Nonsense. Racism exists in all parts of the world, and black racism is MORE pervasive now than white in the US. The reason for this is that it is now acceptable to be a Black Racist, as it once was acceptable to be a White Racist. (It's just not acceptable to LABEL it racism.) The very appropriate (and long overdue) backlash against White Racism that took place in the fifties and sixties led to a lot of laws, court decisions and the like that changed the legal landscape. But the more lasting effect of that backlash was to change the mind of the majority of Americans. Of course there are white racists in America, and the first amendment even allows the most brain-dead of them to spout off their nonsense in public. But unlike fifty years ago MOST Americans do not agree - not even tacitly - with what they say. They are no longer leaders, they are the lunatic fringe. Far more Americans still have racial prejudice, but they sublimate it into personal prejudice. They know better than to endorse discrimination. Most of them don't even WANT to discriminate. They accept the idea that races are equal, they just can't overcome their natural prejudices. This is not an American condition, it is a human condition, as you have pointed out.
Utter nonsense. As I've indicated, Primary racism is a condition of domination through exploitation + prejudice. You're simply stuck on petty secondary racism, which is nothing more than a byproduct. Of course it is offensive, but it isn't the foundation upon which the house is built. This country was built on the notion that blacks were subhuman - less than whites. You may not like that, but that is the truth. There is 400 years of history, of conditioning whites to believe in their superiority and the inverse - to condition blacks to their inferiority. Despite all the well-wishing and togetherness that one would love to bestow upon the current state of affairs, the truth is that five years does not change 400 years of conditioning, teaching, and living.
African-Americans, however, consider themselves justified in their brand of racial hatred. It isn't racism, they say, because you have to have POWER to be a racist. That's just a self-serving redefinition of the word. Black people use racial slurs and stereotypes in describing white people with impunity. Oprah Winfrey can build a school, recruit all black children to attend and then when questioned about it say "I don't have to explain myself to white people." (Yeah, I know, that's not the exact quote but it is an accurate representation.) Imagine if Rush Limbaugh did that with the appropriate racial adjustments. Oprah Winfrey is a racist. She is even a racist by the PC definition, because there are few people in America with her clout. There's a real good chance that had she endorsed Hillary, this wouldn't even be a race. But why endorse a white person - even a woman - when there is "one of us" running. But nobody will call her a racist, because Blacks can't be racist.
No offense Pooch, but this sounds like whining to me. Oprah's school is in South Africa. Do you know the history of South Africa? Do you know who supported that country's regime?
African-Americans continue to use the tired old "racism" excuse for all of their social ills, personal failures and bad decisions. And yes, I am broad-brushing, but there IS a cultural mindset among African-Americans that says the White Man is their real problem. Even Barak Obama, who is very likely to reach the highest office in the land, still whines about the White man. The justification for hatred of White people is that Whites have always been - and are still - holding blacks down. Horsecrap. White people held black people down for a long time, but that time is past. While some residual barriers still remain from the slavery and Jim Crow years, most Black people today are held down by Black people - very often themselves. One of the biggest barriers to many black people is their own prejudice. They use it as an excuse to fail - and then blame that failure on others. That, too, is a human condition - it's called rationalization.
So Detroit and Memphis are predominantly black and exceptionally poor because individual blacks have "personal failures and make bad decisions?" You are somewhat correct, but you stray off the path. Blacks are held down because the people American society demonstrates to be successful are white. White = normal. White = human. Blacks still live in a society dominated by white economic exploitation. More than that, it is a society dominated by white psychology. That is not innate to humanity,
that is learned. That is 400 years of dehumanization. The white heterosexual Protestant male is held in the highest regards. Onto people who do not fit into that select group are projected all of the deviancies of the white male. In your terminology I would say, "it's called projection."
So we have a group that gets saddled with terms like: lazy, sexually deviant, stupid, manual laborers, thieves, dirty, unwashed, ugly, unclean, etc. These are not terms that reflect on any genetic reality, but are projections of the Id from the dominant group (in this case white males). The great fear of Southern whites were black slaves storming the plantation house and raping the delicate and virtuous white women. Of course, in reality many slave owners slept with and even forcibly raped their female slaves. As I said, it is called projection.
This projection is taught, not innate. It has been taught for centuries. The Roma and Jews in Europe, the blacks in America and South Africa, the Aborigines in Australia have all been on the receiving end. And it is taught to the groups being dehumanized as well. The Roma, Jews, Aborigines, Blacks, and Native Americans are taught that they are "wrong" that "right" is a European white male. And it is there where you come close Pooch, but you start blaming the individual blacks, when they are only living up to what white society has taught them to be.
Many people in here, both left and right love using the phrase color-blind. If they don't use it they use the meaning. They pretend to believe that it was the goal of the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War.
Yet, a color-blind society is typically nothing but a well-intentioned, but incorrect wish for a society that is all white. It is a society where the Roma, Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Homosexuals, and women are never free to be themselves. They are simply mimics of white male society and projections of white male deviancies. Differences are not celebrated, but are truly "viewed" as if we were all blind.
