The Illusion of Equality

Black History Month discriminates colored people.

It is also hypocritical, ridiculous, and creates an illusion of equality.  The finger of Modern Culture is now pointing at me, stabbing the air, crying, "He is a racist!"  No I am not.  I can prove what I am saying.

Black History Month, the month of February, is the shortest month of the year, having a mere 28 days (an occasionally 29 every four years).  It relegates the history of an entire people group to one month out of the year.  It discriminates the black people by separating them from the rest of the human population and focusing your attention on them.  That separation is called segregation, which is what the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s so vehemently opposed.  Any sort of separation for special treatment, be that treatment good or bad, is segregation.  Black History Month segregates and discriminates in the name of equality and tolerance.

The government really should rename it "American Hypocrisy Month".  If Blacks are equal to every other "racial group" (which is a discriminating notion in itself), then they do not deserve their own History Month, unless you also have a White History Month (even though not all Caucasians are white, and vice versa), Yellow History Month (which fails to discriminate between any of the Oriental ethnic groups because it has to fit the color-history-month theme, but is only understood to be the Chinese), Indian History Month (which really should be a part of Black History Month, but isn't because Indians aren't from Africa), Brown History Month (which could describe people from almost every ethnicity) and even Jewish History Month (even though the Jews aren't a race, but it is a religious group, and groups need their own months of history for some political-correctness reason).

I have pale skin.  I am not proud to be white, nor am I ashamed to be white.  Any sense of pride or shame based on skin color is the very zenith of human stupidity and ignorance.  In fact, I disagree with even calling myself "white".  My skin is not white.  It is clearly skin-colored.  I do not look like a vampire.  Why am I "white"?  By definition, I am not even Caucasian!  I have never even set foot in Caucasus!

The very idea of "races" is completely illogical, backwards, and dangerous.  America is not at all interested in putting a stop to racial prejudice.  If America truly was, then every American would condemn the very idea that there are different races.  If America genuinely wanted to end racism once and for all, then every American would come to terms with the staggeringly simple fact that there is only one race: the human race.

I passionately forbid the government to define things, because they are absolutely stupid when it comes to definitions.  I wholeheartedly oppose the idea of different races because all races do is create labels, and anything that can be labeled can be hated.  There is no equality between colored people.  Those with lighter skin are still favored by popular culture even today.  Those with darker skin are paid less and punished more harshly than those with lighter skin.  This is a national statistic.

The entire country is rank with hypocrisy and double-standards.  It is tolerant and acceptable to have a Black History Month, but it is evil, repugnant, and racist to even think of having a White History Month.  How is that equality?  That is a double-standard which lobbies for white guilt.  Apologize for being white. Be sorry that you were born with light skin, you oppressive scum.

I am exaggerating, of course, but these hypothetical sentiments may not be so hypothetical.

Equality is an illusion.

No, not everyone is equal.  No, not everyone has to be equal.  No, equality does not have to be a social priority.  However, one's skin color should never have any affect on one's inequality either.

Michael Phelps and I are not equals.  I am a high school student, and he is an Olympic Gold Medalist.  His prestige and athleticism are both vastly superior to mine.  In this sense, we are vastly unequal.  I would address him as a superior out of respect, rather than as an equal.  Equality means nothing.  It is a subjective and personal judgment.

The cure for racism and inequality is this: stop comparing people to other people.  You are so incredibly unique, you could not possibly hope to effectively compare yourself to another human being.  Even identical twins are extremely different from each other—and I know this because I am dear friends with a pair of twins!  The issue is not equality.  The issue is respect.  People disrespect people.  It happens.  It hurts when it happens and it hurts to see it happen.  Equality has nothing to do with it.

Want to stop racial prejudice?  You can start by regarding others as superior—unequal—to yourself.