There are times when I am prejudice, angry, and wish not to speak to someone who can't relate to being black. The stirring of these emotions usually takes place when I see yet another image of someone or something that is simply wrong, or I experience unfair treatment because of a non-black's superiority complex or preconceived notions of who he or she thinks I am.
From a young black male gunned down by a white police officer to yet another black male marrying for opportunity, what I thought was long put away, shows up in prejudice feelings. The stomach churns, the attitude on my face frowns, and the need to be anywhere but where I am when I see the foolishness before my eyes rises up.
I contemplated this issue of prejudice not that long ago and I was disappointed with myself. After years of feeling like I was colorless and content with just being a human being, a series of events reminded me once again of that black girl looking back at me in the mirror. The one who helped grandma clean rich white folks homes, who dated someone for years who wasn't black, who lived in a dorm with three white young women, and who also lived with a white family for almost a year. Where were these feelings coming from like: anger, sadness, and bitterness over issues in media that had nothing to do with me? I had learned from white people, been blessed by them, and partnered with them personally and professionally, but...
I reflected back on what I said many times before on this blog and elsewhere, the manipulation of news media brainwashing is indeed alive and well. Its focus is to get us to do things that will further hidden agendas by those who are beyond prejudice, but racist to the core! Remind me enough times that I am everything but a human being and I will begin to hate the ones who keep telling me the same thing over and over again. But what is intelligent about controlling one's mind to act prejudice-- to the point of creating chaos-- is that the ones who are doing the most oppressing doesn't look like "them--those white people"rather, they are black people doing it to black people. They are trained puppet masters spreading the poison they have been fed through all sorts of media outlets. They say and do things to arise the prejudice within. If I don't want to talk about so-called black issues, they are going to say things in such a way to make me want to talk about black issues. If I don't want to be a part of the black group, they are going to remind me why I can't get into the white group. If I want to make some changes and step out of my comfort zone, they are going to tell me why I won't be a success because of this white person, white group, white location, white whatever!
So I go back to the drawing board of ridding myself of the ugliness that comes with being prejudice. Usually this consists of shutting off all negative media related to black issues. Avoiding conversation with angry black folks. Keeping away from ignorant people of all ethnicities that feel they are authorized to comment on things just because they know someone who is black.
Prejudice rears its ugly head when someone that doesn't look like you comes around. The expectation that a non-black is going to say or do something that is going to anger you is ever present when you are prejudice. Then of course, the distrust of "those people"--never knowing what they are up to even when they could care less about you--but prejudice creates a degree of paranoia. Prejudice is also prevalent when you don't agree with what you see in front of you or when you suspect that someone is favoring a person over you. The negativity is binding and keeps you from experiencing true freedom mentally, physically and spiritually. While others enjoy their lives, a prejudice person is limiting his or herself because of what he or she has been through; therefore, the past dictates the present and the future.
So my hope is that we all look beyond the mind control of media, keep our minds intact no matter what tragedy is ahead for yet another black person, and most of all, remind ourselves that not everyone is evil.
Nicholl McGuire
From a young black male gunned down by a white police officer to yet another black male marrying for opportunity, what I thought was long put away, shows up in prejudice feelings. The stomach churns, the attitude on my face frowns, and the need to be anywhere but where I am when I see the foolishness before my eyes rises up.
I contemplated this issue of prejudice not that long ago and I was disappointed with myself. After years of feeling like I was colorless and content with just being a human being, a series of events reminded me once again of that black girl looking back at me in the mirror. The one who helped grandma clean rich white folks homes, who dated someone for years who wasn't black, who lived in a dorm with three white young women, and who also lived with a white family for almost a year. Where were these feelings coming from like: anger, sadness, and bitterness over issues in media that had nothing to do with me? I had learned from white people, been blessed by them, and partnered with them personally and professionally, but...
I reflected back on what I said many times before on this blog and elsewhere, the manipulation of news media brainwashing is indeed alive and well. Its focus is to get us to do things that will further hidden agendas by those who are beyond prejudice, but racist to the core! Remind me enough times that I am everything but a human being and I will begin to hate the ones who keep telling me the same thing over and over again. But what is intelligent about controlling one's mind to act prejudice-- to the point of creating chaos-- is that the ones who are doing the most oppressing doesn't look like "them--those white people"rather, they are black people doing it to black people. They are trained puppet masters spreading the poison they have been fed through all sorts of media outlets. They say and do things to arise the prejudice within. If I don't want to talk about so-called black issues, they are going to say things in such a way to make me want to talk about black issues. If I don't want to be a part of the black group, they are going to remind me why I can't get into the white group. If I want to make some changes and step out of my comfort zone, they are going to tell me why I won't be a success because of this white person, white group, white location, white whatever!
So I go back to the drawing board of ridding myself of the ugliness that comes with being prejudice. Usually this consists of shutting off all negative media related to black issues. Avoiding conversation with angry black folks. Keeping away from ignorant people of all ethnicities that feel they are authorized to comment on things just because they know someone who is black.
Prejudice rears its ugly head when someone that doesn't look like you comes around. The expectation that a non-black is going to say or do something that is going to anger you is ever present when you are prejudice. Then of course, the distrust of "those people"--never knowing what they are up to even when they could care less about you--but prejudice creates a degree of paranoia. Prejudice is also prevalent when you don't agree with what you see in front of you or when you suspect that someone is favoring a person over you. The negativity is binding and keeps you from experiencing true freedom mentally, physically and spiritually. While others enjoy their lives, a prejudice person is limiting his or herself because of what he or she has been through; therefore, the past dictates the present and the future.
So my hope is that we all look beyond the mind control of media, keep our minds intact no matter what tragedy is ahead for yet another black person, and most of all, remind ourselves that not everyone is evil.
Nicholl McGuire
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