The world has changed.
I don't think you yet realize it.
I'm saying this not as a Malaysian, but as a part of this world.
It has changed.
It may not be a big deal, but it is.
Ninety percent of Americans are white.
And in America the colour of a man's skin has mattered.
Hence American Presidents have been white.
But it's not just been about that.
Power. Power in the world.
To exercise power across the face of the globe, historically, the colour of your skin has had to be white.
Those have been the rules of the global society. You don't get to hold the most powerful positions on this planet, unless you're white.
And whilst that was so, Apartheid still lived. It may not have been open, but a division lay across the globe. Because the colour of the skin of those living the most luxuriant lives and the colour of the skin of those making decisions that really concern the globe, has been white.
And white folk, despite their condemnation of South Africa have not really meant what they said. Because the colour of a man's skin did matter. What they really meant was; black folk rule black countries, white folk rule white countries. We'll trust black people to rule over black people in third world countries, but really, when it comes to it, colour still matters.
Today it doesn't.
Today it has been proven that the colour of a man's skin does not matter a jot.
Because if the people of the most powerful country in the globe, a country ninety percent of whom are white, a country renowned for the conservatism of its attitudes can ignore the clour of a mans skin in deciding who would make the best man to have his finger on the button that potentially sends us all to our doom, it means that it really is true today that the average person on the globe really does not attach any significance to skin colour.
Racism is history.
Racism is a dead set of beliefs.
The best man won, in SPITE of the fact he was a black man asking a predominantly white electorate to choose him over a white man.
America has grown up.
Humanity is growing up.
The world is a different place today.
Now I returned myself to my being of a Malaysian, Malaysia is yet to grow up...
To be concluded?
I don't think you yet realize it.
I'm saying this not as a Malaysian, but as a part of this world.
It has changed.
It may not be a big deal, but it is.
Ninety percent of Americans are white.
And in America the colour of a man's skin has mattered.
Hence American Presidents have been white.
But it's not just been about that.
Power. Power in the world.
To exercise power across the face of the globe, historically, the colour of your skin has had to be white.
Those have been the rules of the global society. You don't get to hold the most powerful positions on this planet, unless you're white.
And whilst that was so, Apartheid still lived. It may not have been open, but a division lay across the globe. Because the colour of the skin of those living the most luxuriant lives and the colour of the skin of those making decisions that really concern the globe, has been white.
And white folk, despite their condemnation of South Africa have not really meant what they said. Because the colour of a man's skin did matter. What they really meant was; black folk rule black countries, white folk rule white countries. We'll trust black people to rule over black people in third world countries, but really, when it comes to it, colour still matters.
Today it doesn't.
Today it has been proven that the colour of a man's skin does not matter a jot.
Because if the people of the most powerful country in the globe, a country ninety percent of whom are white, a country renowned for the conservatism of its attitudes can ignore the clour of a mans skin in deciding who would make the best man to have his finger on the button that potentially sends us all to our doom, it means that it really is true today that the average person on the globe really does not attach any significance to skin colour.
Racism is history.
Racism is a dead set of beliefs.
The best man won, in SPITE of the fact he was a black man asking a predominantly white electorate to choose him over a white man.
America has grown up.
Humanity is growing up.
The world is a different place today.
Now I returned myself to my being of a Malaysian, Malaysia is yet to grow up...
To be concluded?
2 comments:
How can anyone not vote for Barack Obama? He will give them free healthcare, free college tuition, etc... Will there ever be a chinese prime minister of Malaysia??? LOL.
It took the USA two hundred and twenty years to elect a black president.
Malaysia is only 50 years old.
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