Integration. Is it possible? Malcolm X is completely opposed
to it. There was something he said specifically that rattled my perspective of
the world for a bit. ”I don’t care how nice one is to you; the thing you must
always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself,
as he sees his own kind.” Woah.
I don’t want to blindly generalize an entire group of
people. I can only make judgments from what I’ve experienced personally. Taking
a realistic view of the subject, I’d say that Malcolm X is right. But the only
reason I say this is because he leaves some room for exceptions. In the quote
he says “almost never”, and those two words are what redeem his statement for
me. The “almost never” leaves room for people who genuinely see everyone as
equals. I believe that those people exist because I’ve met them.
As for the others…sometimes they don’t even realize it.
Racism continues to thrive in our society. Racism is not solely alive in the
South or in other environments that seem far away from here. Racism occurs
every day, in Chicago, at Whitney Young, probably even amongst your friends.
I’m not trying to put race into everything, not at all. I simply think that
denying a problem’s existence is just as bad as supporting the problem. Denying
that racism is still going on won’t make it go away. So what will? I’ll be
honest and admit that I don’t have a solution. Change has to be individual
before anything concrete is accomplished. So think, reflect, and do better.
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