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From The Cheap Seats

 Reverse racism – No such thing!
Racism is racism regardless of colour
Bigotry is bigotry regardless of religion,
Gender, orientation, or human difference
Oppression is oppression regardless of
Reasoning, causation, or attempted justification.
Racism of any kind is wrong
Bigotry of any kind is wrong
Oppression of any kind is wrong
Racism can never be justified
Bigotry can never be acceptable
Oppression can never be righteous

Being a victim of racism does not allow you to be racist
Being a victim of bigotry does not give you the right to be a bigot
Being a victim of oppression does not justify oppressing others
If you hate another race for any reason, you are a racist
If you hate or exclude the different, then you are bigot
If you oppress anyone, despite their history then you are the oppressor

It’s not my fault that I am white
It wasn’t my choice to make
It wasn’t my fault I played the flute
And was taught to hate Catholics
It wasn’t my fault I treated gay men
With suspicion and fear
It was not my fault that my
Granny taught me what a nigger was
It would have been my fault
If, as an adult I did not rebel
Against my programming
It would have been easier
To sit in the cheap seats
And become my destiny
I deliberately chose not to

In life or in cyberspace
I will not accept
Racism, bigotry or oppression
Of any kind
Even if cloaked in rhetoric
Made to look P.C.
Written by David_Macleod (14397816)
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