The Lonious Monk;573856 said:Therein lies the problem. You believe that everything involving race is illusory, but that's simply not true. The fact of the matter is that there is a thing called culture, and culture is usually tied strongly to the idea of racism. Whether you choose to accept it or not, there are differences between the average white person and the average black person. No, it's not biological, or anything intrinsic to those people as beings. However, it's still real. Failing to acknowledge this and "smacking down" anyone who does acknowledge it doesn't help the problem, it makes it worst. You have to acknowledge differences before you can accept them. You also have to understand their presence before you can respect them.
Your mindset is why a lot of white people who wish to be colorblind never actually succeed. In their minds, they tell themselves that race isn't an issue. But in their hearts they don't truly accept that people are different than them. So, they hold everyone regardless of race or culture to the same standard because to them that is equality. And then when they find that people don't respond in every situation the way they think they do, they automatically assume something is wrong with those people. They don't see that the problem is you can't put everyone in the same box. We all have different experiences, indoctrinations, and ideologies. Racism won't go away by pretending that there is no basis for it. It won't go away until everyone at least makes the attempt to understand and accept the very real differences that are there.
You probably heard about the cliche saying that goes: To come to the heart of it, do not come part of it. I acknowlegde that there are thousands of cultures, thousands of different people(hell if race does exist than there are a thousand of them), that there are also thousands of dead cultures and people. Cultures are always in development, under construction if you will(our children will have different perceptions of what 'we' supposelydly are etc), the world is so diverse and yet so complex that if we would study human diversity we would die not comprehending it....how can I not accept or acknowledge differences when we all are? . My girl is from Suriname, I am from Morocco, we both live in The Netherlands and when we have kids they will be dutch lol, cool thing is that now that I think about it we only hang with tolerant and universal folk. real hang with real. Off course there are some haters here and there but who cares man. they dont rule My world(and shouldn't rule yours, or your mindstate).
Unity through diversity, I luv it bro. Illusions are as real as you want them to be, you talk a lot about differences on a negative way and what not, like to acknowledge race, maybe if you wouldn't and actually embrace the diversity the next time when you look into the mirror you wouldn't see a racist......
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