Monday, April 28, 2014

Reparations should still exist because racism still exist!

Donald Sterling, Paula Deen, Bill O'Reily, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Richards. just to name a few multimillionaires and billionaires who are in high positions with great power who have expressed racism or prejudice to minorities that includes African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, and women in some way, shape or form. Add Donald Trump to the mix as someone who has made racial comments in the past. These people have plenty of money and with a large some of money comes a large amount of power. With that power it leads to respect and because of the respect they have from so many people their views and their words sway people to agree with them. It sways people to take their side and instead of forming their own opinions and feels towards a particular group of people they take on their views. This leads to racial discrimination which is the reason why reparations has to still exist in a world where racism still exist. With racism comes discrimination and with discrimination comes a hard time for those groups of people that receives the discrimination. I hate the fact that it has to be this way but because people will discriminate against someone based solely on their race, gender, sexual preference it sucks and unfortunately we have to deal with it. The Rooney Rule has to exist because people in high positions that run football teams have racism or prejudice instilled in their hearts. Just like Donald Sterling who feels that the players who are his employees he pays their bills and allows them to live a lavish lifestyle he feels he has the power to control their every move and they owe him something. He's not the only person with that mindset he just is one of the few people that got caught blurting out their true feelings. It sucks but it's reality that people have hatred in their hearts. To me racism equals ignorance and unfortunately it's just too late to change the minds of some people. Reparation has to exist because racism still exist and as far as I'm concerned it has to continue to exist. It's 2014 and we're still dealing with these issues. I wonder what the year 2024 will be like. I wonder is we'll unite as one or will we continue to divide ourselves from each other.

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