In recent weeks, I have read 100s of hateful racist rants on forums, article comment threads, blog post comments sections and so on by American white people complaining about their rights being trampled and how Obama and Al Sharpton are in bed together, and how Obama should support the Ferguson P.D. and how MIchael Brown deserved what he got and so on and so forth. Very often, it comes down to American white people requesting that they get special treatment, just as African Americans supposedly receive. Or, that every murder of a white person by a black person is not reported by the media as part of a vast liberal conspiracy against American white people.
I don't know if these people realize how profoundly ignorant they sound and how laughable it would be to poll the international community, a representative sample in every country, of how they feel about American white people feeling that their rights are trampled on and how they want a greater say in civics, politics and everything else.
In fact, if I had the perseverance, I would make a documentary where I would go around the world, physically or virtually, and ask people from every nation the following question:
"American white people feel they should have greater rights and more influence in the world and in their country. How do you feel about this?"
Or something like that. And, I would allow them 30 minutes to patiently and contemplatively express their opinions about how victimized and oppressed American white people are in the world (note- sarcasm).
I would make sure to ask Indians who lived through British colonialism and black people who lived through Apartheid. Hmmm...considering that Europe or America has pretty much colonized or violently occupied and controlled nearly the entire globe until very recently, it won't be hard to find people who lived through one form or another of oppression and brutality brought on by people of European ancestry. Would be very interesting. Then, I would play it back to everyone who has commented on how Michael Brown is a thug and Darren Wilson, a hero, and how we should all rally behind Wilson and the Ferguson P.D. and not condemn both. Maybe the ludicrous contrast would get the point across.
Edited by Brafarality, 01 December 2014 - 07:58 AM.
