Thursday, August 7, 2008

Discrimination exist?

...sadly it still does

Some bitter twist memory in the book field

I despise discrimination.
I already heard lots of stories of color discrimination going on in this world, but all the while I thought it is just some ancient issue. Well, my experience in Georgia, proved me wrong. Discrimination still exist, in a not-so-obvious-yet-obvious manner.

The southern part of US is well known with more African American population. People there defined them as Blacks, and people who defines them are normally Whites (American white), and for Asian, Yellows? jk jk. Never heard of any "exact color" for Asian, yet.
Giving color names is obviously a not-so-obvious-yet-obvious discrimination.

Blacks and Whites do stay in a same town. They do share the same post office, the same road, the same school, the same police station, etc. But, they do not share the same neighborhood. Normally the railroad tracks have additional task; besides serving as the road for the trains, they also serve as the ultimate divider between the Black and White housing areas. Before the railroad track, all White families' houses, after crossing the railroad track, all Black families' houses. And in some town, streets also served as the divider, one street all Black houses, the other street, all White houses. Why must they do this? I mean, they already can accept living in the same town together, sharing the same public facilities, but why not having them as neighbors?
Railroad tracks, one of the tools that assist in not-so-obvious-yet-obvious discrimination.

Sadly to mention this, both Blacks and Whites rarely goes to the same church. The Blacks have their own church, same goes to the Whites.

See? Discrimination still exist in today's world! It happens in a not-so-obvious-yet-obvious manner without many people knowing about it. If I were not in Georgia, I would have still continue believing that discrimination is an ancient issue, innocently

A hero which I admire more after working in the book field...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
a hero that fights for the African American rights, using non-domestic violence, inspired by Mahatma Ghandi. When he was a kid, he was being chased away for playing with a White kid by the White kid's parents. He went home and asked his mama, why did the parents do that to him? His mama told him, "King, never feel that you are less than somebody, always feel that you are somebody."

that is why in most of his speeches, he love to say,

"You are always somebody" -Dr ML. King, Jr.

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