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To Racists

Stop Your Racism

By Iria Vasquez-PaezPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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Racism is silly, and it revolves around hating somebody for their skin color? It used to be a very popular sentiment before the Civil War. But these days, we are more enlightened and there are many people who are mixed race. Don’t stare at mixed people because you make them feel awkward. Racism is stupid. Some people cannot see this at all. They have no idea just how silly they sound. Racism is wrong because it is demeaning. You have all these racial slurs to throw at people who didn’t really do anything to you.

If my writing changes somebody’s life for the better, then great, but I doubt it will carry over to anybody. I worry about where this planet is headed because of all the deep-seated conflict we find ourselves in these days. Sometimes decisions have been made that do not have the greater good in mind. We are all human, sharing the same genes after all because we do not necessarily have glaring differences as some think. Racism started as an attempt to prove that the master race exists. Some people are not as bad as others. Sometimes ignorance is what drives racism in general.

Racial issues need to be addressed. Racism is wrong on many levels. Sometimes, the modern Nazi finds himself at odds with genetic testing that reveals he is part black or "impure" with other races. Some people who are 99.9% European do not have a hint of color in them because they are the pure racial mix that Hitler was going for. He not only went after races he was going after gay people and disabled people. He was making a mess of things in Germany, all the while looking for global domination. He was good at brainwashing people.

Intermarriage is not so bad. It means that people will have beautiful children. I don’t see why people get their panties in a bunch when people intermarry. There was a whole lot of unfair racism leftover from the Civil War in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Then with the passing of civil rights and integration, you would think things change but they didn’t. People can still move the United States and self-segregate in their own community full of people from their country. They can choose not to learn to speak English or mix with people, not themselves. However, at least some people try to mix. Some people actually bother.

Some take ESL. Some really work at it despite accents. They work to integrate. Others stay with friends of their own ethnic background and don’t bother to mix. Sticking with your own kind has the effect of emboldening the racists. Mixing between races, however, means that you are trying to get to know people other than what you already know. Socializing with different ethnic groups means that you get to know them. We are currently living in a time of useless extremist thinking. Some people do not know how to stop their alt-right ideologies.

Making friends with them is important because it means that they may yet reform and decide to be different. It is hard to talk alt-right sorts into believing in climate change for example. Climate change is real. But then again so is the extreme racism of the alt-right. More school shooters are white people, and there are more shooters who are white in general, as compared to the so-called Muslim terrorist. Although there are also plenty of those and they also need to stop their racism. Americans, in general, need to be less racist, which is why we have a bad reputation in the world right now because of certain people. This is why petty racism has to be ended in the world right now.

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Iria Vasquez-Paez

I have a B.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State. Can people please donate? I'm very low-income. I need to start an escape the Ferengi plan.

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