Of Racism

Of RacismBy PunkerslutIntroduction and Statement of				DNA is fully capable of becoming an intelligent, active,
OpinionThere are few institutions that are more				warm person. Whether or not someone is born of
deplorable than Racism. It is this vice-ridden belief, the				white parents, black parents, red parents, or yellow
belief that a man can be reduced to the color of his				parents, it is irrelevant. They still all have the same
skin when his worth is measured, it is this bigotry that				opportunity to excel in life in the particular fields that
has turned men into scoundrels, that has turned people				they wish to choose. For a Racist to argue that they
into heartless murderers and slavers. Racism does not				are defending their race, they commit heinous crimes.
count intelligence for a man, nor does it count				Not only are they defending something that holds no
ignorance against a man; it does not state that				monopoly on kindness or compassion, but they are
affection is to be valued, nor that brutality is to be				launching offenses on those individuals who certainly
detested. It states, and it only states, that one particular				are capable of suffering, who certainly can feel pain.
race is to be valued or judged, that one tone of skin is				By lynching those of another race, or tightening
either divine or satanic, that a person is only worth as				immigration, or fostering a hate for those who have a
much as the type of people he came from. In the				different appearance, Racism works to cause the
history of civilization, it was a vulture preying on the				downfall of unity and certainly defends nothing but the
superstitions of people all around the world. Those who				unchosen variable of
conformed to whatever society told them to				race.---------------------------"Ex-Governor Atkinson
commonly accepted Racism, just as commonly as				protested against this savagery. He was threatened
those with enough heart to feel have rejected it. This				with death. The good people were helpless. While
vile institution has profaned the minds of men, it has				these lynchers murder the blacks they will destroy their
turned them into monstrous beasts, careless and				own country. No civilized man wishes to live where the
heartless, brutal and cruel, in their pursuits to cause				mob is supreme. He does not wish to be governed by
suffering.To Racism, there is nothing but race. A man				murderers."Let me say that what I have said is flattery
may speak for all that he wishes, may argue for as				compared with what I feel. When I think of the other
long as arguments last, but if he is not the right race,				lynching -- of the poor man mutilated and hanged
the right ethnic background, then there is no difficulty in				without the slightest evidence, of the negro who said
the question. And it is but one question: is this man a				that these murders would be avenged, and who was
member of our race? Does he have the same skin				brutally murdered for the utterance of a natural feeling
color? Do his parents have the same skin color as my				-- I am utterly at a loss for words." -- Robert Green
own parents? Racism is simply a judge of that and				Ingersoll, Fragments From The Pen of Robert G
nothing else. It is not humane or rational in the slightest				Ingersoll.---------------------------Still, there are those who
bit. It does not ask: is this man humane? Is this man				draw their arguments from religion and the Bible.
merciful? Is this man accepting? Does he offer his				Ephesians 6:5, Exodus 21:2-6, Exodus 20-21, and
sympathies to those who may suffer?Racism is blind				Leviticus 25:44-46, are all verses in the Bible which
inhumanity. Without caprice, it will throw responsibility				condone slavery. Racists have used this as an excuse
onto that which no man can possibly be responsible				for slavery, to enslave those who are not the same
for: race. From this one creed, men have committed				genetically. Slavery is but a cruel institution that works
numerous atrocities. Racists have forced Jews from				for the small gain of a profiteer and works for the
their homes and barred them from work. They have				massive destruction of the mind and body of the slave.
whipped the flog against the stinging, bleeding flesh of				As I detest slavery, I must detest the Bible, as the later
the African human, whose life can be defined as toil				righteously and proudly defends the first. To state that
and sweat. They decapitated Asians who tried to				god has given one race the right to enslave another is
mine gold. Of every immigant to the United States,				not revelation. It is hearsay. Even so, if god condoned
they have put coals of fire on their back, much like the				murder and rape, would any person listen to it? Only
coals of fire on their own minds. They have lynched				the pious and religious would, as their minds have often
men with a smiling face, cast them out into the streets,				been restricted to what the church can tell them. To
smited them and beaten them. With scorn and hate,				those who are humane and rational, the abuses and
Racists have committed the contumelies that once				manipulative methods of the Bible are only atrocities to
were thought to only make up nightmares. That is my				mankind. To practice the Bible truthfully is to be
opinion of Racism.Arguments of				inhumane, uncaring, unfeeling, heartless, and brutal.
