Blog Post 19

In the book Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, racism is a common theme discussed in the novel. Now that my class and I are close to ending of the novel, the pure hate that ringed throughout the first half of novel has begun to change to understanding the reasons behind of racism,  and why humans have created and continue hate each-other races'. Even though there is obvious reasons for why Tayo should hate the white man,  the race that took his culture, his home, his life, and in the end took his very reasons to live, Tayo has begun to see a new light. He sees that Whites are just humans as well, and there is more to racism then just hate. Humans have created racism and hate because they are afraid. Humans have been lying to themselves for centuries about other races because they are so afraid and don't know how to get rid of the fear, so humans have continue to think that the path they are taking must be true, the path of hating what they fear. If humans continue to think this way, there will always be hate, and we need to learn to stop lying to ourselves and others about what we are doing and what others are doing really and see what we all truly, humans.

"The Lie. He cut into the wire as if cutting away the lie inside himself. The liars had fooled everyone, white people and Indians alike; as long as people believed the lies, they would never be able to see what had been done to them or what they were doing to each other." (Silko 177)