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Tired of the Hate

I've written three blogs tonight and deleted all three. I'll just say this. If you see that I'm no longer your friend on Facebook, please don't think this doesn't mean we're not "friends." It simply means that I'm weaker than you and while you can and have put up with reading things that you disagree with, I can't handle your racist tones. If you defend someone because he's your friend, but bash every other black person, because he's a thug, that is racism. Your loyalty doesn't mean you're not racist, it just means you're selective.

I don't mean for this to only apply what is in the news now. If you think there is comedy in women being raped, I'm going to have to stop reading your posts and I assume, you mine. I've always found it interesting that men with daughters continue to be friends with rapists, but that's your business. That women support the husbands of their beaten friends. I've never understood that logic or the logic of knowing deep down that a friend hurts his children and doing nothing about it. I for one have never been able to sit back and take that.

Listen, if we're together and you want to make fun of the fact my mother was Jewish and call me cheap or tell me I have a small penis, that's fine. I grew up with blacks, Spanish, Asian, Jewish, Christian, Muslims and everything in between and I've made fun of all of them and them me, but this was to each other's faces and with no animosity. It's the anger, the rage and the ignorance that disturbs me. If we were face to face, I would ask you to stop or walk away, so just view this as me walking away. If you take it personally, I can't help that, but know that you hurt our friendship, not I, because I thought I knew you and you proved me wrong about yourself.

I am sorry, if this offends anyone down the road, but the things I want to say might have become too personal. So I'm leaving this as the only thing I'll say.

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