Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Although I'm actually currently in shock at all the race-related threads on city-data today. I do want to agree with you, I think it is impossible not to see color. Not just impossible, but also I think it is unhealthy for all parties involved. To do so, you would have to rewire the brain to be devoid of all prejudice.
I don't just mean "Racial prejudice", I mean all prejudice. The human brain makes assumptions about people based on all kinds of outward characteristics. For instance, what clothes someone is wearing, whether or not they are dirty, how they style their hair, what kind of car they drive, whether they are male or female, what kind of accent they speak with, etc.
Prejudice is "natural". I agree that "experiences" and "cultural norms" do have an effect on the assumptions people make about the outward characteristics of a person. For instance, if you heard a thick country accent, you aren't going to instantly think "Rocket scientist". You are going to think "a dumb hick, who probably has sex with his sister, votes Republican, and constantly complains about immigrants".
There is extreme accent prejudice/discrimination in this country. The real question is, what can or should be done about it?
I have come to the conclusion that I simply don't give a crap. If the Yankees(whites) think the southerners(blacks) are a bunch of ignorant hicks(criminals), why were they so eager to keep the south in the union circa 1861? I say, if you don't like me, let us be separated, forever(I need some old-school Malcolm X).
You are still using the word "Yankees" for northern whites? Seriously?
I don't agree with this ladies teaching technique at all. All she is really doing is race-baiting and possibly promoting hate with any non-whites in the class room and creating apologists out of all the white kids that are more than likely fully aware of the atrocities committed during slavery days.
Right on. Just another raving Lunatic who ingested too much Peyote in the 70s. She could easily make enemies out of two people who were otherwise friends because one was white and one was other. Think she needs to be dropped off in the D late at night and learn a real life lesson.
Whats sad is these insane leftist are teachers in many of our educational institutions.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
