Chaotic Hangouts
Chapter 28: Racism.
Date: May 4th, 2024
It has now been about 2 weeks since the battle against Sailor Galaxia, Nehelenia, Goku Black, and other villains in the Sailor Moon universe followed by the beginning of our campaign to take back the universes conquered by our enemies. And even though war battles have constantly been a daily occurrence for all of us in the BRAINS Collective as a result, something chaotic still happened on a day in which many of us were able to have an evening to recuperate from a battle which was also a attempt to take back the Beyblade Metal Saga universe. We barely succeeded. It was difficult to say the least but when it was over, someone had the bright idea of suggesting to chill out at Phineas and Ferb's backyard of all places. Let me skip forward to that. Phineas and Ferb participated in that battle by doing on-sight tech repairs and the like. And they were happy to have all of us over and quickly got to work expanding their backyard in a way that violates physics like they did for the monster truck arena, beach, and some of the other various things they've built. What they created was sort of a greatest hits. The framework of the place was Cheesetopia but it also had their roller coaster, backyard beach, Chez Platypus, haunted house, and more. Currently, most of us are at the new version of Chez Platypus and there's a dance floor now. "Shake your booty butt. Shake it, shake it, shake your booty." Roach of course was doing his dance to that song from the Supernoobs song but he wasn't alone in doing that. A lot of us were doing that including Carlos which is completely unsurprising.
Sinon shakes her head at seeing this: "Well, I guess that's something.." I nod: "Very little surprises me-" "CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!" Abridged Jack Atlas enters the restaurant on his duel runner shouting that. Bulma smacks him with a giant drumstick: "Hey! NO DUEL RUNNERS IN THE RESTAURANT!" "Jack Atlas doesn't care! Jack Atlas does what he wants! CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!" I sweat drop and turn my attention away from that. I get back to focusing on what I'm eating and only that. It doesn't take too long for me to finish my meal and that was literally that. However, things were about to get seriously chaotic but for now, it wasn't that bad. No fires, no fights, no pranks. Just "Shake your booty butt". I conversed a bit with most of those I was sharing a table with and when I mean converse, I mean talk every so often and mostly listen instead of talking much more. That's when the music playing stops and an all too familiar voice speaks through a microphone: "I hope you're all having an excellent time. I also hope you dig the performance I'm about to begin." Isabelle(Animal Crossing) cheers: "K.K. Slider!! You're here!" The dance floor also has a stage for the DJ but with enough space for other things as well. Due to this, that's where the attention of most of us ends up going including me. And there he is. K.K. Slider with his acoustic guitar. He has become a vital part of the entertainment section of the BRAINS Collective, helping motivate members in battle just like Yuna and Miitopia's Pop Stars. Oh and the likes of the Doo Whooper monsters from New Lumos in Miitopia as well.
Doo Whoopers are always seen wielding guitars. In the past, they were annoying, causing adventurers to sometimes get hyper at bad moments like when the healer in their party is unconscious and they themselves can only rely on HP bananas to heal themselves as a result. Now, they fight alongside us. Anyway, K.K. Slider quickly begins singing. The first song he sings is Welcome Horizons. Not that long ago, he visited my new Animal Crossing New Horizons island called Harmony(I recently started playing that game) and put on a unforgettable show. Right as that song ends, a heckler screams: "Colors! So many colors!" And then they start screaming that over and over again despite the fact that there were no special effects going on. It was more annoying for me because they sounded like they were seated really close to where I was seated. So I look behind me and find the culprit who just won't stop. An awkward silence falls amongst all of us as they keep going on. K.K. Slider on microphone asks: "Hey there. Is something the matter?" "YES! Your colors! So many of you have colors that aren't white!" A lot of us sweat drop. Abridged Yami Yugi speaks: "Okay, who the hell is this guy? I'd like to silence him with children's card games now." The person screams: "My name is Spencer! And while I do love how you're one of the few with a correct skin color-" Fukaziroh exclaims: "Okay, this guy is nuts. If no one will take care of him, I will." I bluntly state: "Spencer, I don't know where you came from but you sound really racist right now. I'm staying calm in order to better access what you're saying. You need to stop it or leave. I don't think anyone here enjoys the fact that you're interrupting K.K.'s performance."
