[MD] Racism

[Peter Corteen]

Your are right Heather, racism works both ways; Al Qaeda and his gang are
all racist too.
I suggest racism is a fundamental part of human nature and will raise it's
ugly head wherever two groups have opposing aims.

-Peter

On 23/09/06, Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Steve H,
>
>      Your basing your whole intellectual racism prose,
> on a movie.  Ah, that's a movie.  Where I work, most
> of the racist are of a darker skin tone.  Some are
> very explicit about how their black and everybody else
> is so different and we don't understand them.
> Meanwhile, their in gangs, and when at the facility
> they need not worry about gang violence, yet, it's a
> mindset.  They have to fit-in with others, show-off,
> and look tough.  Meanwhile nobody's going to come
> after them, but they have this image to uphold.  It's
> all in their head, and much of their not trying to
> understand others is due to their parents.  I've met
> and heard therapists and supervisors talk about some
> of the parents.  The parents have a hate that has gone
> racists themselves.  That's the catch-22.  Think
> others are racists towards you, and soon you are
> racists towards them.  Racism is just another
> blame-game, another way to not take responsibility,
> and another way to be angry.  Racism is just another
> way for haters to express hate.
>      I hope you have a better way to show evidence of
> racism.  It is a very difficult link to be made, and a
> movie isn't an answer.
>
> SA
>
> > [Platt]
> > Please. I see little evidence of racism in the U.S.
> > You must have a different
> > definition than mine.
> >
> > [Steve H]
> > Watch the movie "Crash"
>
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