Monday, August 1, 2011

AMERICA AND RACISM

I have lived in North America for a period of one year and while in the U.S. I lived among Christians and went to church together with them for a period close to one year, I NEVER experienced any racial prejudice amongst this congregation, I found love and felt it in my skin.And remember a sample of population always represents the whole population.

While racial prejudism is of dismal amount in colleges and high schools in specific areas amongs the students in the US, I want to reiterate that people who tend to be racists-this is a very strong term though,are racists because of their ignorance about the importance of people and because they haven't fully comprehended the origin of both the so called Blacks, "Whites", reds and browns-light skinned.

At one time I was in a group of youth who were high-schoolers,they tended to create a lot of racial prejudice jokes and I continue to call this IGNORANCE of highest order which exposure to different cultures would help deal with to a great extent.

While people at my home ground continues to say that President Obama who has Kenyan decency in my neighbourhood is being criticized on racial grounds, I would like to say that America voters knew before hand that Barack Obama was half-black and half white and because of his good policies, he was elected to the highest position in the world. While American politicians continues to fight him politically, I would like to correct my brothers and sisters from my culture that he is being constructively criticized depending on his policies because of politics and politics is politics because it involves a lot of games and schemes being drafted to satisfy self interests! Let's leave politics to politician and Obama's presidency is NOT being criticized based on racial prejudices.

I stand to be criticized and corected on this note,this is my personal opinion.