How can it be that in this day and age we still have racial hatred in our community?
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As human beings, we can only hang our heads in shame that as a race, as a species, we have behaved so despicably towards each other based on the colour of our body’s largest organ.
That’s right.
Skin is just an organ of our body.
We all have it. We all need it.
The colour is irrelevant.
And yet for centuries it dictated superiority.
It dictated society’s pecking order.
How shameful for us as inhabitants of this world.
Last weekend a red-headed young woman threw a banana at an indigenous football star.
An action that once again thrust into the spot light that racism is still prevalent amongst us.
Despite all the education and the fact that in today’s society people with racist attitudes are looked down upon, this was still able to happen in full view of the public.
Those witnessing this distasteful display were horrified as the racially motivated hateful taunts poured out of this young woman’s mouth.
But even more disturbing, was the interview with her father a few days later, defending his daughter’s behaviour.
He said she was a beautiful girl who made a mistake.
There is no beauty, either physical or spiritual, in someone who feels they have the right to vilify another.
In fact to me, she looked ugly.
This barbaric attitude that the colour of our skin makes us different should never be tolerated.
And such attitudes will only be passed onto the next generation if parents and grandparents allow it to be.
That woman can only continue to feel she has a right to speak this way if she is supported to do so.
If she is held to account by society, the football community, family and friends then perhaps she will feel the discomfort she deserves.
Our community no longer looks like it did when I was growing up.
My children see all cultures; in their school, at the local shops, living along side of us. And for them it’s not a big deal.
It’s completely normal.
Without skin we would die.
And yet it plays no part is determining who we are; what abilities or disabilities we have.
Interesting that something so important to our survival is actually of little consequence.
Racism stops with me.
How about you?