Lysistrata
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- Oct 11, 2017
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Same with me. The only thing that I can say, like you, is that I try. Like I said, I can't walk in your shoes and you can't walk in mine. It's just impossible. What we can do is recognize our commonality and unite together as human beings. As the saying goes, all God's children. Who we are is determined by our individual genetic makeup and our geographic origins.Thank you. I try to be. I am not perfect but I try to do the best I can. I understand that women have been mistreated and sexism is no different than racism. Unfortunately for both of us, sellouts exist in each of our communities who help continue the maintenance of systemic sexism and racism.Exactly. I've never faced racism from a feminist. I have enjoyed many a good times with feminists as well. And not just sexually.Many white female feminist racist incidents go unreported. The woman with the dog in Central park New York, was reported , but many incidents go unreported. A white female recently blocked a black male resident from the entrance of a building demanding that he tell her what floor he lived on and demanded to know his name. When are these white female racist incidents going to be reported by the news media.!!?
Try explaining the link between being an advocate for equality between the sexes and racism shown toward an African-American person by a European-descended female person. A lot of these incidents involve some bleached-blond right-wing "obedient" bibble blatherer.
This is because you are an authentic person. I cannot ever walk in another person's shoes. What I am, how I was born, is all I know. I cannot reject your experiences because i have never been there. If I have ever offended anyone, it was not intentional. I am just a human on this earth. Racism, sexism are subtle and somehow are communicated to us growing up. Two things I remember from childhood: in a hospital covered with blood from surgery Qnd a man, a black man, asked me what I was doing out of bed because I had climbed out of bed (I was a prisoner of those horrible crib beds in children's wards and I went up and over to get to the sink and wash up), carried me back to my bed, and got me help. At about the same time, a classmate told me that my friend Michelle was going to hell because she was Jewish, I took my anxiety to my beloved Father, and He said the most wisdom "don't believe everything you hear," still truth after sixty years.
We all are caught between a rock and hard place. Fighting the prejudice that exists in our own country and realizing that we are blessed more than so many other people across the globe who must live in tents and walk miles to get clean water. I had a friend (may she rest in peace) who was half Vietnamese and half Lao, who came out of the refugee camps with her toddler daughters. I cannot imagine her experience. So many of us humans are on the move because they can't stay where they were born. My ancestors did it, too.