Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   The current narrative Date:   6/11/2020 11:05:23 AM

I disagree with the current narrative about systemic racism and racism in general.  I've taken a public stand and been called a racist more times in the last few days, but it makes me laugh.  You know, we all view things through our own prism.  So if I believe everything bad that happens to me, because I happen to be black, is racism.  Yeah, I'm speeding while I am driving in my car, but because I am black, I decide that I was pulled over because I am black and the cop is obviously a racist.  The other day I was in Publix buying a sandwich.  The girl waiting on me is black.  She stops working on my sandwich when a black woman walks up to the hot food and waits on her.  Is it because I am white?  Or is it because she has to work two different stations and she's trying to wait on everyone?  

I feel like everything is being distorted right now, because of the narrative.  If I say "all lives matter", it must be because I am a racist.  But in truth, I do think all lives matter and that includes black lives.  I do believe that there are instances of racism, but not nearly to the extent that the black community thinks, but they can't see it because all of their lives they have been told that everyone is racist and against them.  I feel like I have helped black and white people equally, when I could do something positive.  When I was a boss, I had a group of 3 black women that worked administative jobs.  Their previous director had been black and got them out of the secretarial role and created upward mobility for them.  But ours was an office of all engineers.  There was no job that I could think up, that would overcome the fact that there were only two kinds of jobs - administrative and engineering and none of these ladies had engineering degrees.  So then, it must be because I am a racist that I can't create new jobs for them and promote them, or go to another manager in the agency and demand that they be promoted there.  Everything can be seen through a prism of racism and when you don't get what you want and you are black, then it must be racism.  

And now we should tear down every memorial of everyone that played a part of U.S. history because 13% of the population doesn't like it being there.  Did they even notice the monuments before someone told them that they should?  There is a beautiful monument of Robert E. Lee, once of the great generals, in Richmond.  It is a work of art - him sitting on his horse that marks the beginning of the avenue of monuments - but now it MUST come down.  Last night, another statue of Lee was torn down by thugs in Richmond.  They want the Army bases that were named for the great generals renamed - despite the fact that the Army still studies the Civil War - not because of slavery, but because of the war strategies by the great generals.  

This is all making me sad, because it feels like there is an invisible hand that is ripping apart our country, because 13% of the population views everything through a prism of racism.