For a creature that’s known for their fashion choices of wearing a white sheet, you’d think there would be more racist ghosts.
They come from a time when it was socially acceptable to be openly racist. Plus, if you go back about 1000 years or so, it was socially acceptable to just murder entire villages because your people didn’t like their people.
But anytime you see a ghost, it’s always like “oooOOOooooOOOO!! I HAVE UNFINISHED BUSINESS ON EARTH!!!”
Like, seriously??? Why would a ghost give a fuck if his finances weren’t paid before they died?
And, can we talk about ghostbusters for a second? That one judge was like “Oooh, those are the famous criminals that were brothers! I sent them to death row”
But meanwhile they look NOTHING like humans. But somehow he instantly recognizes them. Are we led to believe they looked like ghoulish monsters when they were alive?
And the librarian looks like a human corpse. So, still human, but, like, after her body has been dead a few weeks. Are we to believe she died, and then her spirit stayed inside her rotting corpse of a body and THEN became a ghost, and retained it’s final form?
Either way…never seen a racist ghost. Which I think has to be statistically impossible.
They are not corporeal so why would they care what your body looks like? To them it is just some envelope holding you, right? Your soul I don’t think would have race, or sex, those are embodied things, skin tone being the most superficial of all.
Mostly because when you’re writing a fictional story, you need to remove everything that isn’t necessary for the plot. Is your story about racism? Then your ghost being racist makes sense. Otherwise unless it’s a gag it slows down the plot.
If we wanna get REALLY picky though…
Most ghosts probably aren’t speaking modern English either. A LOT changes in 200 years, how much slang rose and fell in that time? How much did accents change?
The concept of time was massively different too. Keep in mind before trains visiting a state could be weeks not hours. Could explain why ghosts are so patient though.
There’s also just vast differences in priorities, imagine a life where water is a constant mental calculation like your battery life on a phone. If they’re old enough that was the norm.
It is pretty racist, why do they always refuse black sheets 🙄
I like to think they observe and change with the times. Kind of grow in death.
Imagine being a confederate soldier, and then watching the assasination of MLKjr. Seeing everything change over the coarse of 200 years. Remembering that the confederacy only lasted for 4 years.
Then imagine seeing people in OHIO with a confederate flag. C’mon Ohio. You’re not the south. You share a border with Canada. You weren’t part of this. Why are you choosing to be trash?
Also most racism is really a class issue. As in the upper class control and steal from the lower class and blame the other for the hardship the upper class caused. When your no longer havsa body or comporeal needs. All that stuff goes away.
The ones that would stick around would likely be very racist. Consider that you don’t even need to stay in earth, you can just travel the universe. Or just travel the world. You don’t have gravity to help you, but passing thru solid matter isn’t a problem either. You could check out the core, Iceland, Botswana, Jordan, Kentucky, whatever. So if they stay in Kentucky, they’re gonna be super racist. But evidently not…
I think the joke of the ghost costume as a white sheet has been lost.
