Educate Yourself Before Posting on My Blog

As some of you know, I started this blog to keep in touch with those back home and to share my college experience with those who helped me get to Trinity. I couldn’t have done it alone! When I was home this summer, I checked my blog to find that someone had left a comment in response to what I had written in my post about Black people living in Idaho. It read, “I don't get it. Why do minorities insist on moving to white majority states? then they complain about how there's no diversity and how "racist" it is. If you want diversity don't move to a white state and force that crap on us. We don't want to see diversity, we see plenty of that in Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago, all high crime places. I want to be able to walk down the street at night and not have to worry about getting raped by some gross black thug.”

I was very upset after reading this and I wanted to post something badly. My friends and family suggested not to post anything while I was angry and to not take someone who would say something like that seriously. I took their advice, but now I am saying something. Sarah Miller, this post is for you and other people who feel justified in saying the things that you did. I am not going to let you get on my blog and get away with saying ridiculous things.

I’ve got three points to clarify for you:

1. It’s very interesting that you list cities known for diversity as Detroit, Los Angeles and Chicago. You seem to have forgotten New York and Houston. Did you know that Vallejo, California is the most diverse city in the US on the list created NerdWallet.com?  To measure this, they looked at how Hispanics, Whites, Blacks and Asians are distributed in the city. Having a high concentration of one race like in Detroit is not an example of diversity.

2. You seem to think that having diversity means dealing with crime. You seem to suggest that minorities are the only ones committing crimes and as soon as you add them to the mix, to what you call “white majority states,” crime rates are going to increase. I don’t know the statistics on who is committing crimes here in America, but I am sure you can find that crimes are committed by people from different background.

3. Lastly, you have some nerve with your last claim about, “I want to be able to walk down the street at night and not have to worry about getting raped by some gross black thug.” You have insulted my father, my professors, my cousins, my friends and other people in my community who happen to be Black. You seem to think that your position as a White woman entitles you the right to “fear” Black men because they have nothing else to do with their lives except to go walking down the streets late at night looking to rape a White woman. Who are you? Do these people not have a purpose in their lives except to go hunting to rape women, specifically White women?

Sarah Miller, maybe you are one of those people who uses the internet to say terrible things because there’s no accountability and you can hide behind a screen. Maybe you’ve grown up in a community that has the same beliefs as you and minorities should stay away because they aren’t wanted. Who knows? What I do know is this; don’t go around insulting people and making claims about diversity, minorities and rape until you get yourself educated and I have no reason to make any counterarguments because you are justified in your thinking.