I Don’t See Race, I See People
April 20, 2006 | 22 Rabbi al-Awwal 1427
“Gimme a freakin’ break, lady.” - That was my internal response to a discussion I had with a group of white kids the other day while attending class. We were talking about the recent beating of a bi-racial man (let’s not call him black cuz that’d mean it was a black-n-white thing, which of course it ain’t) in Milwaukee. It truly, truly amazes me that in this day and age of “enlightenment” that folks simply cannot come to grips that certain parts of the society have got some damned issues. To put is bluntly, white folks is got some problems with niggaz. Yeah, I said it - cuz I’m mad as shit. Last year, yours truly had several nice run-ins with the police in Wisconsin (the Madison area - Wisconsin’s little bastion of liberalism [please…]) where I was both held at gun point (police were looking for a black male - came to find out they were looking for a 5′6″ man with a pony tail whereas I am 6′5″ and no, I don’t have a pony tail - perhaps the dispatcher was dyslexic) and then retaliated against me when I complained against the offending officer, which resulted with me spending a night in jail. When talking about this recent incident, many of the white students said it wasn’t a racial problem but a problem with the police. That the reason that the police beat the man is because either a) he deserved it or b) the police were bad people and would have beat up anyone. Of course, the fact that the officers basically gang jumped him, shoved objects in his orifices and called him racial epithets had nothing to do with the color of his skin. Read more this entry »
