Of Racism

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

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Of Racism