Thursday, May 15, 2014

Race Hatred

Donald (Topowitz) isn't simply a racist. He feels race hatred. I've met people of this ilk. Speaking to
and hearing someone who has this sense of race hatred can be chilling.
A racist is someone who enjoys a willingness to exercise any readily available advantage (meritorious or otherwise) over certain others, and so are thereby given to denigrating other people, usually with overt, hostile, or otherwise contempt-filled and contempt-infused behaviors, often even indifferent behaviors which attack  any or all of a racially different person's body, mind, spirit, other faculty, social construct skill and/or opportunity. Most racists become more intimately involved with the self-protected explanations for their attitudes, the longer they have the attitudes, rather than become more involved with the motivations which fuel the dispositions they espouse. Why be self-reflecting when all the reasons for specific behaviors are both well known and well rehearsed in the
mind of a racist's life. Racists also enjoy discussions with the like-minded to reinforce their beliefs
from both within and without. The seasoned contempt passes for cause and effect reasoning.
For this reason, victims of racist persons often have no idea what hit them in a specific situation until
similar situations have presented themselves in the victim's life more than once.
"We do bring property values down," people can be heard to say about their own groups.
I often think in those situations, 'Do the values go down before the banks, hardware stores, dentists,
physicians, shoe shops, florists, butchers, and grocers all leave the neighborhood or downgrade
services, or after all that happens?'
For one thing, these neighborhoods are 50+ years old before real estate decides to make them available to minorities. When business infrastructure moves to the newer neighborhoods, older
homes are difficult to maintain. Parts and labor for furnace maintenance or repair, for plumbing,
eaves, fixtures, etc. all become scarce, or unavailable, or both.
Race haters feel a guttural, existential hatred of the entire race they have designated as "lesser".
They seem to have the irrational idea that there is a ball of
'othering' in this world, and if it were all justly applied to the deserved race, none would be left in
the world to afflict any other person or group.
I believe race haters resent that some of their own race are willing to 'live and let live', especially
when they are themselves members of some minority or of a group not always and automatically
considered by people of their own race to be 'above' a racially designated group the hate filled have decided are inferior.
Donald (Topowitz) Sterling is a race hater. He frames any black person he must encounter as one
of those made in the image and likeness of his revulsion.
Topowitz sees his estimation of black people as a natural extension of how he likes to think of them, and he does realize he must protect his views as natural because those views will naturally bump into views of ordinary racists who often spew venom with material reward as a desired outcome. People like (Topowitz) Sterling cultivate  race hatred as unquestioned fealty to a pointed loathing- any circumstance notwithstanding.
Donald (Topowitz) Sterling can think of Black people in only two ways: owned and used, or excoriated and discarded.
He actively dislikes people who won't acknowledge a same or similar disgust for black people.
He chose Anderson Cooper for an interview. Anderson Cooper showed himself to be a bit disgusting
during 'Katrina".
Then Mr. Topowitz asked, 'What has Magic done for the black people?' What a scary way to speak.
He believes we are an entity. We are not black people. We are 'the' black people.
I wondered initially how anyone could see Mr. Earvin Johnson and think, "black people", and
"my games".
I see now that no black person can be an individual in Sterling's schema.
He thinks the way he needs to think in order to keep the dream alive...the dream that someday all races will automatically see 'big Magic' when they see Mr.Johnson; and have no care or idea
at all that the man is a world renowned icon.







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