What I don't understand about racism.

To be completely frank, to me racism isn't a real thing. It's a word. It's a word that we need to eliminate all together.

My thoughts on society are probably not good thoughts. It disappoints me to see that in 2017 there's some jackasses out there still fueling a race war. And for what? Who is this going to benefit? What's does it actually matter what color your skin is at this point? I remember when I was in maybe 5th or 6th grade, we began to learn about slavery and racial segregation. We spent months going over how horribly slaves were treated by the persons who owned them. We learned about all of the terrible things that the black people went through back before my generation was even a scratch in our dads pants. We were eventually tested on the subjects we learned about and we then moved on to the next awful thing that happened in history. We put that information into the hands of our teachers to disperse to our children. Because children really have a solid understanding of the world, they understand the hurt and the pain and the gravity of the situation. (That's a joke)
In my humble opinion we shouldn't be teaching middle schoolers about segregation. We shouldn't be teaching them about the holocaust, and we shouldn't be teaching them about the 9/11 incidents. At that age children should be learning about saving money, where to put their commas in a sentence, they should learn that men and women are equal and to treat everyone with the utmost respect, hell start teaching them a new language even! A child's mind shouldn't be filled with stories of hatred and hardships. Save those lessons for the last two years of high school or something.

I get onto facebook and I see many of my friends that I went to school with posting just straight up stupid memes fueled by the racial tension around us and it kills me on the inside. Uneducated is what it all is. But what were we ever educated on? That blacks were treated unfairly? Because that's the bottom line I remember learning in school.

What is racial tension even? You don't like black people because of what? Because some of them live in the ghetto and you find yourself scared of poverty? Especially when poverty is worn on black skin? You don't like Muslims? Why not? Because they're all terrorists and none of them eat bacon? What about Mexicans. We don't like Mexicans because they enter our country illegally?

Who actually gives a fuck about any of that? Why are we all blinded by this?

We're too busy working every day of our lives. Working a job that doesn't pay enough to live. Why isn't anybody coming together to riot about that? Who here goes to a job that they hate, to please people that don't matter to them, just to come home and not have enough money to buy groceries for dinner?
Why is it cheaper to eat at a fast food restaurant than it is to go and buy your own groceries and cook yourself a healthy dinner? I know for a fact no matter what race you are, chances are, you've ran into this problem.

I get tired of hearing about people who think they're all the same, coming together to stand up against another group of people who are different.
I wish for once we could come together and stand up against something that is holding us all back, instead of standing up against other human beings. Other human beings that are so much more than the color of their skin.

And human beings are just that. We're all the fucking same, some of us just look different.

What do you guys think? Where do you think the racial tension comes from? What kind of steps could be taken to prevent things like this from happening. Lets talk about it.