It's a bit like "Animal Farm". The Marxists are telling Black folks "you are special", because everyone wants to be special. They are saying to them "You are the most equal animals on this farm, but those other, racist animals are refusing to recognize your unique sameness and inherently special sameness, BECAUSE they are racist, so you need to come over into our pen... and together we will teach those racist bastards a hard lesson!". And, at the same time, people are refusing to recognize how promoting racial division that way is, in ITSELF, inherently racist. Neat scam, huh? Now they will come along and tell me how racist I am for recognizing their racism and countering it by promoting unity of humanity instead. They will tell me how I am part of the problem, helping "keep the Black Man down", by not recognizing his inherent and uniquely special sameness that causes him to rise above the rest of us mere animals.
So be it. it won't be the first time I've been called racist for promoting unity. They've been at this for a while now. The "racist" label doesn't even phase me any more. They've over-used it at this point, and it no longer holds meaning.
ETA: I have no real race. I am a mixture, a mongrel if you will, of Indian (feather, not dot), European, and - I didn't know this until I had my DNA tested - Black. There's even some Central Asian and Dot Indian (Bangladeshi) thrown into the mix for good measure. It's creating an identity crisis - I'm not sure now just which part of me I'm supposed to be racist against!
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So be it. it won't be the first time I've been called racist for promoting unity. They've been at this for a while now. The "racist" label doesn't even phase me any more. They've over-used it at this point, and it no longer holds meaning.
ETA: I have no real race. I am a mixture, a mongrel if you will, of Indian (feather, not dot), European, and - I didn't know this until I had my DNA tested - Black. There's even some Central Asian and Dot Indian (Bangladeshi) thrown into the mix for good measure. It's creating an identity crisis - I'm not sure now just which part of me I'm supposed to be racist against!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’