The comedian Chris Rock has a great routine about wanting credit for things you are supposed to do. He mentions (and I'm going to butcher this) "Why do you want credit for things you are supposed to do? You want credit for taking care of your kids? For staying out of jail? You aren't supposed to go to jail! You are supposed to take care of your kids!" He's right of course.
You aren't supposed to be racist either. In fact, it's awful to be hate someone just because of their skin color or religion. The reality is that you shouldn't get credit for not being racist either. The more you broadcast how not racist you are the more you sound like someone who wants credit for not selling meth to six year olds.
It's very obvious that we live in a society that loves to finger wave and preach to everyone. We also like to show everyone else how wonderful and compassionate we think we are. I see a lot of people on social media posting non-stop about how anti-racism they are. That's nice, and I guess it's better than being a racist, but it's still very self serving.
Honestly, I think that alot of the recent hype about racism is self perpetuating. Kind of like the banking scene in Mary poppings. The bank is fine. The owner of the bank is trying to have a kid put money in the bank, the kid does not want to, someone overhears that the bank is not letting someone have their money, people get concerned and start wanting their money, there is a run on the bank and the bank collapses. I think the more we scream about racism, the more the issue grows and the more problem we have. Are there racists in the world. Of course. We are all allowed to believe what we want to believe. However, the issue is blown way out of proportion.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, word for word.
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