{"id":1938,"date":"2015-06-23T23:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T23:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/site\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2017-02-28T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:46:08","slug":"sorry-but-racism-is-actually-about-people-or-cloth-cannot-be-victimized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/23\/sorry-but-racism-is-actually-about-people-or-cloth-cannot-be-victimized\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, But Racism Is Actually About People (or Cloth Cannot Be Victimized)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Stupidest Confederacy Meme Ever<\/p><\/div>\n

I marvel at the simple-minded idiocy that equates disliking<\/strong><\/span> a flag associated with a perverse system of racial\u00a0intimidation, hatred, oppression and subjugation with being some kind of bizarro-world reverse-racism against white people.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Apparently, caring about people over the morally bankrupt symbology of traitors and a society of slavers makes one a “rascist” as the sad meme shown here claims.<\/p>\n

Yes, some people think the battle flag was just a sign of “being a rebel” as if that were the ONLY and MOST SOCIALLY IMPORTANT USE<\/strong><\/span>. That is historical revisionism and textbook dishonesty and it is time grow up out of such childish notions. That flag was used in the real world for a specific purpose, not for immature high school kids to put on their bumpers while high-fiving themselves for being “cool”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For those who don’t understand what racism is, I will clear it up. Preventing whole classes of humanity from participating in the rest of society on the basis of race = racism. Enslaving whole classes of humanity on the basis of race = racism. Lynching human beings on the basis of race and denying them any form of REAL justice and a fair trial = racism. Creating systems of education that treat an entire class of humanity as inferior based on race = racism. Herding up human beings like animals, whipping them, beating them, killing them, raping them and discarding them like old clothes when they are no longer making you enough money = racism.<\/p>\n

Disliking a flag that was flown at bloody, horrible battles in a vain attempt to preserve a horrible form of government that intended fully to continue that system of racial subjugation (codified clearly into their constitution) simply because it was profitable for a geographical section of the country does not = racism. It means you aren’t a heartless monster who puts worship of a piece of cloth above the lives of their fellow human beings. It is far past time for facts to trump feelings and misinformation. i care about people, not colored pieces of cloth. It seems like such a simple concept.<\/p>\n

Always, always, always with the precious white people who have not experienced such treatment in the U.S. lecturing the rest of the world on how oppressed they are over a piece of cloth not flying where it was never supposed to be in the first place.<\/p>\n

A hundred million times over and then again, I will choose human beings over symbols.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

James Landrith<\/p>\n

Founder, Editor and Publisher,<\/p>\n

The Multiracial Activist<\/a><\/p>\n

and The Abolitionist Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I marvel at the simple-minded idiocy that equates disliking a flag associated with a perverse system of racial\u00a0intimidation, hatred, oppression and subjugation with being some kind of bizarro-world reverse-racism against white people.\u00a0Apparently, caring about...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,19,21,5],"tags":[102,110],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","category-tma-articles-and-commentary","tag-james-landrith","tag-the-multiracial-activist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-vg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}