Sunday, February 27, 2011

I saw a movie last night that was so sad and a scary reminder as to just how far back reverse discrimination really goes. Blacks weren’t being favored and given special privileges in 1913 like they are today, but they had more power than many might think they had.

The movie was a true story about a Jewish guy who managed a pencil factory in Georgia where a 13-year-old girl was found murdered. The black watchman accused the Jewish guy, saying he only helped to try to dispose of the body, and the Jewish guy swore he was innocent. Sure enough, the black guy was the one they believed and the Jewish guy was convicted and given the death sentence. Then the governor began to catch the black guy in all kinds of lies and inconsistencies and found that he had quite a record. The black guy even admitted he could “tell a good story.”

So the governor commuted the death sentence to life and everyone was pissed. So pissed that they broke the Jewish guy out of prison and lynched him. Because the guy was Jewish, no one was ever made to pay for it. Meanwhile, the black guy got off in less than a year as a supposed accessory and died in the 60s. In the early 80s what was a 12-year-old boy at the time came forth and said he saw the black guy kill the girl and that he threatened to kill him and his entire family if he ever told anyone what he saw.

Having been the victim of discrimination by blacks because I am both white and Jewish, this movie really touched my heart. While I know there are many good black people out there, I can’t help but feel all the worse for the whites of today who cannot have a black person charged for a hate crime should they be attacked by one for their color. And who are constantly being passed over in the workplace for minorities. Who are receiving harsher sentences than blacks in the courts. Who cannot have a White History Month, white TV station, white beauty pageant, etc, if they ever wanted one since they know they would be labeled racist. It also sickens me when famous blacks get off in court because the judge and jury not only fear being called racist if they convict the person but to avoid a possible riot as well.

How many more times must a minority lie and say they were called all kinds of racial slurs when they in fact were not after they got into an argument or a disagreement with a white person? Until people stop automatically believing them no matter what the true case may be? How many times must a minority insist they were picked on or complained on for their color when in fact it was really for their behavior? And how many more years must whites pay for what might’ve happened over a century ago, even though there’s no one left alive who had a hand in any of it?

No one should ever be the victim of discrimination no matter what their color, race, gender, nationality or sexual orientation, and no one should have fewer or extra rights either. Yet it seems that those who desire equality for all groups are simply dreaming.

Kim is so damn annoying at times. She not only tweets too much, but every day she’s posting tons of poor-quality face shots of her giant face on Facebook and it gets a little old. Is she trying to prove she’s not so damn ugly? Or is she just trying to set a record as to how many pics can be posted? People who do things in excess really annoy me at times!

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