Growing up I was made fun of

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a reputation for racism and till about 11 or 12 and then the neighborhood started to shift. But when I was small I would get called Half Breed ( that is like the N word for mixed Natives if you don't know) but then Bush N was another one, Red Skin and Muck are the ones I can recall from the top of my head.

The shift

The Rodney King Riots was the shift. That started improving race relations in my town. I was in middle school when it happened. My school held an assembly to talk about race and racism. It brought our school and class together and for the longest time I truly believed that my generation would be the one to end racism once and for all.

Entering the new millennium

We started off decent enough then 9/11 happened. And ten years of improved race relations start to go down the tube. It started first with of you are from the Middle East. Then slowly I started seeing the white race get blamed for police brutality. We started being bombbarded with images and videos of white cops beating black people. But the reality of it is Black cops beat white people as they beat black people as do white cops they also beat white people. They beat anyone they think is resisting. Which is wrong. We should be focused on Police brutality and the color of the skin of the cop or the suspect. But all we see is the white cops hurting black people. This is the main reason for the decline in race relations.

I think so people share things not realizing what the message they are sending out really means.

Today I was on Facebook to check my messages and saw this image on my time line.

I love the images of the dolls we need more dolls with pigment to their skin.

The rest of the images I have issue with along with the question. I know lots of white people who are maids and I know lots of white people who do nails for a living. It is great money. These types of images bother me when combined with racist remarks of questions. "How does this make you feel?" Was what was asked with this post. Well to me it seems like you are trying to promote the hate of white people. You are telling those of mixed race to be ashamed of their white side. These images along with that question also shames work that people do for a living. There is nothing wrong with being a maid or a manucurist. Here was my response to the image.

So when you start to think about hitting share

Think before you do. Is the meme addressing the real issue or is it promoting racism. Racism is an issue faced by all colors of humans. That is the other pet peeve I been having the media saying only white people can be racist. Bullshit I call BS on that I see people of all colors being racist towards one group or another. But America is the melting pot. So many people here are of mixed race. Many who don't even know it. Many are hating a part of themselves and don't know it because they don't really know their family histories.

I am tired of seeing stuff that tells me to hate a part of myself

I am of mixed races. I am proud of that fact. Depending on how much I have been in the sun depends on what people assume I am. I am an American Mutt of many different races and am proud of that. I will not hate myself or even part of myself because of misguided propaganda. This is how I can be apart of the solution by talking about how this shit can make those of mixed races feel. I won't say everyone feels this way as I also know people who hate their race. I been trying to understand that one for years.

Think before you share

You could be promoting racism and we as a people are so much better than that. We are all humans and we need to start acting that way showing compassion and love not hate.