The First Post

Ladies and gentleman, I proudly bring you my first post. I feel to be fair to my readership I should introduce myself, who I am and what I stand for. I must begin by saying I am a human being. I know that may not seem like a bold statement but in this day and age, that statement is far more profound than one may think. I have a great interest in my own welfare as well as that of my fellow man. I worry about my own mortality as I do the mortality of others. This type of thought often influences my opinions and decisions.
I worry greatly about my own freedom and that of others. One of the things that separates us from animals is that we are in control of our own lives (for the most part). I am very tired of sitting back and watching our freedom not be pried from our cold dead hands but rather given away as one gives out candy to children on Halloween night. Children of course are inherently greedy, so if you give them one candy they want more until really you have no candy left to give. This is the state of our nation.
I am also a college student. I currently attend a wonderful junior college and will be transferring to a prestigious four year institution within the next year. Something that disturbs me is the utter propaganda which students are forced to swallow in order to receive the grades necessary to achieve admittance into said prestigious universities. History classes which subtract every achievement by saying “blacks and women didn’t have the opportunity”, sociology classes which claim “white men expanding and being greedy is the cause of all the world’s problems”, English classes that focus on minority writers and teach white man’s guilt as an inherent concept. This is propaganda and it is wrong. I accept some of what they say. They are right In the America’s blacks were oppressed, this is absolutely true. Women didn’t receive suffrage until the 1920’s and they still have a glass ceiling. But do I need to hear about how Jackson beat the British in New Orleans, but women didn’t receive their due credit as nurses. Do I really need to read on every page some sort of reference to a contextually irrelevant racial indiscretion.
ENOUGH ALREADY!
I am white; I guess I should make that clear. But I am also a first generation immigrant. I was born here but I didn’t speak English until I was school age. My family was heavily discriminated against. After all coming to the U.S. from the USSR during the height of the cold war would be somewhat akin to a Muslim in an airport the day after 9/11. The only difference is the Russians who came didn’t have a civil rights group or anything like that. They accepted their lot and bettered themselves as best they could. That being said I come from a disenfranchised class and my family didn’t arrive in the states until the late 70’s. Why should I be assumed to have white guilt? I did nothing wrong. Nor did my ancestors, frankly speaking the word Slav comes from slave, so most likely my ancestors were slaves at some point in time.
I can accept that I do receive some opportunities because of my race, but at the same time I receive an equal amount of disadvantages. As far as statistics go less minorities go to college and more are in prison etc. (I took soc, I get it, it’s my fault!) but at the same time if a minority should have the opportunity, the amount of financial assistance available to them is so much larger than the amount available to a WASP(I’m not a WASP I just look like one, I guess minorities have to be separated by ethnicities but whites are just whites. How about we all be Americans?) Or similar. This is not to blame them, Capitalism (while we still have it) says take what you can get do what you can to better yourself. Rather my qualm is with a society that says if you are white you did wrong, and are inherently evil. This system forgets that many minority groups are in fact white. Jews, Albanians, Serbs , Christians in Muslim nations received far worse treatment during their respective genocides and other global conflicts than did minority groups in the U.S., frankly a concentration camp prisoner would trade his arm to be a slave on a plantation. While I disagree heavily with the politics of dear leader Barak Hussein Obama, I will say he holds the marks of a true capitalist in the tradition of Jackson. He came from the bottom and through hard work and luck he made it to the top. Now trying to take that ability from others, well it is simply not fair, but that deserves its own post at another time, I digress.
That above discussion of colligate propaganda was far longer than I thought it would be. I am sure I will discuss it more at length as it pertains to economics as well as other important issues of the day.
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