Tim Sylvester
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Oh please. “White people” (a constructed category that only exists because nobody can tell just by looking at me exactly where my ancestors came from) have no monopoly on prejudice. As a strong demonstration of my point, that very statement you just made is deeply prejudiced.

Go talk to some Indians about people from the nations nearby their own, or those from a social caste below theirs. Go to South Africa and talk to the black population there about the murder rates of white farmers. Go ask Mexican nationals how they feel about Guatemalan immigrants. Ask the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans how they feel about each other.

Then read some history from pre-American times about how the Romans felt about the Gauls, the Greeks about the Romans, and just about everyone about the Turks.

Then get back to me about how racism is “first and foremost created and perpetuated” by white people.

Maybe then you’ll realize that the very statement you made is self-contradictory and evidence of its own falsity.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Please stop judging me because of the color of my skin.

    Tim Sylvester

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    President, Founder, & CEO of Integrated Roadways, Argumentative Contrarian, Futurist, Technologist, Concerned Citizen, Cynical Optimist

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