A ‘White’ Concept

I read an article in my college’s daily school news paper and it infuriated me! It was all about a party that happened over the weekend and how it was hosted by a gay ‘white’ person. The author ranted about how ‘white’ people dominate everything and that ‘white’ people are big, fat racists who rule the world.

And while it may be true that ‘white’ people are the dominate ‘race’….

STOP FUCKING CALLING ME WHITE!!!!!!

Damnit if I have to be Politically Correct all the time and call ‘black’ people African American, or ‘Indians’ Native American, then I too want to be called the PC version of Caucasian, which is European American.

It is so ironic and hypocritical of all these different people who are claiming that gays, lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals, and all people of color need to ban together and stand up against prejudice and racism are the ones that are actually being prejudice and racist. Look at the negative connotation that the word ‘white’ presents. When I hear someone say any comment about ‘white’ people all I think is: old time bigotry.

And screw you for lumping me in with people from 56 years ago, who are you to judge me and label me with such a negative word. You don’t know me, you don’t know what kind of judgment I’ve faced. The fact that you are African American or Irish American, or Native American makes no difference in your hardships. I came from a lower middle class family and am putting myself through college. And I happen to be almost half Native American, which means that technically I should be getting funded by the US government but I can’t because my ancestors wouldn’t talk about their Native heritage and thus I can’t affiliate myself with a tribe. And the fact that I even go to the length to say that I am ‘half’ something absolutely disgusts me. I despise what my home country has come to; an overly safe, don’t want to step on anyone’s toes, make everyone happy, PC bullshit spewing monster.

When asked ‘what’ I am is say ‘American’ because there is no fucking way that your mother’s vagina could span the length of ocean from here to Africa; which is what it would have to do for you to actually be African American. And no, I am NOT attacking African Americans, this concept could be used for anyone who labels themselves with more than one nationality. And the term nationality is even screwed up now, now your nationality is the color of your skin. How dumb is that? When did ‘Alaskan Native’ become a country? Yes, America is the country where you can bring your homeland and still be proud of where you came from and you can become a person of America, but seriously if you immigrate here don’t try to change this country, become part of it. I love learning about other countries and their beliefs and customs but don’t try to make it part of my customs and beliefs.

I mean this prejudice against ‘white’ people is everywhere, it’s on the exam scantrons that I have to write on for college tests, it’s in the newspaper at my college, it’s during Black History month, it’s during GLBT celebration week. And I am not saying that any of these things are bad but that I have yet to see a Straight Pride week, or a ‘White’ History month. It seems that everywhere we need to be aware and supportive of every other ‘race’ or gender but that European Americans or straight people are now being overlooked.

So you’re gay and proud of it; good for you, go ahead and stand up for yourself; but don’t try and force it on me and tell me that I have to be supportive too. I don’t have a problem with you being gay and you would have found that out if you had simply asked me instead of assuming that just because I am straight I am against you being gay*.

‘Race’ is one of the worst and segregating terms that I can conjure. If America used to be called a ‘melting pot’ and is now called a ‘tossed salad,’ then why is it all I can see is it being like a plate of totally different food where non of it is allowed to touch because, Heaven forbid one food might contaminate another. Walt Whitman has been called ‘America’s Poet’ and if you read ‘Song of Myself’ you might understand why. Whitman says that all the immigrants and non-immigrants have jobs, they all work to provide for their family, and as diverse as each individual is and each of their jobs are, at the end of the day one husband lays down next to his wife in the same manner that another husband lays down next to his wife. Whitman goes on to explain how each state is diverse and has a different culture, but together they make up what is America.

So, as far as I am concerned race doesn’t exist and nationality depends on what country you are a citizen of, not be based on the color of your skin. But as long as people are still referring to themselves as Irish American because their great-great-great-great-grandmother immigrated to America are going to claim to be Irish, then I will correct people for calling me ‘white’ and simply remind them to call me European American and inform them that they are lucky I don’t require them to call me by every country that any relative of mine might have come from. And trust me it would be long if I did.

*Again I am not attacking any sexual preference, this too can be applied to anyone arguing ‘race’ or any other sexual preference.