I was surfing around on the net, and I found a story about the singing group Confederate Railroad being removed from a show at a fair in Illinois. Apparently the people in charge of the show thought the name CONFEDERATE RAILROAD was somehow offensive to someone. I think people need to grow a skin. This ban has been around for decades and has even played that fair before, so why now is it a problem and suddenly too offensive to play there just because of their name. I also think people need to learn a little history maybe they would not be so judgmental.
On a only slightly related note: Last summer a 3 on one beat down took place in front of my house. I had to call the police about it. Apparently the victim had a confederate flag bumper sticker on his car, and a group of young African Americans took offence at it, and decided to pull it off his bumper. (First I want to note if a Caucasian guy had pulled anything off an African American’s property, it would have been all over the news.) So the Caucasian boy got angry, as anyone would have if someone destroyed something they owned. He made a reallllllllly bad move on any level and tried to run them over. At this point first one of the young men started punching him in the face through his window, and then another one ran around the car and pulled the door open on the passenger side and started beating him from the other side. At this point a third African American guy jumped into the car and started pounding the Caucasian guy that was trapped in his car. Now if 3 Caucasian guys had pinned an African American guy in a car and did a 3 on one gang beat down, they would have been in jail and the news would have read: Three white men savagely beat up an African American man that was trapped in his car. NOW MY POINT OF ALL THIS: The guy with the car made a stupid move trying to run over the other guys, BUT if the other guys had realized this is America and people can have pictures on their bumpers if they want to. All they had to do was look in another direction and the problem would have been solved with no one getting hurt. I realllllllllly think some people try to use racism as an excuse for behaving badly.
I actually heard someone say one time that blacks cannot be raciest only whites can and to that I say, anyone who really believes that is really stupid. Anyone can be racist, but the truly smart people will choose not to be racist. If you look back through our history you will find many great inventions created from every nationality and color of people on the planet.
So after I heard that stupidity about Confederate Railroad being removed from the show because of their name, I felt the urge to write a poem. It may not be good but it is from the heart.
Always remember this is the land of the free, and you do not get to make my choices for me
Migrants from the other lands helped this country grow so why now do some want them to go.
Everyone is free to speak their minds; it does not mean we need to draw battle lines
Racism is not something only one color can do, anyone can be racist it is true
Intolerance of another person’s way of life is only good for causing strife
Criticism of someone because of their race is a disgrace
America is the great melting pot, built by many races up from the ground, so you have no rights to put anyone down
OK SO MY POETEY IS WEAK , BUT THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE IF EVERYONE WOULD JUST TURN THE OTHER CHEEK.
