Some times I start to think alot and right now I guess I have been doing a lot of it. Some things I just dont understand. History will repeat its self if you dont learn from the past and understand it. I didnt write this to offend anyone. Just to get my opinion off my chest.
I didnt really understand racism till i got in the army and now it seams everywhere. Its not because I grew up in a school with all white kids cause i didnt, not because I went to a college with all white kids cause I didnt. I went to high school and college at schools were it was not a big deal. No one said " I cant play with that kid cause he looks different", My parents didnt say " you cant play her cause she is brown/black" . When I was in the hospital for burns I shared a room with a little black girl. She asked her mom why god left her in the oven longer then me. Every one laughed and just said every one is different but its ok. I am not saying minnesota is great and every body gets along.
Its crazy, I didn't know what a cracker was until I asked a friend of mine at Fort Benning GA. I had to let my sister know what a cracker was, she didn't know either. My first experience was not of a white girl going after a black girl, it was a black girl not wanting me to braid her hair to go to the field cause I was a white girl. There was how ever a white girl in our platoon that tried to get all the black girls and some others in trouble. People getting mad and enraged thought me and my friend thomas did it. Dude we were to country girls that wanted to just get threw basic. I didnt care what people did on there own time, as long as it didn't get me in trouble.
Fort Benning was a very interesting place, I lived in a low income area. I was a poor e-3 and didnt want to live in the barracks so I lived in a mostly black neighborhood. I didnt have much trouble at all. People stared at me at walmart and at mcdonolds on exit 4. I guess people like me dont usually go there is what i was told. I didnt know what the big deal was. I was actually surprised by lower income white people and black people. Racism seamed to be a big issue and I couldnt figure it out but I had friends from all over so i didnt care. I had a nurse ask my NCO if I could by army standards have my hair in braides. At first i couldnt figure out why she asked then I caught on. My nco told her that army regulations were not written for race just across the board females.
Then I got to Riley.... racism is less in Kansas sorta... soldiers are mean to each other I learned. They treated you different based on how light or dark black you are. A friend of mine pointed that out to me. She didnt like some of the Lighter ones cause they were mean to her. But all in all i really didnt experience to much here.
Then there was this court cause of a 17 year old kid who got killed by a mexican mixed person. now every one is hollering racism. First a white person didnt do this. Second why did the 17 year old "getting candy attach someone and call him a cracker." But what ever stuff happened. The country was not there. We do not know. Media spins things the way they want. apparently this guy who shot the kid was defending himself and he was found innocent. In this country you should be able to get a fair trial. Society shouldnt determine the outcome of a trial.
My whole issue with this is how America responded to the out come of this trial. We are taught that you should not stereo type. But its hard no to do. When people start falling in to them that know better. If people dont want to be thought to be thugs cause there black then don't act like a thug. Work hard don't act in violence when something doesn't go your way. Change it. Martin Luther King didnt act in violence when he wante to fix a problem he used his head and used his words to get people behind him to change things for the better. People need to think about what he has done and others like him and fix things with your brain not violence. It wont solve anything.
