Dear Black and White People, My mother is 85 and more than financially stable, but she still unknowingly lives in fear of running out of paper products, sugar and coffee, she actually hoards it. Interesting enough this is the things she went without doing the great depression. She has unknowingly taught me and my sisters to always over stock with paper products, and I notice the same behavior in my daughter Claire. What she went through doing the great depression still affects her today. When you see African Americans protesting and fighting because of the verdict it’s because of the things our grand parents told us about white people. The stories about how we should never trust white people, the land they took from us, how they killed people and stole from us to gain wealth and land. How they kept them from getting certain jobs, and voting, raping and beating slaves, and how they treated our forefathers. These stories have been passed down from generation to generation, and when we go to school the history books tell us the same. They don’t live in fear that it will happen again, they boldly say in their behavior, that it will never happen again. When you see White Americans judging, and putting negative comments on Social Media, Newspapers, the NEWS about the reaction of the verdict, it too is learn behavior. You have heard stories about African Americans from your grandparents. The stories about how we can be dangerous, how we are like animals, lazy, dirty, dump, how we rather get government assistances than work, and not to mention how the KKK was originally formed to protect the white women from black men, all have been passed down from generations to generation. One race judging another race has been passed down from generation like money, and recipes. Just like my mother’s behavior has been passed down to me, and I unknowingly passed down to my daughters, and son. However, I don’t know one white person personally that has done any of the things above to me or my family. But you can’t get mad at grass for growing back after you cut it; the root of it all is fear. And, God is not the author of fear. We all love our parents, and grand parents but they mislead us, with their views on people of other races all because of their fears. Because they sowed a seed that has become a large tree that we can’t even destroy, because each time we try, there are ten thousands other seeds (people) still floating around to make sure it never dies. How long will we keep blaming others for what their great-great grandfather did to our great-great grandfather?
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 05:22:28 +0000
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