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	Name:	Yankee06
	Subject:	Racism???? Really???
	Date:	3/25/2010 8:51:24 PM

Hound,

-You write in above email after accepting the definition of racism: " Yes, and the basis for that belief is fear of a people that they don't understand and have no experience dealing with.
"

-That's just nuts, ...whoa, maybe that's a little strong. However, most racism doesn't result from having "...no experience dealing with (a race)...," but rather, the other way round.

-It was the old white plantation owners belief that the black slave was less than a man, tha allowed the owner to use the slave like cattle. That's not a lack of understanding, that's not a lack of having experience dealing with ...the slaves. On the other hand, today, many blacks have racist views about whites, believeing that white's inherently hate blacks, that all whites want to subjugate blacks, that whites are incapable of justly running a major black city, etc. Again, that racism is based on "experience with" whites subjugating them, etc. Racism usually results from bad "experiences with" other races.
-Now what you're probably talking about is that racism would become less over time if whites and blacks worked together, lived together, went to school together, etc. And in alot of cases that is true, --and in alot of cases not true. But it is the concept we have been trying to base our society on for at least the last half century. Slow going , huh?
-Most social anthropologists will say that the real essence of racism exists in the very survival instinct of all living things as highlighted by Darwin's theory of revolution. Everything that is different is threatening until proven otherwise. It's a discussion we should all have and understand, but unfortuneately, this forum is too restricted. I guess that's why we have bars and happy hours! Can I buy you a drink?