"I'm not racist! I love people even if their skin color is wrong!" Kazuma replies: "Yeah, you're totally not racist! Not! You're as problematic as that useless goddess, Megumin, and Darkness are!" "KAZUMA! IM NOT USELESS!" "Not the time, Aqua!" "You started it!" "So what?! It's true that you're problematic!" "Says you, KAZUTRASH!" Kaito speaks firmly: "It would do both of you well to stop yapping like that immediately. Unless you want to face the wrath of Galaxy Eyes." "EEEEEEEKKKK!" Kazuma sighs: "Fine." Amy with her hammer held high shouts: "I'm watching you, Spencer!" "Like I care, you weird furry freak." "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?!" "Heh. You heard me." I state: "Okay, are you going to start spouting blood libel now or something? Seriously, just spill it already. Each and every one of us is perfectly capable of killing you in some way in seconds or not even a second in many cases." "Shut up, race traitor!" "Race traitor? Pretty sus for someone who is 'not racist' to say. Though to be honest, someone who is actually marginalized for the color of their skin due to racism can speak better on this than I can. But I will say this: The Sociology Book states that race is a nonsense concept and I completely agree. Racist people like you are so cruel yet so absurd. It can be hard to determine whether or not to deal with you seriously or just laugh at how pitiful and pointless your racist hatred is. Or take pity on you for the fact that your mind has been poisoned by racist dogma. The final option is the most peaceful and most likely one to cause open dialogue and change."
"Race traitor! Nothing you say means anything! Your words are empty because you associate with those disgusting black-" At that moment, most of us including myself remove our various disguises and/or illusions that have been concealing our gears due to the fact that members of the general public are also in this restaurant. But this doesn't faze Spencer that much. It only causes him to lose his train of thought in reaction to the suddenness of what we just did. Barla speaks: "I'm about ready to shoot this guy myself if it weren't for the fact that we are trying to avoid violence when we can. We're trying to promote one hell of a peaceful atmosphere but it's too often that that isn't enough. I'm holding back and it's difficult to." I nod: "Spencer, you have pretty much pissed all of us off. You are lucky that none of us immediately jumped on you to beat you to a pulp or worse because that's what you're deserving at this point. When you say something hateful because of someone's skin color of all things, you can't expect people to just not respond and sit down in silence, not wanting to get into an argument. Actually doing that by the way is a really good way of allowing the status quo to be upheld. I'm also struggling to hold my temper at this point. If you tip the line any further, you're as good as done for. People like you are part of the reason why so many nations in existence are contaminated with hatred and more. Your racism may have been learned from at least one external source but your denial of being racist shows your character and that you have bad intentions and a severe stubborn hatred, doesn't it? You don't want to listen to our criticism or try to see how you could do better."
Spencer smirks: "You disgusting vile leftists! You talk all about this so called racism and more all the time! And yet at the same time, you associate with dark skinned freaks who deserve to be locked up in jail and segregated from decent society!" Eva(SHINC) replies: "You are one damn bastard, aren't you? You aren't afraid of us. You're either incredibly brave or foolish and cocky." Agil adds: "Spencer, you sound like you're content with your hatred and unafraid of any consequences. We will give you one chance. It's obvious that you aren't willing to listen to us. Leave, the likes of you aren't welcome here." Phineas, as the main host of Chez Platypus and the rest of the new Cheesetopia speaks up: "That's correct. You aren't welcome here as long as you have that much hatred inside of you." Spencer glares at him: "Shut up! Shut up! I'm awake! That means I'm right unlike you woke freaks! And I'm not alone in being awake!" Many members of the general public stand up and shout: "We're awake too and are disgusted by seeing freaks with wrong skin colors too! Blacks are evil creatures who-" I interrupt: "What is this?! A almost 'your bar is a Nazi bar' situation? Where the hell did you all come from?" That's when a bottle is thrown even though this restaurant doesn't even have a bar. That is followed by hot food being thrown at Barla, Eva, and others with dark skin. (Which of course is an absurd and incorrect reason to harshly judge someone's character) It gets worse: a bunch of white police officers come from out of nowhere with all kinds of weapons. Deidara laughs: "These fools don't get it!"
