Can I Ask a Question?

Is it just feasible that a substantial portion of white Americans and/or moral majority view the minorities in this country as somewhat of inferior, lowbrow indentured servants waiting upon approval of civil liberties--which are due, but are reneged on--after years of asinine oppression?

I understand that is a mouthful of a question as well as quite a loaded one to boot. However, I cannot help but to look around and see pompous bigots swearing by their own dull-minded morality.

Firstly, there has, since the origins of human societies, been something, be it skin color, religious beliefs, national origins, and/or financial statuses, to divide the masses.

Sadly, racism was and is a dividing line in America. It is apart of American history and continues, with no signs of ceasing, to affect American current events. Furthermore, it is something that stands flatfooted on our shores, laying a damp overcast on the welcoming smile of our own Lady Liberty, and yet even sadder, laying a still harsher wake-up call to the dreams of the minorities in this county.

Nonetheless, within the last hundred years, America has progressed in the areas of racism and other discriminations; however, there are battles that are still raging.

Secondly, and crazy enough, religious morality harbours many, if not all, of these discriminations, basically, the “Us” and “Them” factor. That is, the whole mentality that “We’re better than you. We know something you don’t.”

From religious scriptures came the justification for the ideology of slaves, the owning of one individual as one might own a dog. Do not get me wrong, mankind has always brutality treated his fellow man. This goes back before articles of faith were even copied down in any form of a written language.

What I mean though is that religious scriptures justify the practice of slavery and the disdain against anyone that disagrees with the text. America’s history, moreover, shows the battle that modern civilizations have had to wage to cleanse itself of an obtuse, written-in-God’s-own-hand, moral bigotry.

Thirdly, once again, the war flags wave high: the moral majority using their religious scriptures to justify their discrimination of another minority, homosexuals. Of course, this is a battle that has been fought against this group in the past, but now the religious majority, feeling these people pose more of a threat than previously, are unleashing there influences into politics.

If these people (homosexuals) do not wish or ask to be a practitioner of a faith, whereby, their so-called “sexual deviance” would be an abomination to some higher deity, then the morally self-righteous should quit thrusting their own holier-than-thou beliefs on these people’s backs. Due to the same freedoms that give to you, the religious majority, the right to be the way you are and the way you choose, so the freedoms belong to the minorities as well.

Finally, the majority blindly forgets sometimes--that is, actually, a substantial part of the time--to act as if they were the minority; that is, to consider themselves outnumbered and still wake each day to face the onslaught of fear, misunderstanding, and persecution.


This week's column was spurred by two elements: the reading of another Parthenon columnist's comments about Brokeback Mountain and the reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, Young Goodman Brown. It is one thing to realize our differences and embrace as well as poke fun at them, but the blindsided disdain of another because of a difference that they, themselves, cannot control is beyond stupidity. In my humble opinion, it is the shittiest display of a fuck worthy education.