With every course that I take, there is something that sticks out to me that gets me to thinking. Multicultural alliance is so important. Different people have a way of thinking and doing things differently. Cross-cultural communication is so important it helps people to become intuitive and sensitive to others, which helps with interacting. Communication helps with understanding others. It’s also should be understood that individualistic and collectivistic cultures differ too primarily in a negative sense. I can’t stand when a person wants to lump a whole group of people together based on a bad experience with one person, which is why I say some about certain people and not all.
I watched an interview that Phil Anselmo did; he is the former lead singer of Pantera. Some people call him a racist because of comments that he made in the past. He spoke of how he was an angry insolent child. He has gotten older and has matured. I know of racist people, and they later changed. I’m not saying that he ever was. I do know that skinheads and the KKK seek children who are angry and hurt to direct those emotions towards people of different races. Remember the movie American History X?
I saw a post that was so hateful it spoke about how the black people of today could never measure up to the black people of the 60s. I agree to a certain extent. The black people of today are strangers to the importance of unity. Not unity within the black community only but across racial lines. Some of the black people of today are tearing down the hard work that was done in the 60s.
There were some things that I did not agree with when Obama was in the office, but I did admire how his cabinet was multicultural. He understood the importance of people from every culture. People from all walks of life can offer some sound advice because sometimes the most valuable lesson is the kind that isn’t taken. I refuse to let that happen. I don’t want to miss a thing.
I have a post about sisterhood, and I consider my few friends as sisters. My friends are of different races. I am black, and I don’t have anything against some black women just the ones who makes everything a competition it’s not that serious. We as people, can sometimes be our enemies, and it is for no reason. For example, if more black women choose to date outside of their race, that’s great. What difference does it make if or when people come around? As long as they are doing better. Do you want to see one another succeed? Or is it about getting into a person’s business to use them as a case study? There was a time when we all thought differently about so many things. So why not extend the courtesy of understanding to others? We know more now then we did ten years ago and so on. Come on. And why does everything have to be about who idea was first George Washington Carver made peanut butter but do you think people think about that when they are eating Skippy or Jif. The first computer was established in 1946 but do you think the people on an apple computer thinks of that. Self-centeredness and self-absorbed people grind my gears!!!
My whole point is nothing positive comes from hate or division even if some don’t want to admit it. Unity stays in my vision.
Be Lifted 