Race is a dirty word
You open your email and you see spam messages you can't get rid off from one side of the racial divide. It gives its side of the story, which you haven't considered as you were always reading the other side only. And you find yourself stunned that this side may be right in some points after all.
And on Facebook today you saw a note from an acquaintance about a racial attack that happened to him and his friend on Merdeka evening on his way to catch the celebrations. You curse the rempits who did this, yet you feel a twitching inside, as you felt like the entire race was blamed for the incident, from their choice of condemning words.
It's funny to see people fight for things, and then you just stand back and watch. Money and power can make people destroy each other. Ignorance of reality can make people hate each other. Before one side can effectively say you no longer deserve this - can they justify why? Before the other side spew out racist nonsense they will regret later can they justify their anger?
Greed makes everything and everyone ugly. Before everyone starts fighting, why can't they just put themselves in the others' shoes? Empathy never kills anyone.
Listen to the tale of the taxi driver who can't send his kid to university because he can't afford it and he isn't from a particular race. Listen to the tale of a friend who can't get the job he wants at a particular place because he does not speak that 3rd language. Experience it yourself when they tell you time and time again that your race is stereotyped as such and such, which from your personal experiences with some (like your parents or your friends), it is not true.
Greed makes people all hot and bothered - in an unsexy way. For those like yourself, who have not benefited from quotas and such (as yet) you could tell people that you don't give a flying fuck, the government and rich people only knows how to make more money for themselves and screw everyone else. For those who have lived the life of wealth, who have never suffered poverty, who have never struggled, they could easily say - take it, take it away, I don't need it and never will I have my silver spoon with me.
And for those on the other side who don't feel at home in the country of their birth, let not everything be racial, let not everything be divisive and argumentative. Speak the language of the land of your birth, blend in, and don't be a racist prick in your words. You may think people don't speak the 3rd language but guess what, they understand what you say.
We can all argue til we're blue, but at the end of the day, we're all right and we're all wrong. The only thing that is true is that we're all human.
And on Facebook today you saw a note from an acquaintance about a racial attack that happened to him and his friend on Merdeka evening on his way to catch the celebrations. You curse the rempits who did this, yet you feel a twitching inside, as you felt like the entire race was blamed for the incident, from their choice of condemning words.
It's funny to see people fight for things, and then you just stand back and watch. Money and power can make people destroy each other. Ignorance of reality can make people hate each other. Before one side can effectively say you no longer deserve this - can they justify why? Before the other side spew out racist nonsense they will regret later can they justify their anger?
Greed makes everything and everyone ugly. Before everyone starts fighting, why can't they just put themselves in the others' shoes? Empathy never kills anyone.
Listen to the tale of the taxi driver who can't send his kid to university because he can't afford it and he isn't from a particular race. Listen to the tale of a friend who can't get the job he wants at a particular place because he does not speak that 3rd language. Experience it yourself when they tell you time and time again that your race is stereotyped as such and such, which from your personal experiences with some (like your parents or your friends), it is not true.
Greed makes people all hot and bothered - in an unsexy way. For those like yourself, who have not benefited from quotas and such (as yet) you could tell people that you don't give a flying fuck, the government and rich people only knows how to make more money for themselves and screw everyone else. For those who have lived the life of wealth, who have never suffered poverty, who have never struggled, they could easily say - take it, take it away, I don't need it and never will I have my silver spoon with me.
And for those on the other side who don't feel at home in the country of their birth, let not everything be racial, let not everything be divisive and argumentative. Speak the language of the land of your birth, blend in, and don't be a racist prick in your words. You may think people don't speak the 3rd language but guess what, they understand what you say.
We can all argue til we're blue, but at the end of the day, we're all right and we're all wrong. The only thing that is true is that we're all human.
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