Americans are Racist and Ethnocentric, of that there is no Doubt

In this summer of 2020 there has been a pronounced time of introspection and recrimination for many Americans. We look into our own societies and we see evidence of police brutality and unfair treatment towards people of minorities, we review and consider unfair economic disparities between the majority white populations and those of color, we debate and protest and cry for justice and the end of racism, that hurts peoples of color, to acknowledge that Black Lives Matter. It is a statement and a movement, it has become a fact of American life. I understand a lot of these matters and disputes.

However, I posit that us Americans are biased, partial, and ethno-centrically racist in other profound and sad ways. We think about ourselves as individuals, a bit as families, communities, states and a country. We talk all day and night about elections and our presidents and American people, small and great, unknown and famous. But, do we care about people outside our country, who make up 95 percent of the planet? Not many of us do. We do not care or even know about them because we are inherently ignorant, self-serving, and racist.

Do the illicit drug sellers of our nation know how many Mexican people die every day due to the trade and sales of their product? Do the dope traders and hustlers of the United States even care about the innocent victims of their violence and mayhem within the confines of the United States alone? No, it seems more Americans are concerned with getting stoned and high themselves than to think about how many die due to their lawless choices and purchases. Shame on them!

 

But all of us Americans should share in the shame of the concentration camps in China; we do not care enough for the the Muslims of Xinjiang being "re-educated" and forced to live the totalitarian values of the People's Republic of China. One NBA official in Houston tries to bring light to how those people are people too, the National Basketball Association, the wealthy and powerful club that just delayed three days of their playoff games to protest a young man getting shot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, swallowed up their complaints with China. No, Americans are racist and greedy. We need Chinese money and support to keep the NBA dream of profit and status quo alive. The Houston official was actually bringing up the case of the millions of protestors in Hong Kong being smothered, by the way. Yes, China has freedom issues.

 

Who cares about Uighur in China, a few hundred thousand Muslims in concentration camps? So what if a few million minorities in China are being oppressed and bullied, arrested and killed for their differences? Uighur lives do not matter, it would seem. Drink up, fellow Americans, swill your beers and wines and liquors, get high on weed, or maybe Fentanyl and Methamphetamine as did the celebrated martyr George Floyd, and ignore the rest of the planet. Protest the police of all colors who make mistakes while enforcing the law where a hundred times that victims' number go on slaying each other as criminals and the countless collateral victims of their egregious violence and intimidation, often at the end of weapon. We do not remember and lionize the names of the minors butchered and blown away. Shame on us, racist, biased, Americans of gross prejudice. No wonder there is no justice nor peace!

 

Rohingha in Burma? What? Who cares? They are not real lives to care about. They are Muslim, too, apparently Muslim foreign lives do not matter. Americans are idiotically ignorant and indifferent. But that is okay, because Christian black lives in the continent of Africa do not matter, either. Thousands of them are harassed, pursued, and killed every year in dozens of African nations. Christians, Muslims, black lives. But they are not American, so who cares? We do care more about the drunk man in a Wendy's drive through who would not be arrested after forty minutes of dealing with peace officers, and the overdosing unemployed man who left a convenience store, with his cigarettes, after being questioned about his form of payment. Neither should have died but they were already killing themselves. Meanwhile thousands around our planet, primarily of color, to include Mexicans, are being mowed down.

 

No, a sexual assaulter in Wisconsin who possesses a knife and resists detainment deserves our time and anger and cries for justice! Not fair! Shot seven times!

Look up countries like Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia... Those lives do not matter?

No, not to the grand majority of racist Americans. Shame on us! Shame on us. Black lives matter. Or is it: American Black Lives Matter? 

Chinese lives do not matter. Burmese minorities do not matter. Muslims of any country do not matter. Christians in black countries of Africa do not matter.

Who else does not matter? Kurds in the Middle-East, Yazidi in Iraq, Palestinians in the Holy Land, Filipinos anywhere, Pakistani minorities...

If you do not know what I am referring to, pick up a journal, read a magazine, read fair and probing websites and news outlets. Do not count on CNN, FoxNews, or MSNBC. Why? Because these American news channels represent the the ignorance and racism of who we already are. It would be like checking on the wiesel or fox for the status of the hens in the hen house. U.S. news organizations depend on money, profits, and your continued ignorance and jumping onto bandwagons focused on the criminals and their plights, right here in the U.S. of A. And our people are racist and ignorant to keep up the charade, not even dreaming that there are people outside their house or neighborhood that matter. Black and brown lives. In Mali. In Ethiopia. In Burma. Countless places on the map that do not count to the average American. Not even Mexico counts enough, where your American selfish, self-defeating drug habits and addictions kill countless thousands, in all of their 30 states because of American illegal trading and buying.

Black lives matter?

That is a disingenuous lie perpetuated by some Americans that keep us living a lie. They do not mean it. If they did, they would really do something about ALL BLACK lives.

 

I have not even touched on Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, where millions of more people of color and African descended people live.

 

They don't count either.

 

Because they are not American.

 

Disagree with my thesis? Fine. Tell me how you care and what ways to you put your money and efforts to work for the benefit of all those people around the planet who are suppressed, oppressed, and killed.

 

By paying taxes we do help fund the United Nations and a few other international organizations that purport to help those others outside our country.

 

But in the end, we don't care.

 

Only American lives matter, and sometimes a Canadian.