{"id":46931,"date":"2020-05-14T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46931"},"modified":"2020-08-13T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:11:42","slug":"new-father-brogging-008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46931","title":{"rendered":"New Father Brogging, #008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019ve been called a racist more times than I should probably be comfortable with, in my life.\u00a0 It\u2019s not something that I\u2019m proud of, I\u2019m just merely stating the fact that plenty of people I\u2019ve interacted with in my life tend to think that I harbor some racist beliefs.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to argue about the semantics behind such, but when the day is over, sure, I might find some humor in dark jokes, or race-related topics, but I genuinely don\u2019t dislike my fellow man and woman, for no sole reason than the color of their skin.\u00a0 I typically grow to dislike my fellow man and woman, because I think they\u2019re toxic personalities, and not the color of their skin or what box they check off under nationality on any sort of legal documentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The thing is, I think I get tagged as a racist as often as I do, because I\u2019m pretty frank and candid when it comes to talking about race, stereotypes, and calling bullshit or double-standards on behavior when it comes to race.\u00a0 Like take for example, America has become this country that\u2019s so riddled with white guilt and apologetic to the black community, that the African-American community has somewhat of an immunity when it comes to criticism, because a large portion of America is afraid to step on the toes of black people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Unfortunately, it\u2019s a tale of two extremes, and for every two people who are overly cautious around black people, there\u2019s a closeted or not-so closeted bigot, that absolutely abhors black people, and actually acts on it, discriminating like slavery never was abolished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">However, in spite of the PC bulletproof vest that the black community tends to have against white people, other minority groups don\u2019t have the same luxury.\u00a0 Asians and Hispanics especially, are treated like this third-tier group, and not only do they endure all sorts of criticism from white people, black people love to clown on Asians and Hispanics as if their entire demographic never endured discrimination in their entire lineages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Just look at the 2016 presidential race as no further proof of how flagrant and publicly people, including the shithead that was voted into the highest office of the fucking world, blamed everything negative on the planet on Hispanics.\u00a0 And with the world in pandemic now, the same people have turned their crosshairs onto ALL Asians, despite the fact that it was at a Chinese wet market where some dumbass ate a bat and put the entire planet in this predicament in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And this is the world we live in.\u00a0 Where it\u2019s the hopes and dreams of many, to see racism completely eradicated from the world, but that\u2019s a pipedream that will never, ever, ever happen, because history exists, and as long as people are reminded that racism happened at some point, racism will continue to happen.\u00a0 It\u2019s a catch-22 where racism should probably be best to be forgotten, but then there\u2019s the old adage that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I think the only way racism ends is if the idea behind the M. Night Shyamalan film <em>The Village<\/em> actually comes to fruition, where a group of people colluding to exist as pilgrims who never introduce the idea of discrimination, in isolation from the modern world, all while the rest of the planet dies off and then the people in the village can repopulate the planet without the concept racism ever existing in the brains of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In other words, racism is never going to not exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I think about this a lot lately and it\u2019s under the topic of new dad brogging, because of the obvious notion that my daughter is a biracial kid.\u00a0 Despite the fact that she\u2019s half white, she\u2019ll never be fully identifiable as white, and historically Koreans have been some of the worst cultures in the world when it comes to accepting biracial children, much less anyone, unless they\u2019re celebrities of some sort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As great as it would be for her to go her life without dealing with racism, it\u2019s not going to happen.\u00a0 The world is a fucked up hateful place, even to this very day, and with each passing day where the leaders of our country are a stacked deck of other racists, it\u2019s only going to become worse and worse until we may as well be on the highway back to segregation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s bad enough that the so-called president continually insists on regionalizing coronavirus, and publicly labeling it as \u201cthe Chinese Virus,\u201d so that all his brainless followers can knee-jerk aspire to blame not just the Chinese, but all Asian cultures because <em>arr rook same<\/em>, and Americans are woefully ignorant when it comes to delineating between Asians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But just in the news in the last month alone, we\u2019ve got the following unfortunate stories:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/retail\/2020\/04\/21\/lululemon-apologizes-after-employee-promoted-bat-fried-rice-shirt\/3000621001\/\">An \u201cart director\u201d for Lululemon \u201cdesigned\u201d a $60 t-shirt<\/a> of a Chinese takeout box with bat wings, complete with Wonton font and titled it \u201cbat fried rice;\u201d they were since fired, but not before the thing went viral, and what people don\u2019t seem to realize that in spite of the justice of firing of a racist idiot, the idea already made it onto the internet, and if people weren\u2019t thinking of the tasteless joke before, they will now as a result<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Right here in Atlanta where I live with said daughter, someone(s) is\/are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local\/wuhan-plague-plaques-found-atlanta-businesses-streets\/b9takSWmtKqfqai7wAk8iL\/\">going around putting these bronze plaques with Winnie the Pooh holding a bat with chopsticks<\/a>, with \u201cWuhan Plague\u201d in Hobo font on it, around the city. APD and the local Homeland Security unit for some reason doesn\u2019t seem to think this has any bias behind it, further reinforcing the notion that Asians get no sort of respect or even consideration when it comes to racial discrimination<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Out in Illinois, at a protest for white people to demand that hair dressers and Mexican restaurants to get back to work, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/auschwitz-museum-denounces-woman-holding-nazi-sign-illinois-protest-n1198961\">woman was spotted holding a sign with a Nazi slogan of Arbeit macht frei<\/a>, or <em>Work Will Set You Free <\/em>and somehow thought that that was a good idea. I\u2019m still hoping for a follow-up story of her getting identified and doxxed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Out in the San Diego area, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/04\/man-wears-kkk-hood-while-grocery-shopping-in-california\/?fbclid=IwAR0fXwDgm0vuOBF_ocT3c5e2G2LKVD15AHlrgFjrAlpGwJ4ZYgVrI3wGv74\">man went out to the grocery store in a literal, KKK klansman\u2019s hood<\/a>, in public broad daylight<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And of course, there is the story of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was shot and killed while out on a jog outside of Savannah, Georgia, by two white men while, because they thought he was a guy who was robbing the area, back in February, but absolutely nothing happened with local law enforcement until the story broke nationally and federal intervention managed to get the case moving<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If stories like this don\u2019t convince you that racism is not only not going away, but very alive and rampant, then I don\u2019t know what to tell you.\u00a0 This is the world in which I have to raise my daughter, and all I can really hope that she isn\u2019t exposed to too much of this bullshit as she grows, because people around us aren\u2019t ever going to change.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been called a racist more times than I should probably be comfortable with, in my life.\u00a0 It\u2019s not something that I\u2019m proud of, I\u2019m just merely stating the fact that plenty of people I\u2019ve interacted with in my life tend to think that I harbor some racist beliefs.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to argue about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Father Brogging, #008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,112,193,45,90,192,165,89],"class_list":["post-46931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-crime","tag-dad","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-kids","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46932,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46931\/revisions\/46932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}