Pretty Dall's Blog

A little over a year ago back when i was merely a young cilvilian man trying to find my place in a society that was unforgiving and relentless in its attack on my good nature due to a ignorant cancer like disease called racism I began to speak my mind in the form of blog postings. I heard some of the most hateful and evil sinful responses one could imagine in this so called new day of quote on qoute equalism and the false statements of racism doesn't exsist any more. Well in my journey to at least in my mind prove myself to be a good man to these certain individuals I joined the U.S millitary, the Army to be exact. I joined something that fewer then 1% of the U.S population joins. I figured that by fighting for my so called country would make a dramatic change on my impression the next time I'm pulled over or having to deal with situations where I am stereo typed into a certain group. Well that was a fantasy because you see right now as I type I'm deployed in Afganastan fighting for my life and the so called battle buddy that's right beside me. Everyday I have to ask myself why am I still viewed as something less than a man. I'm on top of a mountain for sixty five days with no shower, clean clothes, phone or internet and the only black man out of about 40 other men when I here that Obama is to be elected our new president. Now shunned from society on top of this mountain with about forty other guys and everybody is carrying fully atomatic rifles cocked and loaded and ready to shoot....Why am I being subjected to threats of being hung by a noose and then being faced with everyone hearing it and laughing like it's a joke. I have been insulted on so many accounts and racially slured so many times that it is sicking. So you see this country is supposed to be moving forward but yet it hasn't moved any where since the 1700's. It's a sad day when a black man can't even fight for this country shoulder to shoulder with the white man and still be nothing more than a n*gg*r. This topic that I am speaking about is very complexed, to complexed to be sumed up in one writing. True enough I am making statements but also I am asking a question and the question is why America? Why do you continue to think so ignorantly?

The city of Cleveland has really fell victim to racial motivations such as stereotypes and own self personal outwardly  hatred. The self esteem levels have really sunk amoungst not only the young minority youth but also white. The fear of one another has lead to almost complete separation and segragation amoungst all races. People fear what they do not know of but believe only what they hear and can visually see. Theres an old saying of "do not judge a book by it's cover" and that can be oh so true. The media portrays nothing but racial tention. The focus is almost always on negativity instead of positivity. True enough it is beneficial to report the bad but in the same fairness the good should also be reported. I personally would like to see more of my own race and age group reported positivly because only then will people's self esteem levels rise and there for proving stereotypes to be wrong. Bad people will always spoil it for the good people but I would like to see an overwhelming amount of good so that hopefully the good will spoil it for the bad. You see choices that people are making in the city of Cleveland right now are truly life and death. If you do not work then you will end up committing a crime there for you will end up jailed or even worst dead. If you do not strive to be better, then your situation will always stay the same. People say that they know these things but yet and still they do not seem to apply them. I beg the community of Cleveland to not slander and to not put people down because when you do that you may be stealing  the chance of a lifetime from a person which in the end/long run will only hurt this city more.

RACISM... is it or is it not? You know what I am going to try to calm down on this one. White people say that black people blame EVERYTHING on racism. Well you know what I don't but I do blame a few on it. Example if I am driving and I am not braking any laws then why do I get pulled over and told that the reason is "I just wanted to check you out" check me out for what? Another one is lets see its 2 Am in the morning I just get done parking my car in a parking spot at an apartment and I get out, as I am getting out a police rides up on me and starts lookin all at me and then stops me and handcuffs me and makes me sit on the curb of the street while they do a backround check on me all the whole time asking me all type of stupid questions. I am 25 yrs. old and that means that I have the right to come home at whatever time I feel like it. That very night I had done nothing wrong and the police had to let me go but don't u see that thats racism. Leave me alone I am tired of being treated like a criminal.

Why do i speak so much on race? Well lets see...It's always in my face. How come when I'm working a job certain people don't even want to speak to me and not because i've done anything wrong or because I'm a mean person no it's because I'm young and black and I choose not to wear a suit and tie and carry a brief case. I mean do I have to put on some glasses and wear some tight pants that flood when I sit down and do i have to listen to country music and pop rock to be accepted? Of course I would never do these things but isn't being a nice happy go lucky guy enough? I am very well mannerd and no I do not walk around laughing out loud and acting all silly. I am very friendly and if you take the time to find out then that is excactly what you will see. Like I said I have never caused harm to anybody but yet when I come around I can certainly feel the vibe. No one is stupid here so eihter I just look stupid or I just don't know. Why I'm I so threating when I haven't even done anything wrong? Why doesn't any one care? Why when I call for a job that I am more then quailified for I only get told about the B.S ones? Why do they pay me less for a job position and pay the white guy or girl more? Nothing against  foreigners but even they can come  over here and exspect to get paid more then me. It's like "hey your a nobody so why should we pay you what your worth". Now I know that i'm somebody theres not a problem there but what I also know is that no matter what I do I am being viewed as a nobody. Whats wrong with a person who doesn't have everything but they certainly work hard for what they do have. Racism comes in all shapes, sizes,and colors and to be able to capture and write about all of them in one blog would be impossible. All I want people to do is to just think sometimes befor they judge someone. Stereotyping is the worst thing ever that you can do to someone because then your not giving that person an even or a fair shot. Do not read this blog and think that i am singling any one specific race or group out; like I said racism comes in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. Even my own race can be racist against me at times but I choose to speak only on the young and black because thats what I am and this is what I go through on a daily bases.

Wouldn't you agree that if someone wasn't with you that they were against you in which that indeed would be an enemy? Well I would and I do consider any racist or white person who thinks that he or she can justify there racism is a enemy of mines. All across the board racist white people of this city and country are time and time again grouping all young black males into one. To not realize and accept that every indivisual person no matter what the race or culture is different is to be an ignorant person. To believe in stereotypes and to actually act out on them is utterly stupid. After a while a person will began to turn angry when every where he goes he is hated befor he even gets there. All young black males are not thugs,gangsters,drug dealers,pimps,low lifes,lazy, and etc. Hmm you know most of us actually want to be something in life and in this society. It's not fair when white America turns on the T.V and see's some rap videos and what some of them are portraying and try to say "oh thats what all of these guys are up to". Do I listen to rap? of course I do, do i sag my pants? yes I do but I'm I a criminal, I'm I a drug dealer, I'm I looking for trouble or to harm someone ? no I am not. I'm I educated, do I love my family, do i want to earn a honest living? yes I do and yes I will. You listen up enemy, stop breaking this country and city in half with your racial spew of hate. Racial profiling and stereotyping are two forms of prejudices. We are all human beings and we all have feelings and pride. Sure there are a few bad apples in every bunch but I don't want to be viewed as one due to the color of my skin; also to add to that I don't want to have to feel like I have to constanly go around proving myself neither.