There are racist bigots and no training will change that. If you came into adulthood after the mid-seventies, then you developed in a world, which was sensitive to racism, and did not condone it.
It seems to me the only racists who have a cultural biased excuse are those who achieved adulthood by the mid sixties, or those from the deep South who came to adulthood a decade later.
So why is it a problem? I think it is still a problem but one that has changed form blacks always being intimidated by whites, to one where whites, particularly outside the South, fear black people, especially black men.
Somehow there continues to be a resentment that comes to a head when police react in fear and shoot black men. Part of this is an attitude often held by black males about seeming to portray themselves as tough guys. At the same time, their seems to be resentment on the part of whites over affirmative action movements, which have taken place. Some white think all black people should desire to be brought into the white middle-class fold, or the whites see them as defying social norms.
Many blacks want to establish their own ethics and this may seem threatening to the white established order.The result today is not so much outward hostility on the part of whites as it is fear.
At the same time, in the South, especially the deep South, there has been an increase of hostility over the greater inclusion of blacks. I have heard people say, " I do not like new movies because they are all about black people and how great they are." I have also heard is said that blacks are still slower of mind and more in touch with their body, which is why they have so much rhythm. This portrayal of black people as always dancing and clapping hands seems to reinforce a racialist notion, by its negative associations with institutional racism.
How many more generations will this last? I once thought a few oldies of my generation, when we die out, so will the last remnants of racial inequality. I am very discouraged to think now, I was wrong and attitudes, based on race, will continue.
I especially blame the baby boomer generation because they were the big critics on how wrong our culture was and how they wanted to change it. What happened to that? Maybe the newest Millennial generation will be more proactive and less loquacious and have solve this old problem, blacks and whites coming together as equals not as one group out to save the other.
It seems to me the only racists who have a cultural biased excuse are those who achieved adulthood by the mid sixties, or those from the deep South who came to adulthood a decade later.
So why is it a problem? I think it is still a problem but one that has changed form blacks always being intimidated by whites, to one where whites, particularly outside the South, fear black people, especially black men.
Somehow there continues to be a resentment that comes to a head when police react in fear and shoot black men. Part of this is an attitude often held by black males about seeming to portray themselves as tough guys. At the same time, their seems to be resentment on the part of whites over affirmative action movements, which have taken place. Some white think all black people should desire to be brought into the white middle-class fold, or the whites see them as defying social norms.
Many blacks want to establish their own ethics and this may seem threatening to the white established order.The result today is not so much outward hostility on the part of whites as it is fear.
At the same time, in the South, especially the deep South, there has been an increase of hostility over the greater inclusion of blacks. I have heard people say, " I do not like new movies because they are all about black people and how great they are." I have also heard is said that blacks are still slower of mind and more in touch with their body, which is why they have so much rhythm. This portrayal of black people as always dancing and clapping hands seems to reinforce a racialist notion, by its negative associations with institutional racism.
How many more generations will this last? I once thought a few oldies of my generation, when we die out, so will the last remnants of racial inequality. I am very discouraged to think now, I was wrong and attitudes, based on race, will continue.
I especially blame the baby boomer generation because they were the big critics on how wrong our culture was and how they wanted to change it. What happened to that? Maybe the newest Millennial generation will be more proactive and less loquacious and have solve this old problem, blacks and whites coming together as equals not as one group out to save the other.
