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