How Ī'm Feeling

How Ī'm Feeling!

July

Some people wonder why brown people can't work reverse discrimination 'right'.

The Rosa Parks American Herstory story, as I learned it, was about a group of people who decided to give 'better-than-equal' status to themselves; and felt enabled to discriminate on racial grounds (based upon a person's ethnic classification).

In My Opinion, because this group felt 'uncommon,' they may have felt 'above the law.'
Whatever the average bus riding person felt while riding the bus in our warm climates, a half-century ago, I learned that because a few people felt the need for added privileges, laws were created to grant privilege, privileges that everybody who rode buses, or shopped and ate at resturants could not enjoy.


As I understood the American Herstory lesson, one woman decided to not automatically 'give up' her seat; so, I was told, she sat. I was told that this event set off the Civil Rights Movement in America in the Twentieth century.

I understood that a group of people challenged the lawmakers, because they believed such laws were not 'just' or were unfair to all people, all American citizens who rode buses, ate in resturants or shopped at local businesses.

To my modern notion, that's like saying every person who bought a bus ticket must find a seat...no pushing, name calling, or removing other people from their seats.

Did I miss the point?

When I received my education, I was taught that large groups of diverse people (not a small minority) together made rules to determine what was fair, or determine what equal considerations meant for American citizens. I learned there were good reasons to award 'privilege' or 'special considerations' to individuals.

As an example, I mention laws that help handicapped people with special needs who needed extra space because of a wheelchair they may need to transport on a public bus. Handicapped people could receive "special considerations," or seating near the front of a bus, or in a spacious, special area; children could receive special considerations or special seating, if they were traveling without parents (all children traveling alone could sit behind the bus driver, to help ensure the child's safe travel).

Currently, a few people may wonder, why can't brown people discriminate against other brown people? What prevents a group of 'in-need-of-feeling-privileged' brown people from demanding 'better-than-equal-treatment? What prevents brown people from walking-up to other brown people and demanding they 'get-up,' and let them sit down...or move from their apartment, or leave their job, giving them that 'good job'. I know that people will take from other people...sneakers, boyfriends, husbands...but good apartments? Or a good table at a nice resturant?

If the BET Awards charged each person who attended the Image Awards show the same admission price, would it be fair for an 'average' brown person to demand that another brown person 'get-up' and let them have a good seat (which may be a seat closer to the stage)?

In My Opinion, rich people believe that as long as they are rich, they can pay, or have their business or company pay, for first-class seating.

Ethical people seem to believe that they can enjoy first-class seating as long as they can afford such luxuries...otherwise, they would probably sit in coach.

Good looking people can be heard complaining...'get your 'broke-looking' A$$ to the back...yet what happens when a 'I'm good look'n' type person tells another brown person to 'get up'?
If they get up, does that mean that reverse discrimination will be allowed in the future (based upon 'I look better than you' values, and not because common people follow rules)?