Racism---------------------------"You are now citizens of				However, the point is made: a god can condone
many of the States, and in time you will be of all. I am				anything, but that holds no foundation on what is right
astonished when I think how long it took to abolish the				or what is wrong. The religious Racists, some who
slave, how long it took to abolish slavery in this country.				have "Slavery is of God" as their motto, are combinely
I am also astonished to think that a few years ago				ignorant and malicious in ways not seen before. To
magnificent steamers went down the Mississippi				quote Frederick Douglass, the slave who fled from his
freighted with your fathers, mothers, brothers, and				plantation, "We have men sold to build churches,
sisters, and may be some of you, bound like criminals,				women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to
separated from wives, from husbands, every human				purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory
feeling laughed at and outraged, sold like beasts,				of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's
carried away from homes to work for another,				bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other,
receiving for pay only the marks of the lash upon the				and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are
naked bark. I am astonished at these things. I hate to				drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master.
think that all this was done under the Constitution of				Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go
the United States, under the flag of my country, under				hand in hand." [Narrative of the Life of Frederick
the wings of the eagle."The flag was not then what it				Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself,
is now. It was a mere rag in comparison. The eagle				1845.]---------------------------"As soon as our ancestors
was a buzzard; and the Constitution sanctioned the				began to get free they began to enslave others. With
greatest crime of the world." -- Robert Green Ingersoll,				an inconsistency that defies explanation, they practiced
"An Address to the Colored People," 1867, delivered at				upon others the same outrages that had been
Galesburg, Illinois.---------------------------There are those				perpetrated upon them. As soon as white slavery
who assert that since someone of a particular race				began to be abolished, black slavery commenced. In
committed a certain crime, therefore the entire race is				this infamous traffic nearly every nation of Europe
dedicated to committing such crimes. However, this is				embarked. Fortunes were quickly realized; the avarice
flawed reasoning. An individual's actions can only be				and cupidity of Europe were excited; all ideas of
representive of their own character, their own morals.				justice were discarded; pity fled from the human
An entire race is not a moral agent, just as a society is				breast a few good, brave men recited the horrors of
not and a government is not. Every sole conscious				the trade; avarice was deaf; religion refused to hear;
being is their own moral agent. To hold green-eyed				the trade went on; the governments of Europe upheld
people, red-haired people, or black-skinned people				it in the name of commerce -- in the name of
responsible for the actions of a very few, select				civilization and religion." -- Robert Green Ingersoll,
individuals is ludicrous. Yet, even beyond this, there is a				"Centennial Oration," 1876.---------------------------One final
bigger justification for Racism. According to certain				plea for Racism is to declare that one's race is
statistics, more African men are in prison or some				superior. That, for some reason or another, one's race
correctional phase than European men yet more				has produced better art, better technology, better
European men populate the nation. Some may argue				government, better literature, better people. After such
against these statistics, but I will not argue against				a declaration is made, one then concludes that one
Racism if it is at the cost of truth. From these statistics,				race is better than another. They conclude that a man
one may be quick to conclude that African men have				of one particular skin color holds more worth because
a tendency towards criminal activity. However, this is				of his ancestors, as compared to another man of a
still flawed reasoning. Consider how many African men				different skin color, who holds less worth because of
were in prison prior to the conclusion of the Civil War in				his ancestors. This justification is a fraud. Whether or
the south. I would be astounded if even one were in				not someone's father invented the telephone, it does
prison, as they were all confined to the prison of				not give them the right to torture unrelentingly without
slavery. With a mixed population of both white and				thought. The inventions and art of past do not give
black people, and prisons constituting most white				moral justification to anyone to be cruel or inhumane.
