Sooooo Tired of Ignorance!!!

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Added: Wed. Jan 16, 2008 10:56pm
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I am sick and tired of ignorance!!!

Why is it so difficult for people to stop being ignorant and start being educated?  And I'n not talking about what we learn in school, but about what idiotic things our parents, grandparents, great grandparents...etc., have brainwashed some of us to believe. I'm talking about learning about your fellow man and that just because someone is a different color, or religion or sexual orientation, doesn't make them bad, or evil, or damned!!!

I'm also fed up with people who don't believe that prejudice exists, especially in the south!!! Listen up folks, I was raised Jewish in the south in the 60's and 70's and there was so much prejudice against Blacks, Jews, Hispanics,...you name it, unless you were a blonde haired. blue eyed White, Anglo Saxon, Protestant or Baptist, you were picked on and discrinated against. I was personally called a murderer more than a dozen times growing up. The first time, when I was about 9 or 10 years old.  I made fast friends with a girl at a girlscout camporee but as soon as she found out I was Jewish, she stood up, looked me dead in the eye and said, "You killed Jesus!" SHe left me sitting there in tears. Hec, I didn't even know who Jesus was!!! I was 10 years old for Christ's sake!!! (LOL)

And another thing, there are actually some idiots out there who swear the Holocaust never happened. Wake up and smell the charred flesh of Auschwitz people, it happened and a lot of my greatgrandparents families were wiped out. The ones' that my GreatGrandfather couldn't manage to help escape before the war started. I've seen the footage that someone managed to take of the attrocities that took place and the seemingly unimaginable horror that these monsters we called nazis inflicted on their fellow human beings. It happened, so, stop being ignorant and learn the facts.

Finally, I'd like to end my venting with this...there are lots of ways a person can be called a liar. I don't lie, I find it much easier to just be honest, yet, today, I was called a liar 3 times. I was told that I was full of crap, that I was making up stories, and that I didn't know what I was talking about when I said I had been called murderer by more than one ignorant,redneck, southern baptist; and n----r lover ( I hate that word, but I'm trying to prove a point) by a bunch of kids when I was in 3rd grade. This person had the audacity to say that my parents taught me these things. So, I said, so you're caliing my parents liars too? ! ! ! My parents never taught me to hate anyone!!! My parents only taught me to love and to be honest! My parents have been married for almost 54 years and never cheated on each other, ever!!!  We should all be so lucky to have parents  like mine.

So, the next time you have a prejudiced thought or want to accuse someone of telling stories, think about what I've said. Put yourself in the other person's shoes before you open your mouth and stick both feet in it!!! That's my blog, and I'm sticking to it. 

Oh yea...I was raised Jewish, but now I find myself open minded to other ways of thinking and praying, and a newfound spirituality. I only want good things for this world and I am hoping to possibly unite the hippy in all of us to bring peace to this world in our time.  It will require education and people becoming more tolerant of each other.

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog!!! Peace, Love, Joy, and Light!!!Joanna