Racism Lives On.
The title of this write up is quite disturbing
but I'd like to let you know that certain
factors and lots of thinking went into this
before coming to this conclusion.
What is Racism?
According to the Merriam Webster dictionary,
racism is the poor treatment of or violence
against people because of their race. It
can also mean the belief that some races of
people are better than others.
Welcome to the 21st century where there’s
justification for everything, even ills that are
supposed to be corrected are supported with
flimsy justification. RACISM happens to fall
under this category, it's a cankerworm that is
eating deep into the society and the hearts of
men.
The irony of this thing is that, where the
racism of the whites against the blacks is
reducing and is being curbed drastically,
racism among and within the black is
increasing by the day.
We're no longer made to feel inferior by the
whites, we're made to feel inferior by our
fellow black people. Imagine, just imagine,
there's now a discernment as to occupation
and things you can and cannot do as a dark
skinned person because you’re not fair or
you're not bleaching your skin so you can
look ‘fine’.
Gone are the days where employers recruit
based on merits and qualifications, they now
employ and pick based on skin complexion
leaving out efficiency and capability to do the
work.
I came across something that went viral on
social media where a Nigerian artist decided
not to use a particular vixen and model in
his music video because she wasn't fair in
complexion.
RACISM
LIVES ON
Like, is she supposed to kill herself because
she was created that way? I also read of
some Nigerian guy who went through lots of
cyber bullying because he was in love with
an Asian girl. Really? What happened to
'we’re one' or 'don’t judge me by my skin
color' or ‘I'm human too’, what happened to
all of those. So it's bad when it's been done
to us but it's not bad when we show the
same measure of wickedness to other people
be it white, black or Asian.
Whether you believe it or not, you're racist in
one way or the other, yes you. If not, why
aren’t you friends with that brother or sister?
Why can't you allow your children play or
have fun with those’ set of children? Why
can’t you allow your child marry that dark
skinned boy or girl? Why can’t you employ
that dark skinned sister even when you know
that she can do the work effectively? Its high
time we took a u-turn, change and do things
correctly for the benefits of all.
Racism is a ticking time bomb waiting,
growing and preparing
to explode irreparably which brings me to
why I said it lives on.
Be like the PANDA, its Black, White and
Asian.