"We People"

Firstly I will start out by letting you know that I am not racist, in fact my best friend is African American....and none of this is meant to be offensive....

My husband and I were discussing the NAACP and other African American people that we know and we found that there are many African Americans (almost every one that we've ever met, heard speak, or talked to) that still play the racist card. Now I'm not saying that there aren't racist white people, but with the exclusion of the KKK most white people aren't. In fact lots of white people would rather be black....So when I hear an African American person say "well I hope he's not racist" or "we finally got one of our own in the white house", "We are movin' on up", or any other segregating comment it ticks me off a little.

It gets old to hear African Americans sit back and say that white people look down on them, white people are racist, white people this, white people that, and then they segregate themselves by saying "we"...when they are only speaking of people of color.

Yeah I admit back in the day white people did African American people wrong, and no one tries to argue with that fact. Well at least I don't. I don't and haven't ever agreed with slavery...that was wrong, extremely wrong,  but it didn't happen to you or me personally and I don't feel all white people should pay for the sins of their fathers.

Last night I watched the NAACP, they mentioned the dream of Martin Luther King, saying that part of his dream was to see an African American president, however his dream was that we all are equal. However no matter how much white people see African Americans as equal to them, African Americans don't allow it to just be. White people are always in debt to African Americans and when white people say one wrong thing, they are pretty much persecuted, however it is okay for African American's to be racist against white people, and make white jokes.

I want to re-iterate that I am not saying that all white people see African American's as equal, and not ALL African American's look at white people in this point of view. There are many that do, however...just as there are many white people who do not see African American people as equal...I think that this issue is just SO old...and maybe we should let it rest....

If voting in the first African American president does not give a HUGE signal that we are finally seeing each other as equal I do not know what will.

My hopes are that this is not offensive to anyone, I am not trying to put down either race, I am just venting. (and not so much in an angry way, just getting a thought out there.)

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