Barla sighs: "They're completely consumed by hatred. It is making them overconfident. This is one hell of a chaotic hangout." I remark: "And for once, the chaos isn't funny. It's just sad, dark, and depressing. Some of us are still eating right now even. The truth of the matter is that it's difficult to portray racism as the absurd thing it is because it has severe and horrific ramifications due to its persistence as a huge problem. In my world, in the nation I was born in, it is a key integral part of society which is dominated and built upon white supremacy and other cruel belief systems. Racism has held back social and technological progress for centuries at this point. This chaos goes to show that not all chaotic hangouts are hilarious. Which is honestly pretty obvious especially to people who have been in arguments at social events. These people.. I can't help but feel pity for them for a number of reasons. They don't stand a chance against us. They are blinded by hatred to the point they're like parodies of your typical angry person. Their racist hatred stems from made up nonsense designed to uphold capitalism and white supremacy. It hasn't even been 100 years since black people in America lived under laws that tried to keep them in a social status not far up from the rock bottom of slavery." Case in point, a bunch of the coppers and general public try to take down Barla but she easily sidesteps them before knocking all of them to the ground effortlessly. Barla smirks: "That's what they get. And don't worry, I see the others coming for me and you as well, Swift."
"Damn. There's a whole mob of these people. They want blood. I guess Spencer agitated all of them into violent action that benefits white supremacist states such as the United States." We easily dispatch more and more of them together. However, Yuya Sakaki suddenly summons a bunch of his Performapals and activates Smile World: "Ladies and gentlemen, both and neither! There's no need to fight and I'll show you that by putting on a show you'll never forget!" Barla and I nod to each other, activating our duel disks and joining in because Yuya's idea might just work. And that's important because we're all still exhausted from the battle we just finished earlier in the day. Most of us dislike fighting when it is necessary and that only adds to the importance of Yuya's idea. Reiji Akaba shouts: "It is time to change tactics completely! I set the Pendulum scale with D/D Savant Galile and D/D Savant Nikolai!" "I create the ultimate circuit!" "Now then. I will begin creating my ultimate composition of creativity and entertaining horror by setting the Pendulum scale!" "Using Goblinberg's ability, I now summon Ganbara Knight!" "I summon the Synchron tuner Formula Synchron!" "The master of faster will not be outdone this time! I double tune Red Demon Dragon!" "This will not be a nap causation! Witness the power of the many particles, stars, and more surrounding us!" A couple minutes later, all of us duelists are working together to put on a show as we duel each other in one hell of a battle royal. But when it ends with a deciding finisher, we look around to see that our foes are even angrier than before. Yuya exclaims: "Oh no! It didn't work!"
Argo frowns: "I was afraid of this." Kirito exclaims: "How much hatred do they harbor?! What you all did should have been enough to calm them down!" Yui sighs: "Daddy, I detect the highest naturally possible amount of human rage inside of all of them.." Eva staggers: "Highest possible amount? That's completely unbelievable!" "What a nap causation- Nevermind, it's the opposite! The highest amount possible means their heart rates are really high. But that's not all, all rational decision making on their part is currently impossible! All they want is violence, blood, and destruction. Their rage is so intense that they have become fearless." Tsunade shouts: "There's now too many of them for us to handle!" K.K. Slider speaks: "Because dueltaining did not work, maybe resuming my performance will." Blathers sweats: "That won't be enough! Look at them! They're far more terrifying than even insects!" I sigh: "They don't appear to be under the control of any magic or dark presence either. The hatred they're displaying is off the charts and appears to be homegrown from capitalist white supremacist society. This is not funny. Racism is never very funny. If we weren't as strong as we were, this mob would have crushed us several minutes ago. In my world for example, this kind of mob could never be easily overcome by a non military force, especially not paying customers at a restaurant. We have the strength to fight racism head on but not all individuals who are fighting it across the multiverse do as well." Carlos starts chuckling mischievously for some reason. "Carlos, why are you chuckling? What kind of plan do you have this time?"
