Between the Lines

The sooner we cease to identify ourselves according to race - and teach our children to cease this practice as well - the better off we all will be. I mean that, sincerely.
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This is especially true in America. Where we are all, you know, Americans. Not European-American; not African-American; not Irish-American. Just, you know, American.
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The sooner we figure this mystery out the better off we will be.
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Racial identity is continually used against us in modern society. Whites are implicitly told they are superior, that they are the norm against which all other anomalies are weighed and compared, as this article states. We hear it just enough to subliminally reaffirm the idea in our own minds.
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Blacks continually hear about how they are victims of whites in society. Held down, repressed and oppressed. Denied opportunities. This despite special college funds, scholarships, their own dedicated history month, equal opportunity employment programs...the list goes on. Asians continually hear about their own intellectual superiority and their greater work ethic. They superior study habits.
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At every opportunity our political and educational masters use race to divide us, antagonize us and distract us from larger, more important issues. They keep us at each other's throats over something as superficial as skin color. They help us to internalize their message of racial difference, racial superiority or inferiority and they use that against us.
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To keep us - all of us, regardless of race or creed or skin color - repressed and oppressed. To keep us on the bottom of the pecking order, blind to the truth that we are all victims of a system that seeks to play us one against the other for the benefit of the political elite.
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The Left does it. The Right does it. No one wants it to change. And so long as people continue to believe the tripe, it will never change.
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We need to cease to identify ourselves by race. We need to become Americans - or French, or British or German, if that's where you live. Become a citizen of your nation; a neighbor, a friend, a comrade to those around you. Focus on the larger, more important issues. Ask yourself who taught you that you were a victim, who told you others will make sure you never succeed. Who convinced you that you had no chance, no opportunity, no way out.
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Was it the black or white or asian person next door? Or was it the black or white or asian educator or politician on the television? Because we know who profits from any message the latter puts forth.