ALAYMAN said:
Gina B said:
If I'm wrong and you're doing something to help Zimmerman, please let me know.
non-sequitur
There are lots of injustices that people don't take a personal stake in, and by abstaining from action it doesn't mean they have any bias or prejudice necessarily.
I understand that. However, it seems that if people feel strongly enough about something to spend time analyzing and posting about it, logic says they would become involved in some way, shape, or form. Otherwise, why waste the time discussing it?
The race issue is one that is important to me because I've dealt with it in some way, shape, or form for my whole life. I can't have my kids and their friends walk out that door without worrying that the next George Zimmerman is out there and about a week ago, a white conservative Christian man put my daughter's safety in jeopardy because he saw two non-whites in a car and assumed they were stealing gas, so he took it on himself to follow them in his truck AFTER he called the police and not just follow them, tail them super close and when they wouldn't pull over for the crazy guy, he swerved in front of them and slammed on his brakes and blocked them from being able to drive, got out of his car, and started going off about stealing gas. These are two honor students who haven't had a day's trouble in their lives. They were scared. Their salvation? My daughter recognized the guy's voice and took her jacket off. (she had been huddled in fear in the corner with it over her head) and he said "oh, it's you." No apologies. When I called him, no apologies, just layers of changing reasons why. I didn't even bother trying to drag the truth out, it was obvious. And what are the kids supposed to do next time? My first thought would be call 9-1-1, but we just had a black kid who, by the reports, was shot in the back by police with witnesses saying he had his hands in the air giving himself up at the time. Is it true? Still waiting on the whole story on that one, but in the meantime, should I tell the kids to trust the police? The guy who stopped them is friends with the police. Would they have believed the white guy who is their friend or the "suspicious looking" teens?
You want me to be quiet and you think *I* am part of the problem because I'm willing to call this garbage what it is...RACIAL? No, I don't think so. There's enough crime and danger in this world. Nobody should have to be in further danger than they already are just because of their skin tone. It sickens me. Maybe you don't deal with it in your world, but I do in mine and as a human it's an obscene mark on human nature, as a parent it's just plain frightening, as a conservative Christian, it's embarrassing since that's where I see it coming from the most. "Good Christian folk," the type who won't let my kids on their doorstep and who see me and see white and think they can confide in me about how horrible it is that our town is being destroyed by all these blacks and "Koreans" and other races. I had to gently let someone know last month that "those Korean kids" not only aren't Korean, (apparently out here, anyone that looks Asian is Korean) they're MY kids and not just random Koreans invading their white territory. UGH No apologies there either, even though I was very nice and tried to make a joke of it.
Nobody ever apologizes. They make excuses or change the subject when they find out "oh, I screwed up."
And on and on it goes.
And the next one gets profiled.
And the next one gets chased down and has a truck slammed in front of them in the middle of town on a public road.
And the next one gets shot.
And those of us who speak out become the bad guys for doing so. We're crazy for seeing anything racial in this. We're paranoid. We enjoy throwing out the race card. Excuse me, but I DREAM of the day when race isn't a concern! Nobody should have to live in fear just because of their race.
Excuse me while I go SCREAM!
Maybe one day people will get it. I sure wish that day had come and gone already.