"Let's prank them all! We can handle pranking them all! After all, fighting them isn't working out well for us!" "While I would rather stop them through the wonderful method called killing with kindness, I don't see how that strategy could work here. There's an unnaturally massive size to this mob like they came from all over this world through one or several methods of transportation. Mischief might work. The issue with killing with kindness is that when an opponent is angry or evil enough, it doesn't work on them. Normally, it would be enough to get someone to stagger and be caught off guard. But as we've seen throughout the multiverse, many opponents just laugh or get angry due to it. We are trying to bring them all down by knocking them to the ground and unconscious but right now, they're still swarming us anyway. It's like trying to escape the wasps in Animal Crossing. They're the wasps and we're the player who knocked down a wasp nest. Unless we have the right thing to stop this, we're going to experience the equivalent in the analogy to being attacked on all sides and stung badly as a result. But still, we should try killing with kindness using someone loud enough to perform that method of peaceful communication in the midst of all of this chaos." Present Mic shouts: "I got this! Yeeeah!" He uses his quirk to shout loud enough to try to communicate using language built through the killing with kindness method. But that only earns his animosity from the other side and many of them start going for them. Aqua shouts: "Kazuma! Start using Steal already!"
"Fine! But you better find something useful to do in this situation for once!" "Damn it Kermit! You really think I can perform a prank?! I'm the perfect life form, I have no time nor skill for pulling ridiculous pranks in the middle of whatever you want to call this situation!" "Well Cell, I think you can do it anyway." I create a giant silly string spray can after putting my sword back in its scabbard. Meanwhile, chaos and confusion begins to happen in the midst of our foes. For instance, some are shouting things like: "Hey, who took my gun?!" Typically, it would be unlikely or impossible for mischief to work against a mob of people brought together by a racist scumbag spouting racist nonsense. But we are BRAINS members and some of us have been known to cause a little or a lot of mischief. With my giant can of silly string, I rush into the mob and start mercilessly spraying as many people as possible with silly string. The giant fan is literally bigger than me but I still wield it effortlessly anyway. The silly string that comes out of its is big, sticky, and thick. Before long, much of the mob is trapped as a result of my using every single bit of its contents on them. Silly string typically isn't that sticky but because it's huge this time around, that means it's pretty sticky and hard to get off even from skin. Usually, silly string is just a pain to get out of the hair. Not this time though. Not this time. Several minutes later, we are still taking down the mob but with mischief and mayhem instead. No violence, just pranks and other things. Inside Chez Platypus, we have stopped the mob inside so we have begun fanning out outside of it to end all of this nonsense.
I create and use more giant cans of silly string along the way while intentionally singing nonsense loudly off key. 20 minutes after that, it's over and we have surrounded Spencer. What we just did is not a good idea to replicate in our world, dear readers. At least not to the same scale. Spencer is shocked: "How is this possible?! You stopped them! We were so close to ending all of you and putting an end to your race betraying, racial impurity, and so on!" Pegasus chuckles: "My oh my, you still don't get it." "What is that supposed to mean?!" Eva continues: "You need to cope. It's obvious. You can't stop us even with all of the racist hatred you harbor." I add: "There are several ways we can go from here because there are various ways to handle racist people like you. We can just return you to sender after booting you from here. But the fact that you rallied a mob of people who largely kept shouting racist things, a fact that only truly dawned on me just now shows that that won't be enough. We can kill you but we hate bloodshed and avoid it when we can. We can humiliate you but what good would that even do? Humiliation in theory is very effective. It causes someone to become flustered and feel embarrassed not to mention causing them to just struggle to come up with a response to being humiliated. Mockery caused by humiliation usually only lasts up to a few weeks or months at most. In a society like this one, humiliation doesn't have much impact at the end of the day. We can also reform you but it appears that may not work out. If true, all that's left is to punish you. I will not be involved in what happens next to you though. Barla and others like her deserve to lead the charge on how you and your friends should be dealt with."
