Once again I am depressed and, yes, once again its because of my parents. Its nothing too big this time, its just usual stuff that they keep telling me that aggravates me. If you read my previous blog, Connection, you will understand what I am again going to talk about....
Ok, so while I was at home, my parents gave me this whole lecture on how they are concerned about how connected to my roots as a black man. I do understand that I am black and with that skin color comes a lot of history and consequence. What really got me was how they were trying to make it seem that it was "ok" that I was hanging out with a predominantly mixed group of people. Now, don't get mad at my parents, you have to understand where they are coming from. My mom grew up in Birmingham, Alabama during the fifties and sixties, so she is very grounded and has a good handle on the world. My dad grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas and he was more out-going than my mom and dealt with racism a lot more first-hand. So, I fully understand where they are coming from but its just the fact that my brother and I never had to deal with the horrible prejudice that they had to deal with and I feel that sometimes that when I hangout with different races they feel somewhat threatened....
As I have said in Connection, I feel that one of the purposes in my life as I feel it should be in everyone else's lives is to break the racial barriers that surround us. It makes humanity so much harder to deal with. So it just depresses me sometimes when it seems my parents will always see those barriers that will separate people. It goes with other people. WAKE UP!!! As long as God is in charge, I really doubt that humanity will change. Even if every race except white was killed off, thousands of years later another race would spawn. That was just my little scifi excerpt. As Edward Norton once said, "You can't change the world, but you can make a dent." I dont know about you, but I wish to be that dent in the world even if sometimes my parents disapprove....
1 comment:
This may sound harsh, but like I've always said: "The main thing perpetuating divisions is black people." As I see it, black people want to 1) define themselves as a separate race through Black History Month, pro-black rallies, etc. and 2) stop racism by convincing everyone that they're the same as all the other races.
While it is important to know and understand your roots, you must get out of the past. Live in the now. Look to the future. Times are changing. There is plenty of opportunity for black people today. Look at politicians like Colin Powell and Condi Rice, celebrities like Denzel Washington and the Jacksons.
Just be yourself and do what you can do. Stop looking at the world in black and white. We've moved on to Technicolor.
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