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Of Racism

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




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