In time, the situation is fully resolved and we get back to having fun at Chez Platypus where nothing else chaotic happened after that. It is quite difficult to write something comedic regarding racism for someone like me so I didn't go fully into detail for all of this as what happened is also hard to put into words exactly. Racism is a serious problem. That being said, there was a funnier chaotic hangout involving racism not long before the 70th Floor in the Infinityverse so let's go back in time to that. It was during the preparation phase of things after clearing the 69th Floor Boss. I was with Kirito, Sinon, Pito, and others as we found themselves doing a strange quest that was clearly for April Fools. We were joined by a couple other parties of various individuals including a few ALA members. One of whom ended up quickly becoming a problem. The strange quest was to find someone's missing face. Like something straight out of Miitopia. Let's go straight to soon after we accepted the quest and began searching together. Kirito speaks: "Something is different about this area.." Said problematic ALA member who would end up being banished from the ALA and Assault Team later on after the quest ended in failure replies: "You're right. There's weirdos and freaks with skin colors that aren't white. That's what's different about this area." Lisbeth exclaims: "I know you aren't talking about the monsters on this floor. What's wrong with the fact that some of us have different skin colors that aren't very common in Japan?!" "It should be so clear to you! *points at Zenblock* Look at that weirdo! *points at Eva* She's black! That means she's lazy and a thief and moocher!"
I speak up: "Don't be ridiculous. That's a load of nonsense." Pito laughs: "Sounds like someone cares way too much about skin color!" (The difficulty in writing comedic stuff with racism being spouted in it for me is that I'm so serious about racism and just about any bigotry for that matter that I struggle to make light of how ridiculous it is while focusing on how serious and dangerous it is. It's hard to balance humor with seriousness. I only feel really comfortable in making fun verbally of transphobia because I am non binary when in reality, all bigotries are kind of silly. Add to the fact I rarely have to deal with racism because I'm white and.. presto. And yes, bigotries often lead to tense situations. Let's not forget that.) "Skin color is important! It tell us who to trust and who to not trust! I'm surprised the blacks haven't caused any floor boss fights to end in failure!" That gets the full attention of all of us. Sinon speaks: "What kind of nonsense is that?" Their fellow ALA members look at them with funny looks too. Honestly, all of us either glare at them or give them a funny look. I speak again: "And who allowed you to become a clearer and ALA member?" "Stop looking at me! I am right! Race is the most important-" One of their comrades slaps them in the face. "Hey! What was that for?!" "Being racist!" "So what?! I'm proud to be racist because it means I know how important race is! Asians are suspicious, blacks are criminals! Aliens with bright colors are abominations who must be destroyed!" Silica looks uncomfortable: "I don't like how this is going.." Pina comforts her. "Chirrrrrrrrp."
Argo suddenly says: "I have a Record Crystal activated. It will be sent away later to be shared with the Assault Team and ALA as a whole." "What?!" Suddenly, the racist ALA member comes at Argo and manages to somehow break the Record Crystal before running off: "If you won't accept the racist truth of how skin colors work, then I have no choice but to teach you by ruining our quest!" Kirito is flabbergasted: "How did they go from racism to deciding to sabotage the quest in order to 'teach' us a lesson?" Eva replies: "No time for that! We have to stop them because who knows what will happen if they go much further with how strange the quest is!" We soon find them struggling against some of Miitopia's Twerky monsters. In many ways, they were a lot like Spencer in belief and absurd racist statements. While fighting the Twerky monsters that shouldn't even be here, they yell: "Look at your skin! The skin color of you weird monsters means something I'm not even sure of!" I sweat drop: "This is not how racism normally manifests in my world. Not at all." We finish off the Twerkys. We aren't going to let even someone like this person die on our watch because they pose no real threat to us at the moment. Instead of thanking us, they say: "Wow, I must be lucky! We have the good black people in our group! That's the only reason things didn't just go horribly just now! But no matter! I'm going to find a way to derail this quest and you can't stop me!"
