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| Tamara Mowry-Housley on Oprah's "Where are they now" show |
“Will America Ever Rise?...”
"The Soul of a sister in pain can only be shared by the twin of that sister. How painful would it be, to share the pain of your twin when it is racially focused not just on you, but on the people you love in your life?"
By Glenn Peppers January 13, 2014
We know them as Tia and Tamara from the 90‘s television show, “Sister Sister!” Well in their real life/grownup world, they are 35 year old women with lives, marriages, children and careers! They have also in recent months been stars of their own reality TV show about theirs lives in general! Both have still maintained their sunny cute girl next door humor, and that laugh! Oh those two can make me laugh by just hearing them do so!
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| Tamara and husband Adam Housley |
Well, as life progresses and carried on. The two sisters married; and married two completely different people. Tamara married a white man, and Tia married an up and coming actor in Hollywood, who happens to be black. Since marrying a white man, Tamara has received so much flack, and negative feedback that it has become painful, and even disturbing to both Tamara and her sister Tia!
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| Tia and husband Cory Hardrict |
The bullying seemingly doesn’t stop there apparently. Fans have issued out insults and foolish comments to Tia as well, stated that she married correctly, because she married a black man, and vice-a-versa! Yet it is Tamara who is catching the brunt of most all the racism, and negative furor from a public that I can imagine adored them both as they came along, and grew up on television in the 1990’s!
I also can imagine these bi-racial identical twins have gone through the interracial identity crisis wringer, and the whole, “Where do I fit it in this world?” syndrome most all their lives; and now this! It was announced at the outset of January 2014 that they would in fact be ending their reality show in order to raise their children, privately (among other reasons I’m sure) away from the media, and the public! In my brief experience at being a step-parent, I can understand their protective concern! Believe me, as a parent that’s all you want to do is protect your kids, even if they are all grown up!
See the interview clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UESwbjUqBHI
I saw a clip of the interview that the twins did on a segment of Oprah’s “Where are they Now,” where this discussion came up. Tamara as well as Tia were in tears taking about their experiences with people’s hatred laden comments and remarks about their mates, and their choices in marriage! Some situations of which Tia shockingly appeared to not have any idea her sister was suffering with, sparking even more tears!
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| Tia and Tamara in their Sister Sister days |
It is no wonder why America is no longer considered a country the world looks up to anymore! It took electing an African American President to drudge up out of America its true feelings on people of color, and push the racial mindset over the edge. This on going childish blind hatred of not just our President, plus other countless mean spirited attacks, and acts of devaluing the lives of black children to the point of taking their lives, and letting their murderers go free is madness! This is equally about as insane as acts all the other brutal acts of aggression shone to other folks of color in America! This radical up-shift in racial intimidation, bullying, and various other volatile acts is more clearly peeling away, and revealing a nation built on hate, fear, ignorance, control, and violence that is now running rampant!
It seems America had the entire world fooled for decades about how noble, and excepting we were to all peoples!... That is of course until a black man was elected to sit in the office chair within the Oval Office of the White House. When the reality of it actually hit. All of a sudden, True Colors emerged and began to show, all over this nation! What millions kept quietly locked inside themselves for what seemed like a lifetime is now spewing out like tainted water from a toxic drain! America is failing its Life-Lesson that God offers all of humanity in Diversity and Tolerance; and so far it seems, a good many of us are failing at this lesson, miserably!
I can only imagine folks in other lands are looking and listening at the goings on over here; yet they see it from outside the forest, as we sit oblivious among the trees in a constant hail storm of insults, snide remarks, discrimination, red lining, and acts of out right violence, and constant verbal attacks. Yet we want the world to respect this country! I can also imagine folks around the world saying, "If you'd do this to your own countryman, how will you in turn treat us if given the chance?"
I don't blame Tia and Tamera for ending their reality show really. Maybe raising their children outside the scope of Hollyweird's intrusive eyes of the paparazzi, and nutty fans, who I can imagine just a few short years ago were Tia and Tamara's biggest fans is the best thing!
On a broader scale; the Hate Mindset is something that is definitely not going to sustain this country! It will if not anything else be responsible for dividing it, and taking away its unique core value, and worth! The kind of racism and hatred I see today will eventually erode and chip away at the heart of the America that once had hope. The America that I grew up with set the world on fire with its melting pot of wonderful creativity, and bigger than life personalities! America has always been about People!
Through all the craziness of the 1960’s and 70’s, on through the 1980's, we all still wanted the same things. A good life! Red yellow, black, white and brown! We all worked! We all did a good thing here in America! It was our differences that made us who we are, and it was all cool! To use a 60’s phrase... “There was togetherness!” I don’t see that togetherness anymore among peoples, anywhere!
On a broader scale; the Hate Mindset is something that is definitely not going to sustain this country! It will if not anything else be responsible for dividing it, and taking away its unique core value, and worth! The kind of racism and hatred I see today will eventually erode and chip away at the heart of the America that once had hope. The America that I grew up with set the world on fire with its melting pot of wonderful creativity, and bigger than life personalities! America has always been about People!
Through all the craziness of the 1960’s and 70’s, on through the 1980's, we all still wanted the same things. A good life! Red yellow, black, white and brown! We all worked! We all did a good thing here in America! It was our differences that made us who we are, and it was all cool! To use a 60’s phrase... “There was togetherness!” I don’t see that togetherness anymore among peoples, anywhere!
There was a time Americans from every corner of this nation felt that they could at least seek freedom, and make good in this land. Everyone contributed! Back in the day, despite our differences, I remember a time when we all did a good days work, making and producing goods the world marveled at. Our innovations and inventions blossomed and sprang forth from every culture, right here in America! America’s best sell was that it represented hope... to all!
So that's it? It is 2014, and this is what we’ve been reduced to? Has this country gotten so turned around and twisted that we are now going to let the Small Minded ruin everything that made this land great, despite its former hardships and racist past? Its a shame that this America that I’ve loved since childhood (after all we’ve been through) cannot seem to rise above the infantile and simpleminded, even in this modern age!
Glenn Peppers
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