like?
There would still have been people who disliked other people for one reason or another. And, unfortunately, physical appearance is a major cause of dislike in this country weather it's based on the color of your skin, your smell, your look, your car, your house, or your body type. Sometimes, an overweight person may resent a slender person. A short person may dislike taller people for the same reasons, hence the Napoleon complex. People who are considered "non-attractive", may dislike an "attractive" person...ignorant people may dislike smart people. Maybe its from envy, or maybe they are just mad at the world...who knows.You get the idea.
The bottom line is that our society says that it wants racism to be gone, but they hold onto it for every single reason that they should be doing away with it all together. Everything seems to boil down to Black and White. Don't get me wrong...there are still some truly racists people in the world. There are plenty of opinions on the subject, as I am sure you know, but it seems that the people claiming racial oppression are the very one's being the racist.
I am white...and I have never owned anyone, regardless of their color. I know a ton of racist black guys who have never been a slave, or been forced to do anything against their will for that matter, but they are still mad at me because my great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather may or may not have owned a slave. Personally, I am not racist in the slightest way. I have many friends of all sorts of races, and I love them all. I dislike ignorance without bias based on color. If you are an idiot, White,Black,Chinese or whatever, who judges someone based on the color of their skin, you are a racist, but that doesn't mean that all those who share their skin color are to be categorized together. All white people don't belong to the KKK, all black people are not members of the Black Panthers, and all Muslims are not terrorists.
True racists exist and they always will, but until we can let go of the past and move forward as a society, racism as a culture will never go away. There are so many people who hold onto the days of their ancestors. They have been taught by their parents, and their grandparents, that these "people of another color" are bad and to be treated poorly. They are less human in some absurd way. They don't realize that their very teaching is what keeps racism alive. Their hatred filters down, generation to generation, and keeps the fire burning. The fact is, society is full of all sorts of people, and in the grand scheme of the population, there are a minimal number of true racists in the mix, comparatively speaking...the message in this is that a few burning embers should not a fire make.
How can we, as a country or society, ever get past the boundaries of racism, when we still treat it as if it is a part of our every day lives? It is the excuse that racist people won't let go of because they need it. How else can they explain why they are in poverty? Why they can't get a job? Why they are always in jail? Everything goes back to racism. I don't have a job, and haven't had one in almost two years, but I can tell you it doesn't have a thing to do with racism, or because we have a Black President. It is because of the economic state of our country. I see people as people, not as colors, and if everyone else would do the same, racism would be so minimal that it would only be noticed by a select few, and could be ignored with purpose.
WAKE UP WORLD. Stop making it about Black and White, and start taking responsibility for your actions. If you think you are a victim, then you will be. If you think you are oppressed because of slavery from 145 years ago, then you are a slave to your own ignorance. In today's world, the opportunities are limitless, and if you are in poverty, jobless, have 6 kids, on welfare, discriminated against, or WHATEVER, quit using your race or your family tree as an excuse...REGARDLESS OF YOUR COLOR.
White, Black, Arabian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, or Sasquatch...get educated, try to make your life better, and get off the pity party. As long as you take the issue back to racism, racism will still be here. It is entirely in our hands. We control whether it exists, so if you say you want it gone, then you have to take the first steps to eliminate it by teaching your children to love people for who they are on the inside. You have to accept that life is yours for the taking, and stop letting life's circumstances force you into "excuse mode".
Weather or not a person is black or white shouldn't matter how he/she gets treated, but until we decide to start treating people like people instead of colors, it WILL matter. The question then, is this...if we don't change our attitudes, what will change racism in our culture? If we don't stop making it about race, how will racism die?
Think about it.
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