“I have an honest question…
Answer openly and honestly…
Do people think that the subject of race…is never an issue….in anything?
So…in my 39 years of living….you all believe that I have NEVER been discriminated against…because of my skin color? That it all ended in 1965? 1972? That I’ve sat around and heard the stories from my mom AND dad, uncles, aunts, everyone….the horror stories…….That NO ONE ever has looked at me or followed me around in a store? That I wasn’t frisked in a Woolworth’s when I was 9 while looking at toys? That I was ALWAYS followed around in a store as a kid for that matter. That I’ve been stopped 15 times for driving a Yukon Denali, asking where are the guns and the drugs……and NONE when I’m driving a Honda Odyssey with Harvard License plates? That no one has ever told me…“you’re different….you’re not like "them”……That every latino isn’t called a “Mexican?”, when there is so many countries that exist where SPANISH…and not MEXICAN is the primary language? That we never, ever…EVER experienced ANYTHING because of our skin color….that we just MAKE IT UP? We just complain too much? We are whiners and should “get over it?”. That I haven’t been called a NIGGER before? That I can’t even get on an elevator with a caucasian woman or walk by her without CLUTCHING her purse? That NONE of that…exists…….none of it?
We are all just delusional…right?
So what do we do with that? Just shut up? Just be quiet? Quit complaining? Get Over it? Be happy that we’ve “made it”?
So stop telling yourself…just because you think we are mad at YOU….whoever you are…that RACISM is not alive and well…and out of 39 years of my life….I’ve seen it…over and over and over….JUST because of skin color…
PERIOD….
FACE IT….
You may not understand it…it may not be a faction in YOUR life…but it exists."
-9th Wonder
