Social Justice Warriors

Social Justice Warriors are not taken seriously because the world that they describe is so alien to the experience of most people. Most people believe what the media tells them. Most people like to believe that someone else somewhere is in control, so they don't have to be involved or make a stand. White privilege is so far out of the realm experience for most people who look white. I say look because in America most people are mixed. People will go to their genealogy to point out that they are not mixed. The problem is genealogy is a lie based only on document trails. Mixed births went undocumented before slavery was abolished; this is a fact. People who seem white are oblivious to what white privilege because they don't experience how it actually manifests. We expect that we, as Americans, have certain inalienable rights guaranteed by the constitution. We expect justice and to be treated fairly, and are entitled to fight for our rights if and when they are violated; all the while, we live next door to people who we expect experience this same expectation - neighbors and friends who have a totally opposite experience in every arena of their lives. We like to believe this isn't true. We tell ourselves that everyone in America has a fair shake. This is the lie that is destroying our country. I was not fully aware of this until I moved to Missouri. My best friend and I were out shopping and they had music in the store. We were dancing around. She is always telling me that I am her twin. We are both optimistic, intelligent and assertive. I was looking for a job and I thought this would be a fun place to work so I put in an application. I was hired on the spot. Dave said that he liked my vibe - the very same vibe I share with my best friend. What I didn't know until afterwards was that she had put an application in before I did and they did not hire her. At first I thought maybe it was because I followed through and maybe she did not. As it turned out, during my first shift at work, my bubble was popped. There was a black man working there. My supervisor, a little white woman, was completely unprofessional and disrespectful to him in the way she spoke to him. Yet her treatment of him was not the most shocking part, but rather that he was so timid in his response. I looked around and everyone was acting like it was normal. How did she get to be a manager? I am used to living in an area where people who behave as she did would be considered ignorant and would be treated as a social pariah. Not here in Missouri: here in Missouri, any half-wit white person can be a manager. I had noticed a lot of odd things about Missouri before that, and it all made sense when I finally saw and understood. My best friend was denied a job because she is black. That is how white privilege works; economic sanctions against people who appear non-white. The extreme manifestation of this problem is that a stupid half-wit white guy is more likely to be successful in business while people who appear non-white have to work ten times harder. White people complain about the Negro College Fund and having to hire and rent to people who appear non-white. We live in a country where social justice had to be legislated because even after it was legislated, those the law is supposed to protect are still under attack on every level. Even when a non-white man becomes president, his birth certificate was in question. White privilege means no matter how awesome the merit and character or how successful a person is who appears non-white, he or she still has to deal with descrimination. When I told my best friend that I was going to stand up to my boss about the situation, she was worried about me. She was worried about me. You see, she would never think to stand up for herself because she has been conditioned by social and behavioral conditioning to expect to be treated unfairly. Gurl, you pull that shit on someone who appears to be white and there will be some ruckus. I told her that I had to because it is wrong and it has to stop. Until every American wakes up in a free country where they can expect to be treated fairly, America is a lie. People consider me extreme. How is it extreme to expect humans to be treated by other humans according to the content of their character and merit? In 2016 ignorance and superstition are destroying the world. That is an embarrassment for the entire human race. Civilization is composed of agreements between people. It is time that we agree to be civilized. Until next time... Blessed Awakening Article by Firestorm Coraxo