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After seeing thread after thread with "blacks" (or much less often)"whites" in the title -- and much more often in posts -- when do you think that people in the U.S. will stop identifying people by skin color when giving their opinions about an issue?
Imo, this can't come too soon, but I honestly don't think it will happen for another 25 years, at least.
What is your opinion?
Last edited by katharsis; 01-30-2020 at 06:41 PM..
I don't believe everybody in the States thinks that way.
Maybe it will stop when the people who do think that way all stop comparing themselves with other people..... or maybe when they're all dead? It's a conundrum.
It isn't a United States thing. There seems to be a part of our human makeup, either learned or somehow inherited, that makes us want to identify with a designated group. If it wasn't race it would be something else, but race is an easy target. We don't seem to care about hair color because there can be different siblings with different hair colors. We don't care about right/left-handedness even though science tells us that there may be an actual difference in thought or perspective based on handedness...because we might have parents or siblings with one or the other. Where race is not an issue we invent ethnic differences (Hutu/Tutsi, Bosnian/Serbian). We can always fall back on religion if all else fails (Catholic Irish/Protestant Irish).
Off-topic but, personally, I get tired of news sources associating or identifying a criminal or alleged criminal as an "Iraq veteran" or "Vietnam veteran" when their veteran status has nothing at all to do with the story.
It may become less common in the near (10 years) future but it will never totally disappear. Asking that is like asking if people will ever stop killing each other.
I say not within our lifetimes. It’s sewn into our DNA, the fear of others - we had to have a low bar for danger in our tribal days. Today that translates to race being too valuable a piece on the board for politicians to ignore.
There are good trends such as the rate of interracial marriage (I myself am in one). It will get better, but there will be bumps in the road because our lizard brains haven’t completely caught up to modern understanding.
This is also why LGBT is still an issue, religion is still an issue (can anyone say Islam?), why Demicans and Republicrats still have friction.
I am fed up with people who don't want to accept the fact that we are all separated naturally by race. Straight hair on a black person does not make them white. Dreadlocks on a white person does not make them black. We can plainly see on the outside what is on the inside, and it's on the inside where the deep differences will remain.
I am fed up with people who don't want to accept the fact that we are all separated naturally by race. Straight hair on a black person does not make them white. Dreadlocks on a white person does not make them black. We can plainly see on the outside what is on the inside, and it's on the inside where the deep differences will remain.
After seeing thread after thread with "blacks" (or much less often)"whites" in the title -- and much more often in posts -- when do you think that people in the U.S. will stop identifying people by skin color when giving their opinions about an issue?
Imo, this can't come too soon, but I honestly don't think it will happen for another 25 years, at least.
What is your opinion?
As long as metrics like income, employment, academic achievement, arrest/incarceration, and many others continue to correlate with race. And as long as that continues to happen, we should be talking about it.
Those things matter. Know what doesn't matter? Getting all uncomfortable because - heaven forbid - someone declines to pretend that race doesn't matter, and therefore talks about it.
I think in a few more generations, we’ll all be blended to cafe au lait color, and race won’t be an issue.
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