Am I A Racist

Sadly my answer is YES!!! I’m an advocate for the HUMAN race. I hear all this crying, moaning, and groaning over POOR ME, I’M NOT WHITE SO THE WORLD IS NOT FAIR TO ME. Get real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean the world does not stop because someone was treated unfairly, LIFE is unfair. I was once told by a wise young man that claims he will be the first black gay President and with his heart I believe he just might. He told me, “It’s a game, learn the rules or get off the field.” How true is that huh?
Life is unfair, but nothing WORTH having ever comes easy. If you want it, FIGHT for it and be prepared to fight an uphill battle cause that is what it will be. You have to learn how to play the game or the game will eat you up and spit you out. The world is not equal, although most of us want it that way. So if you want things to change start with yourself.
Here is my start. When I started writing it is clear that my real name reveals I am of Latin decent, a Mexican if you will. No one wanted to read my work. I want my work read so I bent the rules by changing my name, which everyone knows me as, MAX M. POWER. Soon my work was being read. I was getting noticed.
I went to see a local publisher here in Houston and I was told that my work was really good but he would NEVER publish it under a white name. Now correct me if I’m wrong but the point of printing books is to SELL books and if people like the material and are willing to buy it then where is the problem? Oh right, my name. That is the truest form of racism.
Did I cry about it??? I know some of you would like to think I did, but instead I was true to my racist nature and got even. I started my own self publishing company, WRITING WITH POWER, and I print my own little projects, which many of you have heard me read from if you seen my interview with the lovely and talented Andrea Watkins, FOX 26 News, Houston, Texas. I fought to get my work out there and it has paid off.
Now I have one book published, Trails of Life, that I did not print myself, another collection of short stories, The Story Teller, on the way, and many more novels to come. I have two booklets, Lost Inside & Random Thoughts, that is free of charge to anyone who wants a copy. I am going to start on a screen play based on one of my short stories, Confessions Of The Hit Man. Everyone who has read it thinks it would make a great movie. I could have cried and boo hooed my way around life but instead I fought. So yea, I’m a racist, but deep down inside, aren’t we all, just a little bit. It’s okay to admit it, its human nature, it’s in our blood. The TRUE difference though, is how we ACT on it.

Max M. Power