Self Hatred

I've watched these recent demonstrations by thousands of people who either want or don't want all Civil War statues removed because they represent the days of slavery.  My feeling is that they are historical relics so please don't destroy them!

There was a HUGE demonstration in Boston the other day and I was very impressed with the vast number of people who felt the need to express their opinion on the subject but how very, very few committed any violent acts.  That's a big change from previous demonstrations where so many people behaved like undisciplined a..holes.

But something in this demonstration struck me as peculiar.  Now, there might have been signs like this in other demonstrations but I've never seen this before.  One sign in particular struck me as funny, sad, and ridiculous.  It read "WHITE PEOPLE SUCK".  It was being carried by a white person.  There were a few more denigrating the white population and some also were being carried by white people.  Now...if these people are demonstrating to stop racism, why are they insulting the white race??  And, please forgive me for snickering, why are some white people putting their own selves down like this??

We whites of today never owned slaves.  Yes, there is still racism today but it goes both ways, too.  What these demonstrators needed to do was to end racism by ending it for all people and not just one group.  If they think they can make all races equal by putting down one then they are missing the point.  Somehow we have got to understand that skin color has no meaning in whether or not a person is good, bad, or indifferent.

Anyway, that anti-white sign carried by a white person will remain in my memory as one more reason we human beings are terribly flawed.