After all, it's not like you invited it with your little rant about how tough it is to be white in today's world.
How old are you?
It's interesting. Mr. King spoke a lot about what you call, "your little rant about how tough it is to be white in today's world," except your intolerance goes even deeper.
He spoke of the resentments people of color have (including Hispanics...) toward whites. And just like many white people saw only what they wanted to see, that all blacks are not worthy as human beings (people of color resent that for good reasons), but of course all whites weren't racially intolerant, and many blacks and Hispanics thought of them that way anyway. Assumptions for all (except the people of color and whites who wanted to step up and shed those assumptions).
Not only did King speak about the backlash/resentments that would get in the way of racial harmony, so did Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, and many others.
To me it seems like we're stuck in this divide until we can stop comparisons and stop looking for reasons a certain person or group is better than the rest. Your words, "After all, it's not like you invited it with your little rant about how tough it is to be white in today's world. How old are you?" tell me yes, in your comparison to me you smell like a rose since you would obviously never talk about both sides of racism and that you're obviously more mature than I (age comment). My drunken family does the same thing, my eating of chicken and being gay make me immoral, and since I don't own a flip-phone I'm a social isolationist, and...
In comparison to you, everyone else looks like crap.
Mr. King et al. spoke about dropping those comparisons because of how they let our fragile, falsely boosted, egos tear us apart. How can we be unified in comparison? Since you are a better person than I, will we ever say, "I understand your words, and we feel differently, but you have a right to your feelings," or will only comparison and insults rule the future.
It's all up to us, and I hate thinking about the potential because it seems to get further away with more comparisons, more being 'better than,' more insults, more separation/segregation, and less coming together. And yes those attitudes come from all 'sides,' as many know and say. To say that racism doesn't affect whites is a little ostrich-like to me.
I wrote these a long time ago.
Racism Built In
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11gQIzvlfEecTMnotJJJC-TlbbQk9Ky7qb4BVvbUltzc/edit?usp=sharing
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Race
Why does color matter?
Its mention makes us sadder.
We don't know who we are.
That elusive goal of unity too far.
Instinctively we discriminate.
Rising above, a better fate.
For society’s sake,
nothing to take.
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Lingering Hate
Anger sometimes has a trigger finger,
racist hate like diseases linger.
For instinct states that we should fear
differences when they are near.
Oh, to cast off and forgive this righteous armor,
and live free, to learn to soar
above the madness we have wrought;
rocket science it is not.
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