RE: Rracism, etc.

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AMMAS son bows to your words.AMMAs son believes that you are correct when

you say that we are getting better where this issue is concerned.AMMAs son

believes when one gets better ,we ALL get better.we are ONE.we all effect

each other.AMMAs son would like to share something with you.HIP-HOP CULTURE

HAS HAD A STRONG PART TO PLAY IN THIS ,"WE ARE GETTING BETTER WHERE RACISM

IS CONCERNED."YES AMMAs son did say hiphop.PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT MOST

PEOPLE HAVE HIPHOP CULTURE CONFUSED WITH THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.HIPHOP CULTURE

HAS INTERGRATED MORE CULTURES AND ETHNIC BACKROUNDS THEN RELIGION HAS DONE

IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS.THERE ARE HIPHOP SONGS IN SANSKRIT.to someone who is

into HIPHOP,THEY ARE NOY CONCERNED AT ALL WITH THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN.THEY

ARE CONCERNED WITH YOUR CREATIVE ABILILTYS.WE MAY NOT LIKE SOME OF THE

LYRICS ON SOME OF THE SONGS,HOWEVER,THERE ARE PEOPLE FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE

AND CULTURE INVOVELED IN HIPHOP CULTURE.AMMAs son use to organize HIPHOP

SHOWS IN newyork and every culture from japanese american,to african

american ,to white american,to hispanic american where represented and there

was never a tench of racism to be found.as matter of fact AMMAs on had the

pleasure of bonding with and also performing with the first NATIVE AMERICAN

HIPHOP ARTIST IN NEWYORK CITY.HIS NAME WAS BEAR-BROWN.HE IS NOW GOING BY THE

NAME SASQUASH.when EMINEM shows up on the scene he has an antarage of

african american brothers with him.they have transended racism do to the

DIVINE GIFT OF HIPHOP CULTURE.AMMAs sons heart was filled with joy to know

that AMMAs darling children did break-dancing for HER.HIPHOP CULTURE HAS

TRANSCENED THE SO-CALLED RACE BARRIER. WE ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL IN OUR OWN

WAYS.we are all one as you so beautifully put it.to see the oneness in the

beautiful diversity is the goal here.everyones beauty needs to be

acknowledged. to see that one DIVINE BEAUTY that manifest ITSELF through all

of us is how are eyes should be attuned.it is true that we are all one ,but

can we truly say that we see the beauty that manifest through

everything?namah shivaya my beloved sister.

 

 

>Prasadini <ganesh1008

>Ammachi

>Ammachi

> Rracism, etc.

>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:35:52 -0800

>

>

>Namah Shivaya,

>Unlike Linda, I grew up in a small New England town. There were a couple

>of Black guys in our school, who were in my class. They were nice kids

>and we all liked them. I don't know how close they were to the other

>kids, as far as hanging around after school and stuff. I knew they were

>"different". Later, towards the end of high school, three kids who were

>"army brats" moved to our town, and they were black. They were also

>really nice kids, and everyone liked them a lot. There were two

>brothers, who were in the class ahead of me, and a girl who was in my

>class. We all liked her so much that she was voted queen of the senior

>prom. Someone commented to me years later that this was a form of

>racism, by singling her out. I don't know. I just know we all liked her,

>and maybe we wanted to counter some of the BS black kids have to take by

>voting her prom queen. She was just a regular, really nice kid.

>But there was racism in our family. My parents hated Italians. Yup. Hard

>to believe, and guess who looks Italian - moi. They also did not like

>Jews, Polish people, on and on. Catholics. Catholics were horrible

>people. More of them got to go through the four corners on Sunday

>mornings by the special cop who directed traffic. They also had too many

>kids. It was OK to have friends in school who were of these ethnicities

>and religions, but don't date one! I'll never forget the time I went out

>with an Italian guy from the next town on a blind date. My father hit

>the roof. That date was not a match made in heaven, so my father got

>all worked up for nothing. By that time I was a senior in high school,

>so it was a little late to firmly instill that little prejudice.

>When I went to Europe I saw a lot of racism. This was a long time ago,

>don't know what it's like now. The Romans didn't like the Florencians or

>the Venetians. I mean really didn't like them. Not like people from San

>Francisco kidding about the people from LA - cuz most people living in

>both cities aren't even from there, but moved there from somewhere else.

>Remember all of the Irish, Italian and Polish jokes? I know you can't

>tell them in California any more. It's probably been at least 15 years

>since someone told me me one of those jokes. Aren't they a form of

>racism, of separating people? And for what? Because their ancestors came

>from another country? Does that really make a person all that different?

>When I married my husband, his mother had a cow. She used to tell all

>kinds of goyem (sp?) jokes - definitely a case of reverse

>discrimination. It was her way of getting back at me because I wasn't

>Jewish. Well, that was something I couldn't do anything about. When she

>became really senile she stopped caring that I'm not Jewish..

>My point is, in all of this rambling, that there are all sorts of

>prejudices. "Class" prejudice. That's a good one. As Mother always says

>about the bird on the dry twig!

>A person who's living in a nice house and driving a nice car can loose

>them in a minute through any number of circumstances.

>To tell you the truth, I think people are getting better, not worse,

>about racism, classism. Don't know about ageism. But as long as any of

>this exists at all, it's too much. I always felt it was a way for people

>to feel better about themselves, by putting other people down. Then

>there's culture clash - a whole other issue.Pretty people don't like

>people who are less attractive and visa versa. Oh, my head hurts!

>These are all things that are on the surface. They have nothing to do

>with the heart. The heart really doesn't care about the color of skin,

>or money. Mother works her way into our hearts. She takes us to a place

>where we can see that all of this stuff is really stupid and we need to

>let it go. Throw it in the river, as Linda says.

>Mother does such wonderful magic with us. How can we, the children of

>the Divine Mother not see that we are all ONE? I guess we do, and that's

>the reason Mother is here, so She can take us ALL home, into Her.

>Pranams,

>Prasadini

>

>.

 

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