I am Jack's sense of racial injustice.

[Sacks]

I saw this a long time ago and really it just made me feel empty inside and very sad for this man. The thing is though, as a tall blue eyed white kid in public school, I've been on the ass end of racism for most of my life. Eventually I got worried that maybe deep inside I'd become racist myself because of all the abuse. I'd get this cold wet feeling in the pit of my stomach when a large 'thug' looking black man would be walking towards me or standing in the vicinity. I came to realize that it wasn't hate I was feeling, it was just my body reverting back to a "Ok hang tight we're about to get fucked with" mindset. I'm over it now, it still happens sometimes, but what can you do. I think that's exactly whats going on with this man, and pretty much every racist person on the planet. They're either afraid, or they were taught to hate by someone that was afraid themselves. In fact, I used to work with a girl who was dating this hammerskin douchebag with all of these swastika tattoos. I asked her why she was doing it, and it turns out she used to be married to this middle eastern man, but he'd yell at her and smacked her around all the time and she had to run off. He took her kid and moved somewhere far far away. She said when she saw Hammerskin and heard him talk about these ideas she'd never heard before, this hate towards people of color, it got to her and she felt safe around him. I dug a little deeper, and it turns around Hammerskin got into this bullshit while he was in prison, and I'd bet a million bucks he didn't get into it because he felt it was righteous or a good idea, he did it because he was afraid of getting shanked or becoming a large black man's boyfriend.


Increase the peace.