Some of us simply restrain them before dragging them along as we continued forward in an attempt to finish the quest. We don't have the time to even send them away to be dropped off somewhere where they'll end up getting their "just desserts". After all, the quest apparently has a time limit and the clock is seriously counting down. "Let me GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The Gor/Go replies: "Not happening, porkchop. But if you want to go a round with my Goukis, let me know so I can mash you to the ground with them." Asuna sighs. A lot of us do too. We end up running into all kinds of random things as we keep looking for the missing face. And of course, those random things practically are coming straight from Miitopia. The racist ALA member wouldn't shut up that entire time. Things just keep being that way until Kirito encounters a bush. He speaks after hearing some shaking coming from within it: "Monster possibly incoming from this bush! I'll get the jump on them first!" Asuna yells: "Don't do it, Kirito! Don't be a nimrod! It has to be a trap, even more so than you think!" "Don't worry, Asuna. It's going to be fine. Look, I'll even destroy the bush!" He uses a sword skill to do just that, revealing the missing face in the process. The ALA member suddenly gets free and laughs while killing the face: "Hahaha! The quest is over! You fail now! You should have never come here with people with skin colors that are just sinful and wrong by definition!" A screen notification appears in front of us, it reads: "Quest failed." Llenn goes at the jerk: "Give me your gear! You won't need it anymore after all of that!"
They smirk and remove a portion of the armor they wear as a ALA member before rolling up a sleeve as well. All in order to reveal a Laughing Coffin tattoo. M speaks: "Of course a racist player would turn out to be a survivor of Laughing Coffin who managed to remain undetected until now." "Hahaha! That's right! I'm a racist and a Laughing Coffin survivor! I am perfection!" They easily dodge Llenn only for Argo to speak up: "Hey Ki-boy, Asu, everyone. Ya gotta hear this. According to the information on our now enemy, they are extremely sensitive to insults and criticism and the reason why they ended up being in our group for this quest was to try to help them overcome those flaws with our guidance. I was going to share this earlier but when they started speaking nonsense, I ended up forgetting all about doing that as a result. And now, here we are in whatever you want to call this." Orochimaru chuckles: "Did you say what I think you said? In that case, allow me to begin. You ALA member are so foolish that I will never bother remembering who you are. Your choice of words is quite pitiful and repetitive and forgettable for someone like myself." Llenn adds: "What kind of doofus goes on believing that skin color has any importance other than the fact that it is diverse among us humans and therefore must be respected and not be used to treat someone unfairly?!" Pito laughs: "Racists are so ridiculous! Can you imagine wasting so much time and energy hating people just for the color of their skin?! I could laugh about it all day!" Eva adds: "What's more is that some racists are so pathetic in part as a result of racism to some extent!"
The ALA member has been ranting and saying wild things more and more as time has passed. Now, they have begun making monkey noises at Olivia(Minecraft Story Mode) who is among the minority of clearers who are black in the Assault Team. Olivia is off put by this but due to her intellect and somewhat humorous nature not to mention confidence, she speaks: "And what do you think you're doing: trying to paint me like a goofy monkey? Everyone, just look at whatever this is. Can you imagine being so hateful as to treat fellow sentient organisms on the level we are like this?!" She begins mocking them in her own way. They are shocked: "What?! Impossible!" Olivia gets serious again: "I'm proving a few points here like how ridiculous what you're trying to do is. That's not to say that what you're doing isn't a problem of course. It is a big and serious problem." I add: "It's like the designed absurdity of bigotries is intended to make people not take them seriously at all." Suddenly, some annoying advertisement starts playing all around us and of course, it just has to feature something known as blackface, popularized in the US by the figure Jim Crow created by having a white person be made to look black and behave in certain ways in order to depict black people in a way to encourage and excuse racism including racist laws such as those of segregation like the "separate but equal" idea upheld by the US Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case. That's where the Jim Crow laws get their collective nickname from. The racist ALA member points and laughs as the ad lifts them out of their shock: "Look at this! Yes! Now you see how inferior blacks are! This proves it!"
