"Yes, I am right now imagining a black Hitler and a white Selassie. I can do this not because I'm insane, but because I know no difference between black and white."
So does that mean I must give up my right to be Black?
Just because you decide this for yourself does not mean I have to give up "Black is Beautiful", "Black Power" or "I'm Black and I'm proud"; for someone to try and take that from me and my people is a hateful thing. It has taken a long time for the Black Power movement to get this far, I'm not going to sit by and watch (mostly white) people take that away from us. How can you suggest that it is a good thing for Black people to go from being the first people on Earth, to live stock, to just one of many who are all the same. Maybe you are looking for assimilation but I refuse to accept sameness as a consolation prize for the buying and selling of my people for the purpose of building a superpower with free labor. Am I to say to my ancestors who were slaves that my generation's goal is to assimilate without accountability for past and current injustices? Where are the people trying to sell this idea to the Jews? Do you expect the refugees of Rwanda to assimilate? Do you expect the survivors of Hiroshima to assimilate? How about the Palastinians, are they also to assimilate?
"So for me it is simple to exchange black skin for white skin or vice versa. Of course, to make a change like that all the rest of history would have to change too. Black Hitler means Black Germany, if you want to maintain the history of racism. White Selassie would mean that whites would have been taken away from their homeland as slaves, if you want to maintain the history of Selassie returning to teach those slaves.
Superficial things can always be changed without making substantial changes to the plotline. "
What about cultural pride?
Are the Nomads of the Sahara supposed to assimilate with the Queen of England?
Are the Pygmys supposed to assimilate with the Mormons?
Are the Shiites supposed to assimilate with the Tibetan monks?
If we are interchangable than why are we all so different, or do you also not see ethnicities as valid differences.
What I really want to know is what is your proof that we are all the same to a degree in which skin color can be interchanged? Who are these people that are all the same, just diffrent colors and where have they been my whole life?
This theory is a falacy, even a fantasy, but not the truth. If we were all the same then we would all be the same, but we are in fact each different. For instance, Black people get sickle cell, white people don't. I've never met a Black person who has had a wart, but most white folks I know have had a least one. Black people are more prone to AIDS, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and lactose intolerance than whites. White people are more prone to skin cancer and sun burns. We have different hair types, rythms and speech patterns, Black people tend to have deeper/lower pitched voices. Every one inbetween Black and white tends to fall somewhere in the middle. But my point is this disregaurding someones ethnicity is just as bad as saying they don't have one and based on the fact that everyone has their own struggle, their own history, their own story to tell, assimilation is a trap; and a good one too. Once you assimilate you loose the diversity that makes Earth so beautiful. What if every bird was the same color and pattern. Just because they're all birds doesn't mean they don't have different catagories. Some birds are bigger, some don't fly, some eat insects, some eat fruit, some eat fish. Nobody says, they're all birds, one color bird is the same as all the other colors. And people don't say this because it's stupidity. Just as it's stupidity to say that the Mayans and the Aboriginies are interchangable. Or to say that the Zulus and the Cherokees are interchangable. I don't want to be a generic species that is interchangable with all the others. I want to be a Black Human Being with a history of Blackness and a lineage of Black people to pass down to my Black children.
If you want to be interchangeable go and join the group for interchangable people who are all the same, I believe they call it America. It's lead by a born again Christian who doesn't want science taught in school and doesn't believe that humans have anything to do with climate change or that global warming even exist because his God is going to come down from the sky and save him. By the way he's also started a holy war with an idea so that he could spread democracy by force to the uncivilized masses of the undeveloped world.
And when your God comes out of the sky to save you, be sure you have on your Nikes and your Old Navy sweatshirt so He'll know that you're one of them. Fall into the Gap.
"You must question your perceptions at all time, or you risk assumptions based on incomplete knowledge, which lead to poor choices and loss of power."
This comming from the same person who said that the leader of the White Supremancy campain, who's whole purpose was to eliminate all races other than the Arian race says, and I quote "You live in a world where his skin colour is an essential part of who and what he is. Where I live, it's just superficial."
Where is it that you live? I ask because I don't want to accidentaly end up there.
Ask yourself this question:
Am I willing to accept all the evils done to my race as the actions of my own ancestors and to accredit all the good that has come from my people to the peoples who have done horrible things throughout history, right now and forever, even though justice for my ancestors can no longer be brough up in conversation because there is absolutly no way to ditinguish my family's lineage from that of any others?
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