Can we ever get over racism?

[reddogs]

I was looking at the news and they had a item on how even for popular figures in our culture they still are faced with racism at many levels...

"Racist 'Star Wars' fans aren't new. Why doesn't Disney do more to protect its actors?"

Racist 'Star Wars' fans aren't new. Why doesn't Disney do more to protect its actors?

Star Wars pushes back against racist backlash to new Black character

I come from a diverse background and grew up in South Florida with friends from all ethnicities and so didnt consider it issue to come into contact with underlying racism. But one incident was a eye opener that I never forgot. We had gone up North for a convention and needed shoes to be resoled, so we went to a shoe repair shop and asked if we could get them done. Well the answer was they were too busy, so we asked if we could bring it the next day and the answer was no, so we asked if at the end of the week and still it was no, so we asked when we could bring it and the answer was still they were too busy this or the next week or basically ever. I didnt think anything of it as we turned to leave, but my mother whose accent was definitely picked up, turned back and uncharacteristically called the owner out. That is when I saw the true cost and affects of racism..

I dont have a accent or look Hispanic so I had never really experienced it, but now my eyes were opened. Some say you just let it go no matter what, while others say that words cant hurt, but even they have a breaking point or line that can be crossed as there is usually action associated with the words. So is racism something that can be stopped or overcome, or will it be with us to the end?

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

As long as people do not acknowledge it exists, we will never get over it.

 

[DragonFox91]

We did, a long time ago, then the definition of the word was changed to 'anything you disagree w/ me on is racist.'

 

[GDL]

Unitil the end.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

We did, a long time ago, then the definition of the word was changed to 'anything you disagree w/ me on is racist.'

When was that?

 

[DragonFox91]

When was that?

The people who were taught to be racist died off.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

As long as people blame the 'other' ethnic groups for the troubles we have in society, we will never see the end to racism. It is funny how people do not see the sin nature in mankind.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

The people who were taught to be racist died off.

When?

 

[RDKirk]

The people who were taught to be racist died off.

The Boomer generation was the last generation that, as a whole generation, was explicitly taught to be racist.

No, we have not died off yet. We still largely control society.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

The Boomer generation was the last generation that, as a whole generation, was explicitly taught to be racist.

No, we have not died off yet. We still largely control society.

Yes, I am 67 and brought up racist. As hard as I try to be aware of it and not let it affect my views and behavior it is still an active part of me.

 

[RDKirk]

Yes, I am 67 and brought up racist. As hard as I try to be aware of it and not let it affect my views and behavior it is still an active part of me.

Even as a black man, I have to admit that it affects me in my core.

A couple of years ago, my wife and I were driving through an area of the city known to be "old money." Large mansions, large yards, a Rolls Royce appearing at a gat.

We saw a young black man jogging. My wife grunted. I'd noticed him too.

That's the thing about being in our generation: We noticed him. The thought that had specifically come into our minds was that the young black man was "out of place" in that neighborhood. I'm sure the majority of white people our age would have the same instantaneous thought, because it had been drilled into us by society in our childhoods that "the races have their places."

Now, our second reaction to the initial thought of "he's out of place" was "Way to go, brother!" Others our age may have a different second reaction.

It takes a deliberate effort to push back the lessons of childhood ("Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it"), and most people don't make such an effort.

 

[Sparagmos]

We did, a long time ago, then the definition of the word was changed to 'anything you disagree w/ me on is racist.'

When was that?

 

[Blade]

As the very old black man said a few years ago "racist was the last word used. Today its the first". That word is being tossed out so much today. You just look the other way "racist". YES I agree that word does not mean what it use to.

 

[reddogs]

Yes, I am 67 and brought up racist. As hard as I try to be aware of it and not let it affect my views and behavior it is still an active part of me.

How does it affect you, do you see others as a 'lower class' or 'having less education or money' or a danger at first glance?

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

How does it affect you, do you see others as a 'lower class' or 'having less education or money' or a danger at first glance?

For me it is a sense of danger, fear more than anything else. Probably because I was attacked as a child.

 

[d taylor]

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Can you get over stealing, murder, corruption, adultery, etc....

 

[RDKirk]

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Can you get over stealing, murder, corruption, adultery, etc....

Yes.

 

[d taylor]

Yes.

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So you are living where those acts do not happen, sure would like to know where this is.

 

[RDKirk]

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So you are living where those acts do not happen, sure would like to know where this is.

The question was: "Can you get over stealing, murder, corruption, adultery, etc....?"

Yes, I have gotten over the stealing, murder, corruption, adultery, et cetera, that white perpetrated upon the black people they brought from Africa for 350 years. I'm over that.

 

[d taylor]

The question was: "Can you get over stealing, murder, corruption, adultery, etc....?"

Yes, I have gotten over the stealing, murder, corruption, adultery, et cetera, that white perpetrated upon the black people they brought from Africa for 350 years. I'm over that.

Does not look like you did , since that is the line of thinking you had when i ask that question. Because my question was directed to sinful acts which is what racism falls under. And since these acts have not been been remedied neither will racism in the age of satan and man.