racist

I'm a huge fan of 24 (the tv series), but for the first time i was compelled to break from the spell and watch an episode of cold case on ch9. repetitve american dribble u say...yes maybe, but this case truely did move me.

It was set in the times when the black american struggle was really taking off. a story about a young intelligent black man who befriended a white lady, and paid the price. I have to say me and my brother sitting there watching, our blood was boling. i was so quick to spit at the typical white american who let this all happen. How can we take orders from a country which has hurt its own citizens so much. how did the world let these people destroy the lives of so many, why weren't they brought down like the nazi government. maybe it was too hard, maybe we were too busy imposing the white australia policy.

But during all this angst and hatred, i thought to myself, racism is not a white against black, white against asian problem. Its asians against asians, indians against pakistanis, blacks against browns. i am a racist, for those few minutes after watching the show, i was so full of hate, i wanted to make these people pay. but then a strand of maturity in my mind stopped me, gave me a rope to grab onto. I would only ever perpetuate all that happened over time. It all comes down to taking the difficult road, its so easy to judge and hate, to class everyone in groups. The difficult road is taking each person as they are, not my their skin colour, gender, sexuality...etc, but as one great man said, by the 'content of their character'.

don't be a racist, don't be a sexist, don't a homophobic...just open your eyes and make the best of this amzing world we live in.