people, it would be equally logical to assume that				The inventors and artists have given us their genius so
Europeans had a racial inclination towards criminal				that we may better ourselves, so that we may
activity as it would be to assume today that Africans				advance our position in life. To take that for granted
have a racial inclination towards criminal				and state that is the reason that individuals of a
activity.However, from an objectively logical standpoint,				different skin color deserve no freedom or life is a
it would be easy to see that race has little if anything				credulous claim. Men, despite the acts of their fathers,
to do with criminal activity. If one were to study				can feel just the same, whether their father was
Criminology and to understand the reasons why men				Graham Bell or Thomas
and women commit crimes, they would understand				Edison.---------------------------"The average American, like
entirely that the reasons are poverty, opportunity,				the average man of any country, has but little
among other factors that are exhibited in those who				imagination. People who speak a different language, or
commit crimes. Being born of one race does not make				worship some other god, or wear clothing unlike his
any person inclined to commit crimes. Being born of				own, are beyond the horizon of his sympathy. He
poverty and corruption, being born in a government				cares but little or nothing for the sufferings or
that holds no respect for your values, these are the				misfortunes of those who are of a different
aspects that will incline a person to become a criminal.				complexion or of another race. His imagination is not
To say that one's race is important in determining their				powerful enough to recognize the human being, in spite
moral stature is tantamount to saying that one's hair				of peculiarities. Instead of this he looks upon every
color or eye color, or any other physical attribute, is				difference as an evidence of inferiority, and for the
important in determining as such. If 90% of the people				inferior he has but little if any feeling. If these "inferior
in prison had birth marks, does that mean we can				people" claim equal rights be feels insulted, and for the
conclude that individuals with birth marks are bound to				purpose of establishing his own superiority tramples on
be criminals? In fact, we can hypothesize even further				the rights of the so-called, inferior." -- Robert Green
beyond that. If 100% of the individuals in prison are				Ingersoll, "Should The Chinese Be Excluded?"
human beings, does that mean we can conclude that				1898.---------------------------EndingRacism is a profanity in
human beings have criminal tendencies and that they				the realm of logic and in the realm of humaneness. It
are deviant, cruel beings? As I have stated, a person is				does not endeavor to preserve that which has led us
not a criminal because of their race, their species, their				to glory, or will lead us to glory. To affection and
hair color, their eye color, or any other arbitrary,				kindness, beauty and reverence, it could not care less
physical characteristics. An individual becomes a				-- it has only one care: race. In this light, it may rightly be
criminal from tendencies that lead them to break the				called blind injustice. To a white Racist, they would
law.---------------------------"Some of the best people I				rather have a white rapist than a black philanthropist in
have ever known are Jews, and some of the worst				their community. To a black Racist, they would rather
people I have known are Christians. The Christians				have a black murderer than a white Humanitarian in
were not bad simply because they were Christians,				their community. Racism does not love virtue or mercy.
neither were the Jews good because they were				It only loves race, an unknown variable that holds no
Jews. A man is far above these badges of faith and				control over one's merits or value. By opposing
race. Good Jews are precisely the same as good				Racism, one affirms that individuals can attain value
Christians, and bad Christians are wonderfully like bad				and worth, no matter what color their skin. By opposing
Jews." -- Robert Green Ingersoll, The				Racism, one is both rational and humane. And I must
Jews.---------------------------There are those who argue,				oppose Racism, as it has caused countless cruelties
however, that by fighting other races, they are				across the globe, all for the sake of something so
preserving their own race. Some claim to get this				trivial, so unrelentingly unimportant as one's genetics.
reasoning from Evolution and the law of Natural				Life,
Selection. (It is astounding that it has never occurred to				PunkerslutPunkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been
them that Evolution is a a scientific observation and not				writing essays and poetry on social issues which have
a moral foundation.) Some of them may argue that				caught his attention for several years. His website
hate and love go hand in hand, that as much as they				provides a complete list of all of these writings. His life
love their own race, they hate opposing races. Yet				experience includes homelessness, squating in New
such claims are ridiculous and unreasonable. If I am				Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, getting
going to die for preserving something, it will be love,				expelled from college for "subversive activities," and a
affection, and reverence. Race is unconcerned with				myriad of other revolutionary actions.
any of those things. A person born of any particular

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