Racism
I wasn’t
going to speak on this topic, it’s not good for business but I decided to say
something to provide insight. This topic
is taboo, people don’t want to speak about it and especially at this time, the
racial tensions are very high, it looks like it is on the verge of explosion,
with all these killings, protests, and news about so many people’s
frustrations.
But the way
I see it is that racism will always exist unless there is a spiritual
transformation that occurs within the individual, without that, racism will
always exist, racism is the mind, racism is the ego, racism is
competition. America thrives on competition,
capitalism is competition. You can’t
have capitalism without competition, you cannot be free from racism while
retaining the competitive mindset.
Having America be free from racism as a whole is like having America
drop capitalism, it’s like having America drop competition, that simply will
not happen, America is too powerful to allow that to happen.
But as an
individual, you can free yourself from racism, you can free yourself from
competition, you can free yourself from the mentality of stepping over somebody
else in order to be on top. Just
recently there was a hugely successful boxing match set up between Mayweather
and Pacquiao. You see how many millions
of Americans and people all over the world who were so excited to come together
to watch a fight, no these people did not come together to watch two men hug
and kiss for an hour, no they came to watch two people fight, two people from
different cultures, from different countries, and each person had the one they
wanted to win the fight. This is a
direct example of what racism is all about, it is about conflict between two
different cultures, conflict between two different countries.
As soon as a
person has pride from his “own” country over another, this is what racism is
all about, they call it “nationalism” but nationalism is just another term to
hide racism. When you feel that pride in
believing that America is better than Africa, because America is just so much
more powerful and full of success, this is the breeding grounds of racism. Just like the American boxer is seen by some
to be so much more powerful and successful than the Filipino boxer, this is the
breeding grounds of racism, this is the breeding grounds of “White” power.
People think
they are so much better than the KKK, actually a majority of the people in the
America have the KKK mentality. If you
are a competitive person, you have a part of the KKK mentality. The only way to liberate yourself from the
KKK mentality completely is to drop competition, is to drop your identification
with the Ego.
When you
watch sports, and you cheer for one team over another, this is the breeding
grounds of the racist mentality. Chicago
vs. New York is not too different than the USA vs. Africa or White vs.
Black. As soon as you choose this vs.
that, it becomes the breeding grounds towards racism. If you drop competition, if you no longer see
the difference between Chicago and New York, if you no longer see the
difference between the US and Africa, if you no longer see the difference
between White and Black, if all differences disappear if you see all states as
one state, if you see all nations as one nation, if you see all races as one
race, then you are free from racism, but if you still see the division, and you
still are for or against, if you are still divided. Then racism will not disappear. This understanding can only happen on an
individual level, as a nation, racism will never disappear, it is too strongly
rooted in our culture and upbringing, but as an individual you can make a
change, if you change, you have the power to change the world.