Olivia shakes her head: "No, it doesn't. Look closely at these people. You can see the blackface messy and/or missing in some areas right now." Eventually, we managed to get the racist booted as I stated before and once that was done, that was that but not before we had a Assault Team meeting about racism because the dehumanizing of someone for the color of their skin is never okay. Racism cannot be excused. Some racism is covert and polite but it's still bad nevertheless. This Chaotic Hangouts chapter has been difficult to write but I'm doing it and I'm doing it basically the best I can. I literally just heard of a very recent instance in which black people were mocked in our world with monkey noises. That bastard Frieza would love every bit of it. Since I'm running out of things to write in the manner of chaotic hangouts, I will use the rest of the chapter to talk more about racism because in case you haven't noticed, white people in the US like me aren't generally doing much against racism or even speaking out against it anywhere. It's black people themselves who are doing most of the posting on various parts of racism or so it seems. In the mentioned The Sociology Book, racism is covered a bit including about how absurd of an idea race is. After all, someone's skin color is dependent on largely their parents skin color and so, it can visibly display their ancestry. Someone with pale skin usually is descended from people in places such as Scandinavia for example while those with dark skin are descended from people from areas close to if not on the equator where the most sunlight hits of anywhere on Earth.
It's where the climate is warmest especially with accelerating climate change moving at a baffling pace even to scientists. Skin color aka pigment is tied to melanin as well. Capitalism and European imperialism are 2 of the main origins of racism. Because of the color of someone's skin in the US especially, we can guess how they will largely be treated in society. When someone is black, they have to work harder just to prove themselves worthy of respect and to not have to endure being insulted by mostly white people for the color of their skin. The truth of the matter is that even now, racism means black people are treated like criminals, white people are seen as always trustworthy and precious, indigenous people are ignored, and more. Anti-black racism appears to be the loudest racism in the US. In the land of the free and home of the brave, most black people have a harder time finding jobs and a higher likelihood of being thrown in prison, living in poverty, and more. Sociology acknowledges the classification of ethnicity but it's treated as separated from race in the study of human social behavior. Due to sociology's nature, it's good to look into sociology if you give a damn about the existence of racism. Oh and history too. Racism is baked into American society and that is reflected across other nations as well such as Canada and the UK. Just the concept of hating someone for the color of their skin is ridiculous. It serves a function in dividing people with labels and things that don't actually matter in order to maintain the status quo and keep people distracted.
Saying black people are lazy is just deranged. Think about it. There's tens of millions of African Americans. It's impossible for such a large group of people to all be lazy. I think even racists know they aren't all lazy. It's a generalization and exaggeration. Because of that, it is never said in good faith and is meant to invoke a response through the use of rhetorical techniques. It is not something that should ever be excused. And if someone says that saying the black people are lazy is not okay, they need to be listened to, not yelled at. It doesn't matter if a cherished family member says it. There is no excuse for it. It needs to be discussed because it implies that the speaker of it has racism baked into their very consciousness. That means a lot of things can happen. And it's not just arguments. It could also include ending up leading to saying weak statements like "oh so you're a good one of those" and blatant racist violence. The racist violence that has caused black people to be shot and killed by police unjustly. Dear readers, please look deeply into yourselves to evaluate if you treat anyone differently for any reason such as the color of their skin. There's almost countless forms of bigotry out there. It isn't just anti-black racism. It's all forms of racism and far beyond that. Anti-black racism gets the most attention and focus, leading to other forms of racism to be ignored. That being said, anti-Jewish hatred is a form of racism too because Jews have been considered a different race altogether. That helped fuel the Holocaust in Europe. And it only continues to this day but not because people are protesting the Gaza genocide.
And let me make it clear that the claim that black people are criminals as a sweeping generalization is also false. It ignores one of the primary reasons crime occurs. Survival. Because of homelessness and poverty caused by racism, black people struggle more to find jobs as I said before. Without a home, how can you look nice and presentable at a job interview? Looking nice and presentable for a job interview is bullcrap and I will gladly die on that hill. Skill not appearance matters most for getting the job done even if the skills is as basic as sweeping the floor. Because black people have a harder time finding jobs much less getting decent pay and treatment, can you really expect them all to be able to avoid having to steal food? Capitalist society is structured on nonsense like social Darwinism as it's called as well as money and countless workers especially in the US ain't making enough to live happy and healthy loves. That leaves black people in a bad spot along with the racist hatred and its countless manifestations from apathy and being ignored to being murdered by police or fascist mobs in broad daylight. As a result, many have to turn to stealing food to survive and/or squatting because not only will jobs not take them and/or pay them enough but the governments couldn't care less if they lived or died. In countless other worlds, racism also sometimes plays a clearly bad part in how things play out in fictional media, that really isn't emphasized enough.
