It's good to be white.
I don't know first-hand, because I'm not white, as you can probably tell from my photo to the left of my words. Think about it, being white is the closet thing to being God. I write that with sarcasm.
Seriously though, think about it. Chris Rock once said, "If you're white, the sky's the limit, and if you're black, the limit's the sky."
If you happen to be a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant), you have it made. It gets even better when you're male and a heterosexual. If you're female and/or homosexual, you still have it better than many minorities.
If you happen to be Muslim, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern or even appear to be in one of the aforementioned groups, you're just above a transgendered in today's power system.
I only say that because a transgendered male recently told me, "On the top of the power triangle is the white straight male, on the bottom is the transgendered male. I went from the top to the bottom in a matter of months."
Imagine it's Dec. 8, 1941. Pearl Harbor has been bombed the previous day by the Japanese empire and you just happen to be a Japanese-American. It doesn't matter that you're an eighth-generation Japanese-American or that you're more than 60 years old, you are still taken from your San Francisco home and placed into a concentration camp along with many of your neighbors who also happen to be Japanese-American.
Fast-forward with me to Sept. 12, 2001. The world has seen attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, a plane in Pennsylvania and other United States landmarks. You happen to be an Iraqi-American who has just immigrated to the United States exactly one year and two days ago. Everything was going good for you until that fateful day. You've been getting strange and angry looks from people you thought were your friends, neighbors or co-workers.
I tell those stories because more than 50 percent of Americans believe Middle Eastern people should have some special form of identification and be able to present it whenever they are asked to show it.
In 1986, then-President Ronald Reagan gave reparations to Japanese-Americans who were falsely detained during World War II.
The majority of people want to see who fits a certain profile.
"As long as it's not me, I don't care who it is or what happens to them" is usually the thought of many people.
Throughout time, the people who fit the profile has changed so many times. During World War II, it was the Japanese. During the 1960s, '70s, and today, it has been blacks. During the '70s and today also, it has been Latinos. Today it's Southeastern Asian-Americans and Arab-, Muslim- and Middle Eastern-Americans.
Imagine it's 1996. An Alfred P. Murrah Building has just been bombed. People, whether it be the media or other groups that promote hate, imply and assume the damage has been done by Middle-Eastern terrorists.
Oh, how many breathed a large and heavy sigh when the true person was caught. It happened to be done by "the all-American boy," "the boy next door" and other phrases usually associated with white America.
In 1996, and somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but I swear there was not any legislation asking citizens to be keep an eye on white males who have been previously in the military.
My point: It's good to be white.
Write to Moses at moses_41@yahoo.com
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