what do you think about racism today?
403764
IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY.
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I think that we are all racists - but some more than others. The main thing is to be aware of it, and try to work with it.\n\nI think the real problem humans have is with difference, because then we start making comparisons, and that's uncomfortable. Racism is another form of difference.\n\nAs a white european woman living in London, I try not to be racist, but I am aware of racist thoughts sometimes. And sometimes people are racist to me! (I have an Irish heritage) But I am trying to do my bit by bringing up my sons to be as aware as possible.
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My thoughts on racism?\n\nI think that racism is horrible.  \n\nIt does seem as if we are the only country (USA) that has continued to do this.\n\nI hate it.  Racism is bad.\n\nI was and still am an overweight white male.  I grew up in Anaheim, Ca where there were no Hispanic people except for one family.  I made their kid my friend.  He was great.\n\nMy father's friend Van Foust (God rest in peace) had an Asian wife name Rikki.  I loved her because she treated me like a person.\n\nI lived in Puerto Rico where everyone was Hispanic.  They were so nice to the little "blond hair, blue eyed" child.\n\nI had a black friend names Stan Domino.  He and his brothers all bowled in my bowling league.\n\nI had a Vietnamese girlfriend.\n\nI had many Middle Eastern students.  They were like the Americans. \n\nI grew up with people who treated me like a was a people (?!).\n\nI respect that there were nice to me and I was nice back to them.\n\nRacists are idiots who have no idea that they live in a world of different people of different color and different sexual preference.  They are now a minority that needs to shrink out of all society.
231753
I think many people make false claims of racism when in actuality it had nothing to do with race. Some people need to get over things. Racism doesn't exist half as bad as what people and the media make it out to be...
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I don't think you can avoid racism because racism is a symptom of humanity.  We are always trying to figure out how to make ourselves better in our own minds and racism is an easy out.  I do however think that the only cure for it is the browning of the world.  I think as our races and cultures continue to mix these feeling will start to go away.  We have made tremendous progress over where we were 30 years ago, that is for sure.  It is hard for us to even conceive of a society where blacks ride at the back of the bus or drink from a different fountain.  \n\nRacism goes different directions and as a white man I have been the victim of the same by black people. It always hurts.  I live in the South now where it is visible.  In a sense it is almost better because you know where it is and you can avoid it.  There will always be nasty people in the world and it is up to people like us to look beyond them and find the commonality that we share.  Skin color really means nothing, it is what is in our hearts and minds that matters.
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First acknowledge that it is still much alive and visible. Mostly when you've been a victim of racism. You tend to be more aware of it, when you see it perpetrated on others.  Most people are immune to saying, the race card is being used once again. In regards to non caucasian individuals.  I am not a victim of racism. I am a Survivor of racism!  See past color, and get to know other cultures. Stop Mental Ignorance hug a Bear!
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Great question, by the way, but I think that racism is way too entrenched in today's society, to the point where it's just too sensitive a subject for anyone to "forget" about it, not that some in society ever should.  It's very difficult to forget and forgive something like racism, even if it really was or was not racism per se.  There sometimes, and I emphazise sometimes very difficult to prove whether an incident was racism or not.  If a store has a paycheck for a white worker, but the the paycheck for the black worker was lost in transit, is that racism?  I could bring up plenty of other scenarios like this, but it's all about feelings.  It's like trying to define sexual harrassment, it's not always easy.  To break it down, too many people are set in their ways for racism to end anytime soon (at least completely) in todays's world.
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i see ur point. i've been watchin and actually witnessing people that would go to such length, of claiming that somthing is only so bcoz of racism...and for stupid reasons too. i mean it has gotton so bad that people fear to fire or not employ people if they are not for the job. i mean really. but some are racist, you have to look at the situation to figure out if its for racism or facism. you pull, a good point too.:)
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I didn't think so before, but after seeing all the racist Qs & As on here, I have to think there is a bigger problem with racism than ever. Ignorance is the root of the problem. People don't seem to learn to empathise with others any more.
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haha too true...but some things are better than they used to be...\n-racism has lessened\n-better technology(well that can be looked at in multiple ways)\n\nok so im having trouble thinking of things\n\nits pretty screwed up
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I don't believe people are racist.I truly think they are fearful of what my happen when they let there enter self take over with feelings that make them say and do fearful things . You do have to say a lot has happen.Give them time to get to know you and see if you still feel the same way .Are maybe them are the people you just need to still away from.
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yes.  i believe everyone is racist, including me.  we live in a world that tells us since childbirth that dark people are bad.  if u are in a family of dark-complected people, chances are they tell u the opposite- that white people are evil.  society is setup this way, so I'm wary of anyone who says they have totally escaped this conditioning- don't trust them on that. \n\ni realize that i contain this bias and I'm always trying to improve it... rather than most people who deny they have any racism in themselves, and never try to improve it, since they won't admit they have a problem. \n\nit's a worldwide problem.  I'm American but a friend from India once told me that "anywhere i go, I'll catch hell" because of my dark skin.
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Nope.  I'm no better than he is.  We're all God's children.  Like it or not.  And if you aren't racist, why would you even ask that?  I truly feel like we are all a little racist, whether we know it or not.  If we weren't, we wouldn't see anyone as being a different race or a different color.  But the reality is that we do.  How we deal with it is the problem.....
1044235
ignorance and racism.
1027509
yes. we are so oversensitive these days that  if you ever disagree with someone of another color. then you are automatically labelled racist. amazing how thin skinned we are these days..
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I'm against it. Racism in a "positive" way is still racism. People should be chosen based on qualification, not based on race.
108533
yes i there still is. but it is in little dribs and drabs here and there. People are so afraid to be out and out racist that they say and do things quitely. For instance they may not give a black person as much work because they think they are lazy and not dependable. They may not serve them at a resturant because they think they won't get a tip. (See the question about black people at resturant). What makes me mad his how white people get mad when we say that actions against us are racist. but what they don't seem to understand is that if you are so upset that we play the "racecard" then stop dealing it! know the reason why we feel the way we do  and have some empathy. Look I am not blaming todays white youth for the problems of slavery. but if you know the history you would try to change it!