Racial Seperation and Reverse Discrimination

I live in a very diverse area where Latinos make up 60% percent of the majority, and African-Americans 30%. I grew up here, just north of the bronx: and have learned to love it. Iam proud to have grown up where I did, not so that I can go places and wave my ghettoness like a flag, Iam proud to have grown up here because I believe it is the way people should develope. You need to know at a young age that the world is very diverse, not everyone is your color, not everyone speaks your language etc. Iam proud that I wasn't the 6 year old boy in the post office that upon seeing the first African-American had to ask his mother "what color is he". Despite the diversity, I still see a lot of racial seperation. When we went to lunch I saw that the Cubans sat with eachother, the Argentines sat together as did everyone else. This is no surprise, these people could relate to those of the same race: they spoke the same language and ate the same food. This voluntary racial seperation comes as no surprise, except when I turn on my television. When I turn on my television and watch BET(Black Entertainment Television), a network that broadcasts by blacks for blacks. In the commercials all the actors are black, everyone on that channel is black, it didn't bother me. To me it was no different than the radio stations in Spanish, or the spanish speaking channels on T.V. It began to bother me when I watched "B.E.T news" and they reported on pop-culture and the death of Johny Cochran but than they reported on a school in queens. Where the (black) principal of this school who was in the reserve was called to go to Iraq and they were reporting on this mans impact on this (black) community in queens. But than I realized, this is national T.V, everyone who watches B.E.T in america and possibly other places will see this. This story about this principal in queens should be on a local news station not national television. It hit me than that B.E.T wasn't reporting on this man or his impact, they were reporting on him because he was black, they interviewed students because they were black, they covered this story because it was a story in a town where there wasnt a white person to be found. Im not preaching togetherness, Im not trying to save and/or change the world, but this has to go. B.E.T's racial seperation is no good: they are trying to create a society for African-Americans, a different world, and incase they havent realized, theres only one world. I look back at the way African-Americans were treated and Im ashamed, ashamed to be caucasian, and ashamed to be american. But now B.E.T is using these decade old occurences in their defense. Just think about what would happen if someone started C.E.T, Caucasian Entertainment Television, activisits would be on them in a minute, and they would be shut down.

It reminds me of a what I read in the paper a few months ago, a white teen gets expelled for trying to start a club for whites, after being turned away from other clubs dominatd by African-American students. Its reverse-discrimination, and it is happening everywhere here in the U.S. Its almost like its ok for African-Americans to be racist, but its not ok for whites to be racist. Slavery and Segregation were horrible things, but we as society cannot use these or allow these to be used as excuses for racism and racist actions. Its not ok for anyone to say nigger (because of the way I feel about this word I will refer to it as "the N-bomb" throughout the remainder of this post) Its not ok for whites, or blacks or anyone. People think it is ok for African Americans to use the N-Bomb, but its not. Its not ok to have slavery and segregation influence how non-blacks think about african-americans or how they think about the rest of the world. And it is definatley not ok to use these as excuses or insults to any race. They were horrible occurences that are now in the past. We musn't dismiss the wrong-doing of a race or one person because of slavery of segregation. Reverse Racism is wrong, just as wrong as racism itself. A jewish man kills a German, are you going to say its ok because of the holocaust, ofcourse not.

We need equality! and it isn't going to come from B.E.T's seperation from the rest of the world, or reverse discrimination excusing this seperation or anything else.

Just a thought, excuse some generalizations and acknowledge how hard it is to be politically correct all the time