I Hate Ignorant People!!!!!

I'm writing this post and I am extremely upset. Here I am minding my own business when my 'friend' (I'm still not sure if I should call anyone so ignorant my friend), bursts out that she doesn't understand the 'hype' over Jamaica's Independence or over the Emancipation of slaves.

To put this into context, Emancipation Day was celebrated on August 1 and marks the day black slaves were considered free men, the day when they would not have to toil under their masters' whip. The day when blacks could try to reclaim their dignity and stop being chattel to their white owners, mere animals created for nothing else but manual labour. Jamaica also celebrated its independence from Britain on August 6. Several events were held across the island to commemorate these two events.

So back to my ignorant 'friend', I could let it slide about the independence thing. Though I am fiercely patriotic, I can understand if people feel disillusioned by the fact that our country still has so many problems. Her Emancipation comment rocked me to the core though and I am seriously contemplating slashing her from my list of friends.

I mean how can you use the word 'hype' in the same sentence as Emancipation? I tried to explain to her that Emancipation is not about hype in the first place, and that secondly I thought she was ignorant for having the gall to be ungrateful that so many thousands of people died so that we could be free. In Jamaica here, many persons were hanged for starting the freedom uprisings. In the US people were lynched for having the audacity to be black and breathe the same air as whites.

Mark you, reflecting on Emancipation is not a time to be bitter and to hate whites, it's a time to celebrate the coming of age of the human race on a whole and the end of ignorance (which my 'friend' seems intent on perpetuating). Therefore, how can you even have the balls to after suggesting there is too much hype around Emancipation say you are not even sure we are better off being free? To me, that's an affront to our ancestors and shows that person is really better off being a slave, because, clearly that person does not deserve to walk among humans as equals, because while as a race we have not fulfilled our potential in several areas, the hope that our forefathers had when they fought for emancipation is still alive and the dreams of our forefathers can still be realised.

I don't even feel any way about being so harsh, anyone that ignorant does not deserve consideration. Anyone who even for a moment thinks that perhaps I would be better off in chains, chopping sugar cane or picking cotton cannot be my friend. Anyone who thinks being treated like an animal and being sold like goods could have any positive sides CANNOT be my friend. Anyone who thinks like this is certainly still a slave.