Even something like having an all white cast can be a sign of racism because there is an overrepresentation of even white people in media. Other "races" besides Asians(because of anime, manga, manwa, etc though they don't get enough representation in American media it seems) don't get nearly enough screen time. An all white cast excludes huge portions of the potential audience for any given media. It may not usually be the kind of racism where someone throws hot food at a black people for the color of their skin(never mind the fact that that's a huge waste of perfectly fresh food and money) but it's still racism but more quiet and covert. Covert racism is sneaky. It lets people get away with being racist without committing violence. This Chaotic Hangouts chapter attempted to focus on the more absurd aspects of racism. That didn't entirely go to plan. But still, it really goes to show that racism can be horrific in a way that is just comically evil and ridiculous. Society needs to discard nonsense like racism and the sheer absurdity called race as a category used to divide people into more labels. Race in people has no natural standing or application. We all bleed red. We are all star stuff from supernovae and more. Saying someone is bad for the color of their skin is as silly and nonsensical as saying someone is bad for the color, length, or style of their hair. Skin color is a physical feature of someone's phenotype, not a defining characteristic of who they are or what they've done. But because racism is a thing, things like black people embracing who they are as black people have become important. It mirrors why queer pride has become important.
The truth is that our world isn't black and white. One's skin color says very little if anything at all of who they are but because it is a cause for one's marginalization or privilege in the case of mostly white people, it has also become important for black people, indigenous people, and more to have to stand up for themselves. And many white people need to stop sitting on their butts and try to actually stand up and do something too. The BRAINS Collective is a very diverse collective. We have no tolerance for racism. We prefer to talk things over with those who spout racist viewpoints amongst our members but that's not always possible because just like in the world I share with you readers, some individuals are just racist to the point that simply talking things out won't alone change them. Olivia and Barla are just 2 of many BRAINS members who are black. And their general group will only grow as time goes on as it always should. At the end of the day, black people along with indigenous people, Hispanics, Arabs, and so forth are not below white people. Many white people need to get off their high horses because they are not better than those who aren't white. I focused on anti-black racism throughout this chapter most because it is the form of racism I'm most aware of and again, it appears to be the loudest form of racism. When I make a friend, I don't care about the color of their skin. Why would I? That doesn't define them.
In our universe alone, there's so many questions. As millions waste time and energy hating other people for the color of their skin while sabotaging their own happiness and well being in the process, there are so many far more important things going on than what someone's skin color is. Climate change, the search for a theory to unite classical physics and quantum mechanics(the most promising theory so far being String Theory), the search for alien life and habitable planets like Earth, historical events happening who knows how many times a year, the Covid pandemic(and the continuing disabling of millions through Long Covid), global rise in fascism, millions of dollars being donated to charity by furries alone, development of nasal vaccines for Covid, the launching of spacecraft, astronauts being sent every so often to the International Space Station which is a monument of international cooperation, millions of artworks and stories being published or worked on daily, the development of future additions to theme parks worldwide(hopefully currently including plans to finally fix the American Disney Parks' Tomorrowlands and the replacement for Kings Island's Vortex roller coaster which operated from 1987-2019), the collision of particles at the Large Hadron Collider, Historical European Martial Arts matches, experiments involving anti-matter, attempts to figure out dark matter and dark energy, discussions on Schrödinger's cat, and more. My stories are designed to do 2 things: entertain and inform. At first, I just wanted to write for fun but as time went on, I began wanting to talk about societal issues through my stories.
And that's what I've been doing. We keep dreaming of a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of every day and yet, social progress is slow and resistance to it is getting higher and higher. Right now, we are being propelled more towards Fallout, Parable Of The Sower by Octavia Butler, Brave New World, V For Vendetta, and 1984 as opposed to Tomorrowland, Star Wars, Star Trek, Yugioh Zexal, the future depicted towards the end of Death Note's second opening theme, Sailor Moon's Crystal Tokyo, Back To The Future's 2015, and Miitopia after its storyline ends. "Here we are in the future and it's bright." Thank you for reading this chapter. And remember, there's always hope.