Non-understanding as central issue, excellent learning opportunity, exercise in external considering
Thank you for creating this topic!
This very real problem is simply not being thought over individually, in general, during daily life, to come to an understanding, then discuss live as a group, resulting in a group understanding.
Observing people's hatred in general toward minorities when there is talk about them - I think people don't really bother to think about this topic, because people can get by at work and in their career. So [internal]racism comes up only occasionally when there is direct confrontation. Exception being a target of [internal]racism at work / living / socializing place, where the majority of workers / inhabitants / people socializing are of a different race. Example: mixed race family experiencing this problem.
Internal Racism I think is a psychological issue, a wrong idea for a coping mechanism for a person, whose mind wishes to heal and deal with hatred / discrimination constantly coming from members of the other race. The person tries to send signals on all social-programming channels to members of the other race that:
- I am like you, please accept me and cease with your open or covert racism once and for all.
I think internal racism is driven by racist reaction signals transmitted by most in today's societies should be dealt with and neutralized - made nil - in FOTCM groups. This will become an issue as more groups are created, more people of different races come together and will have to learn to live as kin, in sisterhood and brotherhood. We know all hatred is Matrix-induced as a feeding mechanism, racism being only one tool. In a FOTCM community I think I would try to learn show acceptance toward races - because this is a universal problem affecting all -, come to an understanding of the problem of the racism / internal racism and learning to neutralize it in my mind and clearly communicating:
- I accept you, there is only one "race": the human race. Let's make an end for this once and for all.
One may think:
- Why is this brought up as an issue? I just accept everybody, regardless of race and that's it!
Well, clearly if ones mind is not really working a racist "full time", still there are harmful viral-thoughts injected by society, the media, movies, minorities living in the area, The Matrix, so there is work to be done, whether one wants to accept or not, i think.
I had a colleague with persian/arab complexion who told me police were stopping him frequently, asking for his papers and asking questions and this bothered him. This was the first time I tried to imagine how infuriated would I feel if police were stopping me, because of my skin color.
A grandmother of the minority race is stopping by sometimes at our window, about a four year old girl holding her hand. The girl is asking questions, her voice is of an angel, really musical, beautiful voice. I always happily listen to resonant, beautiful singing tones and the girl has a true. Grandmother answers to her in a rough, aggressive tone, her vocal cords ruined by alcohol, sounding like a faulty loudspeaker on overdrive making her voice almost inhuman, grating, piercing, squall.
I always shudder and think that angelic girl will learn to speak this way, because most adults in the minority where I live speak in that inhuman tone.
I have no problem admitting some of the girls from the minority group being more beautiful - look at in awe - than girls from my majority (race) group. Seems every human model type - mentioned by the C's - has a noble genetic line looking like idealized sculptures.