Racism like Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
I have struggled to try and understand this elusive and temperamental word called “racism” for quite some time and just when I thought I had a handle on it, something else would happen to destroy just about every point I used to connect with that understanding. Every point except one which is why I strongly believe now that racism is not a condition, disease, result or reasoning. I now believe that racism is an excuse, convenient for some while inconvenient for others, but an excuse none the less. An excuse to dismiss or define actions or non-actions of others so that the person doing the defining can wrap their minds around the conversation and move on to yet another subject, issue or matter. I finally reached this conclusion from the below mentioned article just discovered. The article I refer to is titled “ Texas Teacher Says She’s ‘Sick’ of Black People ‘Causing Trouble,’ Called for State-Sponsored Segregation ” written by Goldie Taylor for Blue Nation R...