Rant on Hate

I'm going to do something different in this post. I try to keep my politics to my other blog, but the point of this blog has it's roots in politics, so here we go. This Monday, of course, we elected a new president, a man of color, Barack Obama. No matter how you feel about him winning the highest office in the land, based on his politics, he won. Despite our country being full of moronic racists assholes, he won. We all have different prejudices. We'd be lying to ourselves to think that we don't. This is mine. I am extremely prejudiced against racist people. It is very hard for me to tolerate this type of person. To my own detriment, at times, I will tell anyone what I think of them and their warped opinions. I grew up in a family that taught me to be colorblind. Until I was near middle school age, I had never imagined that there were people out in the world that actually still discriminated against people based on race. Before then, it was history to me. People harboring this kind of hate within themselves repulse me. And now, let me get to the reason I've set off on this rant.

My mother and I went to do a cleaning job today (as we do 3 days a week). I must note now, my mother has a HUGE amount of friends, and double the acquaintances. One such people, today, felt obligated to send mom a barrage of text messages on her phone. Each one, a more grotesque representation of racism through attempted humor. Upon hearing, what would end up to be the most tame of the messages, I was thoroughly disgusted. My frustrated response was (more hateful then I'd actually act on) that someone needed to burn a cross on her lawn. After hearing the others I was ready to go beat the crap out of her. Not likely to happen, I do strive for peace LOLhahahhahahahhahaha. No really I do.

I guess, besides my rant on assholes here, the message I'm trying to convey is: Speak up when people are being jerks. Not saying anything, when someone is telling a racist joke or complaining about people based on race or religion. Complacency breeds hate just as spreading the evil thoughts does. Have the balls to tell people how you really feel. The haters aren't afraid of the repercussions to there speech, neither should we.

(I'll read any comments, but if they are hateful, they'll be swiftly deleted)

Thank for reading
sarah