by Jack Epner

Created on: October 25, 2009   Last Updated: October 29, 2009

Are you f#$(*#g kidding me? Who the f*() asked this? OBVIOUSLY is the short answer. It was made quite public, not that long ago, that the bulk of North Carolina, as one example, voted in the previous presidential election 'solely' on the race on the candidates. In other words, they voted for McCain because he was white. Racial inequality? I think so. It is 'everywhere'!

You are 'blind' if you can't see that racism is still prevalent in today's society. I had a friend who's half-sister is half black. The entire group was told at a hotel once that they could not accommodate them on the basis of her skin color. Quite blatantly by the manager!

The guest services guy behind the front desk felt bad and offered to help sneak them in, but the fact that the manager of a hotel denied someone service based solely on the color of someone's skin in 2008, speaks for itself.

So, again, with the minimum article length. How else can I elaborate? I guess I'd like to use this time to expound on institutionalized racism. For example, kids use racist games for fun. Eenie meenie miney moe. Do you know what the original words are? Let's just say it's not a tiger they're trying to catch. Tigers don't holler. Replace the "t" with an "n" and add a "g" and you've got what they really want to catch. And kids are completely ambivalent to this. But they are taught it anyway.

There's a sweatshirt I once saw. It had a hand with puppet strings dropping from it, and the words attached at the bottom of the string say, "Tell the Children the Truth." A novel concept. If kids can't handle the truth, something was done wrong. Nothing in this world should be so horrible. But lying to them places them into a system where wrongs are right. And we'll never escape that cycle unless we better educate the youth.

There was finally some media coverage given to the controversey surrounding Columbus Day this year. Maybe the truth is finally making its way into the school system? Kids are typically taught Columbus was this great guy that found our country. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. Except it neglects to mention there were already people here. It wasn't discovered by him at all.

And what he did, actually, after stumbling onto this land, was to commit genocide against the natives. Chris Columbus was a murderer on par with Hitler. And that's simply the truth. Why not tell them that? Why confuse them? Why lie? What does that help?

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