Racism Reconsidered 1

I love the way you write. It's enlightening. Yes, I suppose I am an autodidact. I'm also somewhat narcissistic. You say that you make individual judgements about people, but what do you do when you continually or continuously see the same behaviour in a race. South Koreans like to say that they are hot-tempered and have a kim-chi temperament, but if other races say so, they are offended. Among some blacks, it is common to use the word "nigger," but if I said it among blacks whom I thought were my friends, everything would become quiet and everyone would have a death-wish against me. I suppose it is all a matter of context. On a deeper level, why do so many bad things happen to good people like Job? Is it racism or is it simply the impersonal functioning of the Universe? God responds to Job by asking him, "Who are you to judge me? I am the Ruler of the Universe?"

Well, there's what Americans call "reverse racism," but it's all racism to me. Reverse racism is what disempowered people do to people who are "racists." We like to talk about preferences and tastes these days but in the end, these all come down to prejudices. Our prides and prejudices are so interconnected though. I sometimes read Tony Morrison and she seems to me like a major "reverse racist" to me. So does Chris Rock. They are all playing the same game though and what's the point of playing that game. It's all part of the same picture and blacks will lose in the end.

Or course. blacks have a right to fight racism with racism, but is that the best solution? Perhaps they should fight racism with real stinging truths about white people and yellow people. Some blacks say white people are "ice" people which is a huge generalization. Blacks could say whites have taken their music and reaped profits from it by lightening it, "whitening" it and that's true. The blacks had alot to do with the creation of rock and roll and they do say that. Blacks could say that white people tend to think that all black men want is a white girl. I saw a documentary on Jazz and it implied that all that the Jazz musicians wanted in the Paris of the 1920's were white women and they were fully content with that. Jazz is greatly appreciated by a great number of Asians and Americans and we want the music but not the black person who produces the music. Black is seen as an extreme both sexually and otherwise, but look at the pornography now, it's very extreme and yet there is very little criticism of pornography. White culture thinks it can absorb all minority influences and make it white but that's an impossibility. The culture will explode and just become nature. In fact, these days, I analyze culture along more biological lines. White people don't like stereotyping or at least they say, but you step out of those stereotypes and most white people and yellow people don't know how to react. Stereotypes are about control and men generally want to control people as where women want to understand the situation and control the context. There have been Jazz musicians who have fallen in love with Japanese women and the family totally rejected him because he's black, but the notion of "blackness" has been shaped by our need to control people as well as fantasies of power. Do we really see other people or just our projections of them?