Journal Mer_panacea's Journal: Inauguration day 4
Tens of thousands of people are gathering to celebrate the inauguration of Mr President-elect Barack Obama.
Twenty years ago I spent a year in the United States. I was one of the most prosperous guy in my country. My pride was totally broken into pieces when I realised I was one of non-white.
Today I see tens of people in Washington DC. That's so panoramic!
I hope he can break the ice. He is one year senior to me.
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When I was much younger I was a civil rights worker here. Back then there was institutional racism, government and police in various areas were part of it.
That part was hard to crack. It's still not perfect, I don't think it ever will be, but it is *loads* better now than it used to be. I live in what is called the "deep south", the old confederate states, Georgia, and the racism is almost non existent around where I live now. I go up the street, the first store I get to is run by a family fr
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I worked with a guy from Pakistan in Atlanta and you would not believe the shit he has to go through.
His English is almost perfect. He's been a citizen for 25 years. He's got a beautiful family and lives in a nice neighborhood.
His kids get relentlessly bullied at school for simply being who they are. They can't be educated at a public school like everybody else because of that. It's disgusting, and just a sign that Atlanta is sick SICK SICK underneath the covers.
People in Georgia won't call you names to you
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Racism -it's a very poisonous idea.
Racists descriminate people not because there's a difference in skin colours among people. Absolutely not. They descriminate people because they just want to do so.
Even if there's no African, Asian on the globe, even if all people are white Caucasian, racists descriminate people because of some particular linege from white Caucasians. Look at the history in Europe.
There's nothing constructive out of the mind of descrimination. Difference is trivial. Race is illusion.
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Yes, changed a lot.
United States is no more a country for only European descendents. African offsprings, Hispanics, and some Asians. Their birth rate is more than that of European origins.
Mr Barack Obama is the first US president who's from other than white people. This is a reflection of current population portions.
The role internet performed isn't ignorable in overwhelming racist feeling. There's no colour in the net. We can exchange our thought from inside our heart not from outside appearances.
I myself