Thoughts on racism

Originally Posted by deadally

Race superiority is a fact in some fields...

Such as?

Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

I'm sorry, but this is just extremely ignorant. We aren't forcing 'white' history on anybody. We are teaching the history of how America came to be, and like it or not, we started off with a colony of WHITE people coming to this country for the freedom to practice their religion without hamper. Race has nothing to do what is being taught. HISTORY has everything to do with what is being taught.

There isn't any reason to learn about black history outside of a black history class, unless you are talking about slavery/civil rights. Anything back further than that is pointless in a history class.

That right there is fucking ignorant. Just to disgregard any amount of history is completely asinine. Blacks have as much importance to the history of America and the world as much as whites, Native Americans, Asians, Indians and any other culture and/or race of the world. To leave out one in favor of the other only leads to the same mistakes being made.

Race is still an important issue and even in the rest world, as the riots in France has shown. It may seem like racism is gone but it's just pushed under the radar, away from the public concscience, wrapped in the warm blanket called 'political correctness'.

Sure, some of the issue does lay within the individual. The ghettos could be improved with the support of the community. However, the fact that the stereotypes and ignorance permiates within many whites agrivates things. Attributing statistics such as crime and arrests to race doesn't show that such a race is more troublesome, it just shows that that race is generally in a disadvantageous situation. I can guarentee you that the situation would be exactly the same with only the skin color changed.

I'm very fortuante to be where I'm at, and no I don't know what it's like to be persecuted, harassed or discrimated on the basis of my skin color. I wish I did, it would be easier to empathize.

Jam it back in, in the dark.