I was reading Mira's post on her page about the impact of a previous post which subject was race. It's extremely boring to me taking about race, prejudice and racism because I'm king of bombed with the subject all the time. Still, living where I live it's REALLY necessary because a big part of our people is black or "mixed".
Let me make some things clear here before I start:
I'm not racist. I CAN'T be racist. It's like a latin american wating to be Nazi. I'm "mixed", "half-breeded" or whatever is the correct word. My grandfather is black. I have black relatives. I have black friends. I have black idols. (Yeah, I know that rock'n'roll started with black people!)
Still... I'm sure this post will have an impact.
Let me start:
I was thinking about writing something about it but as I said, the subject bores me. Then today after lunch, I was walking around the university and in a hall in the Geography school there was a wall recently painted with graffitti art. Stopped to see it and I read on the wall: "Power to the black people". I thought to myself, what the hell that means?
The first thing that came to my mind was: "Nazism backwards". In other times, black people was slaved, they suffered because white people thought that they were better, that they were a superior race. Now, world has agreed that we are all humans, all the same before the law and God and whatsoever. Mankind has been working to convince people that we're equals, no matter the "race", black, white, asian, jew... Now "Power to the black people" means to me that they don't want to be equal. They want to do just the same, that if they could they would slave white people to revenge they ancestors. What the hell?Is that kind of power they want? They already have! The most powerful man in the world IS black!
I'm not racist, I say again. I just can't stand the talking about how much injustice black people suffered all around. Slavery ended 121 years ago, in Brazil. They suffered a lot after that, I know. Of course they still suffer a lot due to prejudice but it's time for them to change their attitude about themselves and stop playing the "victim" role. Take the power, slowly but try it like any other person would do. We have black politicians, we have black rich people. I just don't think that "black power" is the way. It just shows that they want to prove the supremacy of the "black race" and not achieve equality.
Why not "Power to PEOPLE"? Why the thing has to be "Power to the black people"?
I hope I won't be misunderstood. But that's almost impossible since when the subject causes too much polemic people understand what you said they way they want to.
Have a nice day!
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