landlords2dust (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} landlords2dust) wrote,@ 2006-12-01 20:37:00 |
|
Michael Richards should've been lynched
We don't live in a post-racist world, and judging from the posts on the threads in response to Michael Richards potentially paying his victims, white people still think they walk aroubnd innocent of this 400 year old tradition. Black people have not forgotten it.
Before white people pass judgement on a couple of guys looking for legal compensation for being verbally assaulted by "I'm-not-a-racist-Kramer," think about the 20-25 generations of millions of black people that generated the massive colonial construction of the industrial and agricultural might that the U.S. has become and have been compensated for the most part with ZERO dollars for 3/4 of the time blacks have been in the country. And the rest of the labor was compensated for in getting shot at by cops.
All the fucking "free speech" arguments are cold and pale, considering the rights you inherited through being a white american were silver-spoon fed, passed down through the blood, sweat, and tears of the people who gave birth to those two black men looking to be apologized to. We should be LYNCHING Michael Richards. That's not hypocritical, double-standarded, or "wah wah wah fight fire with fire wah wah wah. It's justice.
When white people do the enslaving and lynching for centuries, it's their idea of justice, now they whine when people demand even the slightest bit of compensation for being attacked after GIVING THEIR MONEY TO RICHARDS TO SEE HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's time that racists were fucking shot, shackled, and forced to work for free. This is the only solution I can think of for now.
The social disease that white people are inflicted with is the idea that each white person, as an individual should be judged individually for the way they think, act, or the amount they take a stand on racism. THe problem with this way of thinking is that racism isn't an individualized problem, it's a social one, meaning the collective interaction of all humans that depend on each other, as we are a species of collective engagement. White people think, I DIDN'T ENSLAVE anyone, so therefore they are free of any interaction within the way that racism still affects everyone. It's not about white people atoning, or apologizing, or even giving money, those are only band-aids to a larger problem. We can't expect an anti-racist society to spring forth through simply scolding our coworker or neighbors for calling a mexican a wetback or a black person a nigger. We need to find a solution to a socialized and institutionalized problem and the psychological delusion that affects people by acting together to defeat the manners in which we perceive racism AS A SOCIETY. We must socialize and institutionalize anti-racism, by popularizing it, making it loud, confrontational, and weaving it into the cultural fabric of our communities for generations, so that children grow up understanding immidiately that racism should be shot down fast, hard, and fiercely, as this is the way to defeat it. When it becomes a part of the way we grow up, we create a new psychological framework with one another, one that goes beyond the way David Letterman mediates an apology for a racist outburst by a careerless commedian, and makes it common sense to everyday thinking.
The way that slavery became so imbedded as defendable, justifiable, and common sense to white people is because chains, shackles, and lynchings were no different to white children than going to a picnic, singing along at the church, brushing one's teeth before going to bed...racism became and still remains an instinctual relationship that is developed through training. Anti-racism must attack in this manner, we need to develop social patterns that are instinctual in young people for generations, by instilling in them the courage to beat the shit out of racism whenever it rears its ugly head.
One of the biggest problems we have in the U.S. especially is a lack of thinking about the society we live in now as a part of a lineage of social interaction that not only stretches through time, influencing the general nature of racial relationships in our country, but also the mindset that racism is something that is overcome by one person saying or not saying certain things out loud. Racism isn't a dialouge between two people, or the thoughts of a white person thinking about themselves right now, right here at the moment they're thinking of themselves and what they believe they are or aren't. Racism affects and is affected by the relationship between EVERYONE for EVERY second that has passed in which EVERYONE across the ethnic spectrum relates/related/will relate to one another. When we accept this fact, we can than deal with the problem in relation to the way power asserts itself through the endless myriad of power relationships that exists.
We don't live in a post-racist world, and judging from the posts on the threads in response to Michael Richards potentially paying his victims, white people still think they walk aroubnd innocent of this 400 year old tradition. Black people have not forgotten it.
Before white people pass judgement on a couple of guys looking for legal compensation for being verbally assaulted by "I'm-not-a-racist-Kramer," think about the 20-25 generations of millions of black people that generated the massive colonial construction of the industrial and agricultural might that the U.S. has become and have been compensated for the most part with ZERO dollars for 3/4 of the time blacks have been in the country. And the rest of the labor was compensated for in getting shot at by cops.
All the fucking "free speech" arguments are cold and pale, considering the rights you inherited through being a white american were silver-spoon fed, passed down through the blood, sweat, and tears of the people who gave birth to those two black men looking to be apologized to. We should be LYNCHING Michael Richards. That's not hypocritical, double-standarded, or "wah wah wah fight fire with fire wah wah wah. It's justice.
When white people do the enslaving and lynching for centuries, it's their idea of justice, now they whine when people demand even the slightest bit of compensation for being attacked after GIVING THEIR MONEY TO RICHARDS TO SEE HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's time that racists were fucking shot, shackled, and forced to work for free. This is the only solution I can think of for now.
The social disease that white people are inflicted with is the idea that each white person, as an individual should be judged individually for the way they think, act, or the amount they take a stand on racism. THe problem with this way of thinking is that racism isn't an individualized problem, it's a social one, meaning the collective interaction of all humans that depend on each other, as we are a species of collective engagement. White people think, I DIDN'T ENSLAVE anyone, so therefore they are free of any interaction within the way that racism still affects everyone. It's not about white people atoning, or apologizing, or even giving money, those are only band-aids to a larger problem. We can't expect an anti-racist society to spring forth through simply scolding our coworker or neighbors for calling a mexican a wetback or a black person a nigger. We need to find a solution to a socialized and institutionalized problem and the psychological delusion that affects people by acting together to defeat the manners in which we perceive racism AS A SOCIETY. We must socialize and institutionalize anti-racism, by popularizing it, making it loud, confrontational, and weaving it into the cultural fabric of our communities for generations, so that children grow up understanding immidiately that racism should be shot down fast, hard, and fiercely, as this is the way to defeat it. When it becomes a part of the way we grow up, we create a new psychological framework with one another, one that goes beyond the way David Letterman mediates an apology for a racist outburst by a careerless commedian, and makes it common sense to everyday thinking.
The way that slavery became so imbedded as defendable, justifiable, and common sense to white people is because chains, shackles, and lynchings were no different to white children than going to a picnic, singing along at the church, brushing one's teeth before going to bed...racism became and still remains an instinctual relationship that is developed through training. Anti-racism must attack in this manner, we need to develop social patterns that are instinctual in young people for generations, by instilling in them the courage to beat the shit out of racism whenever it rears its ugly head.
One of the biggest problems we have in the U.S. especially is a lack of thinking about the society we live in now as a part of a lineage of social interaction that not only stretches through time, influencing the general nature of racial relationships in our country, but also the mindset that racism is something that is overcome by one person saying or not saying certain things out loud. Racism isn't a dialouge between two people, or the thoughts of a white person thinking about themselves right now, right here at the moment they're thinking of themselves and what they believe they are or aren't. Racism affects and is affected by the relationship between EVERYONE for EVERY second that has passed in which EVERYONE across the ethnic spectrum relates/related/will relate to one another. When we accept this fact, we can than deal with the problem in relation to the way power asserts itself through the endless myriad of power relationships that exists.
