Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Racism makes me MAD!
I was at the Post Office this morning waiting to collect a parcel. An old sullen man was first in line and had definitely seen many days of sun without suntan lotion which apparently evaporated any happiness out of him.
He was obviously there to receive a parcel as he gave his tracking number over and waited for the lady to return. This lovely counter lady searched all over but could not find his parcel. It baffled me that within such a short time this man was getting so infuriated! Soon his upside down opening articulated the undeserved irate reflex reaction "incompetent", "you can't read". And openly intimating that the counter lady and manageress, from a previously disadvantaged background were stupid or at least not as clever as him just because of their skin colours!
This really makes me MAD that people can still openly exhibit disgusting racist habits in our lovely rainbow nation! If anything we should have extra patience for previously disadvantaged communities as he is part of the generation that disadvantaged them! We are the guilty ones and they are doing their best! And no matter if someone has a different colour skin, intellectual capacity, age, sex, income, religion, school or anything it doesn't make you better or worse off then them. We are all equal!
This story ends with an old sad man going home angry and bitter, blood pressure and stress rising, lifespan decreasing and a separation between people of the same nation. And the funny thing is it wasn't the lady at the counter or the branch manager who was stupid but it was the old sullen man whose parcel wasn't even there but will arrive tomorrow!
I have learnt that there are an infinite number of lessons we can learn from each other no matter who they are or what they have done. Be open to it. I am so proud of those two ladies that didn't react to that sad man. And I hope they dispelled all the bitterness and anger he forced onto them today.
Let's come together and stop racism. Learn to relax and have patience for everyone around otherwise you too will end up senile, sullen and stupid!
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He was obviously there to receive a parcel as he gave his tracking number over and waited for the lady to return. This lovely counter lady searched all over but could not find his parcel. It baffled me that within such a short time this man was getting so infuriated! Soon his upside down opening articulated the undeserved irate reflex reaction "incompetent", "you can't read". And openly intimating that the counter lady and manageress, from a previously disadvantaged background were stupid or at least not as clever as him just because of their skin colours!
This really makes me MAD that people can still openly exhibit disgusting racist habits in our lovely rainbow nation! If anything we should have extra patience for previously disadvantaged communities as he is part of the generation that disadvantaged them! We are the guilty ones and they are doing their best! And no matter if someone has a different colour skin, intellectual capacity, age, sex, income, religion, school or anything it doesn't make you better or worse off then them. We are all equal!
This story ends with an old sad man going home angry and bitter, blood pressure and stress rising, lifespan decreasing and a separation between people of the same nation. And the funny thing is it wasn't the lady at the counter or the branch manager who was stupid but it was the old sullen man whose parcel wasn't even there but will arrive tomorrow!
I have learnt that there are an infinite number of lessons we can learn from each other no matter who they are or what they have done. Be open to it. I am so proud of those two ladies that didn't react to that sad man. And I hope they dispelled all the bitterness and anger he forced onto them today.
Let's come together and stop racism. Learn to relax and have patience for everyone around otherwise you too will end up senile, sullen and stupid!
Feel free to share this story with your friends and family or comment below...
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3 comments:
Nice grant. Gabi
I saw something this weekend that made me realise the racial divide is still very much there. For us who grew up too young to understand this crazy thing called apartheid, it doesn't always make sense. What does make sense though is that we are called to bring reconciliation. I think that when we see such things we should ask the Lord to help us to show the predujuced how He loves those who they don't. Thanks for the article.
predjudiced...excuse typo
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