I can't take the ignorance! lol

Hi!

So I was just having a discussion with this guy. He's older than me by a couple of years. He said I was standing up with white people lol Okay, I'll explain it.

So I guess there is this case with someone named Ferguson (I don't know the actual story), and there is a protest in the location where I live. He called the people stupid for doing what they're doing. I explained to him that I don't know much about this case, but I don't think people are dumb for protesting. He said it was a waste of time. Now, I explain that I've had the pleasure of actually knowing someone who protested once before. When they protest they're trying to have their message heard by whomever they're protesting against.

I also explained to him that I think protesting can only do so much. I based this on the past, and even if things are fulfilled, the question is whether it will continue to stay that way. Moving on, he goes to say that there are white people there and that they are all show. He then started to shame white people and saying they aren't human. I started to get upset and a little shaken up, but I tried to keep my composure. I asked him why he felt that way. He said because they kill people.

Moving ahead a bit, I made the statement that people of what one white person did, does not make them all inhumane. He was trying to go against me, saying that white people are caveman, and they they stole a lot of things from people. He also was trying to school me on the world human. Breaking it up this way:

Hue, which means colors. Black is the true color. White isn't a color.

Seriously?! It seems he was trying to break the word up in this favor. Rather than doing that, look up the origin of the word. We then had a discussion about the origin of words. I dunno, it was kind of all over the place lol

Overall, he started passing judgement on me on the fact that I'm standing up for white people (in other words, standing up for my beliefs and not trying to separate people based on skin color), and that I don't care for black people lol honestly, how are you going to make a claim like that. He wouldn't stop talking, and I had to wait for him to finish making his claims. I told him I'd stick up for anyone despite the color of their skin.

Simply, this man who happened to be white, killed a black man and he's not going to jail for it. I understand the fury behind why people feel the way they do. My problem is this, are they looking at this situation as a man who killed another man? Or are they seeing it as a racial thing?

Killing someone is not right. I don't believe taking someone's life is right, I don't care what color skin a person has. Here's the thing, black people kill black people !WHOOOO. WHAT? You don't say!? Is this a serious crime? Yes! Do people make such a huge problem out of it as they would had it been a Latino or an Asian that killed a person of another race.

I just don't get it. Am I suppose to dislike a certain race because of what one person of that race did? Am I suppose to dislike the same thing you dislike because it'll make you feel like you can connect to me? What kind of sense does that make? It's like disliking me because I prefer to put only ketchup on my hotdog and not mustard. It's like feeling as if you can't connect to me or want to talk to me because I like wearing pink clothes? Have we really moved that far away from each other that, you're not consider one of "them", if you don't do and like and dislike what they like? Them being a group. If it means that I have to force myself to dislike something or someone to benefits you, I rather not. It wouldn't be true to me.

Anyway, make the statement "men are usually logical right?" and yet, he said he's not logical, and that he takes things he's experienced and put them together, that he uses "common sense". I told him that logic is a way of reasoning (he didn't know the meaning of the word). So it seems he makes claims, based on his own ideas of them. Which is fine. I have no problem with this. I just didn't feel it was okay for him to be putting people down and saying they aren't human, and calling them cave people. I stated what I felt needed to be stated.

Now I will admit (and I told him this as well), that he has a strong personality. He speaks his mind, but I don't think he's met anyone like me lol I take what people say and I flip it around and see if they get where they're going with their statements.

Oh, about the word thing (the word human), he told me I was getting technical. I think he thought I wasn't listening, or even cared to remember, to what he mentioned before. Before he was telling me how words originated from somewhere. That English isn't just something people from Europe made up. We both confirmed that English came from Latin roots, and possibly even some Greek (don't quote me on the Greek lol), and we agreed on this. So, when I started to look up the word, he told me it wasn't necessary. I decided to be more specific and find facts (no one likes facts, and I will admit that facts can sometimes, not be the true facts because things change). I tell him the word is of Latin root. He asked me why it's important, and I explained that if you want to get to the root of the word, find it's origin. He didn't like that.

The word Human is a Latin word. The original word was not human, but Homo, then to Humanus. Homo means "men, human being", think of the word Homosapien.

He wasn't satisfied. After a while I just started ignoring him lol I was getting to shaken up over nothing. I came to the conclusion that this man obviously wanted to continue to believe this. So I just told myself that it's okay, and to let him just vent and leave. Which is what he did lol If a person wants to feel or think a certain way, go ahead. Just don't try to pull me down to your level. Don't talk about people around me, and don't try to make me negative.

He classified me as an optimistic. I'll admit, that I am, but I also think....hm...I'm not sure if it's realistic, but I think like this, I see a problem, I begin to think of ways to resolve that problem. Sometimes the best ways to solve a problem is not always easy, and can even be a way that we don't necessarily want to do, or think will solve the problem. But until we do that, I truly believe we'll continue to see this lesson appear over and over again in our media.We'll keep creating situations that fuel what we believe and think. This is a collective consciousnesses thing.

Hm....I'll say this, for those who say "I bet (something negative) will happen)" and they keep saying that over and over again in their heads, and then it happens, well, this happens because you are intending for it to happen. Now, imagine this on a grander scale. If people are all constantly sending out that thought that such and such will happen, it will be. People will find this hard to believe, but let's not state this as some religious thing. Let's take this from things normal people may experience in life.

If you keep thinking you won't pass a test and you spend all of your time worrying that you won't pass it, how can you ever focus enough to study well enough to get a good grade? Then you fail the test, and feel defeated and you "knew that it would happen". Well of course you did, you created it for yourself.

Think of it like this, when you place your attention on something, you put your attention on it. It is not in your field of vision and it's something you see. This is how consciously thinking something over and over again can come into your field of vision.

That doesn't mean that if you think positively for a day everything will change overnight. No. But it is the beginning. It's something that has to be constant. Everyday, starting with you, start the intent that you will be loving, that you will show compassion, that you will not judge. The people you affect will began to mirror this!

I'm not making this up. I can tell you that the person who sabotages me the most is myself. I never sabotage others, and I realize that I actually have met a lot of nice people, and I've also realize that if I did pass judgement in the past, and I made the mistake of saying some inappropriate things to someone else, the people I knew were a reflection of this. After I stopped, those people suddenly fell from my life (no joke, I lost the cellphone with all those people's contact numbers in them), so yes, I'm a believer in this.

So, even after reading all of this, if you choose to continue to stay where you are, and you're happy. Go ahead. As long as your happy. The thing is, is that I'm not speaking of religions, I'm only speaking of togetherness. We'd work a lot better if we learned to work together. Yeah, we're individuals, but we're individuals sharing one planet. You know, I can see how things can become hectic lol Think of us as living in one house lol we're gonna have arguments, some of us will be inconsiderate of others, and some of us will not clean up our mess. But it's until we learn to cooperate with one another that we will, little by little, be able to stand each other lol

On that note, I'm off!

Mon