Why are so many white Americans across the class spectrum racist toward American blacks, specifically? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...unfortunate-more-black-people-didn-t-n1215451 Like where does it stem from? That black people should be property? I never understood why people harbor such hate for others.
Half a millennium of rhetoric that black people are dumb and violent where they were treated as physical assets rather than humans that got passed down generation after generation for all those centuries will obviously have lingering effects on how society views that group of people.
Good article about it in the Washington Post after the Charlottesville incident from 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hat-science-says-about-americas-race-problem/ Why are people still racist? What science says about America’s race problem. What causes people to be racist? “In some ways, it’s super simple. People learn to be whatever their society and culture teaches them. We often assume that it takes parents actively teaching their kids, for them to be racist. The truth is that unless parents actively teach kids not to be racists, they will be,” said Jennifer Richeson, a Yale University social psychologist. “This is not the product of some deep-seated, evil heart that is cultivated. It comes from the environment, the air all around us.” Richeson compares children's instinctive formation of biases to a student at a new school. “When you arrive at a new high school. You are instinctively trying to figure out who’s cool, who’s not, who’s a nerd, who gets beat up? Kids quickly acquire these associations,” she said. To get a sense of just how pervasive and imperceptibly our environment can affect us, one study at Tufts University found that even with a TV show on mute displaying scenes with no explicit discrimination, the nonverbal body language of black and white actors interacting was enough to cause watchers to test higher for implicit bias afterward. “An us-them mentality is unfortunately a really basic part of our biology,” said Eric Knowles, a psychology professor at New York University who studies prejudice and politics. “There’s a lot of evidence that people have an ingrained even evolved tendency toward people who are in our so-called 'in group.'” But how we define those groups, and the tendency to draw divisions along racial lines, is social, not biological, he added. “We can draw those lines in a number of ways that society tells us,” he said. (More at the Link above)
I didn’t say all white Americans. But it’s not 1% of White America who hold beliefs that Black Americans are inferior.
I believe this is part of it. But certainly not all of it. At the lowest of levels in life there is always the " us" , " they" , " them" mindset. After all you are a rocket fan. In my racist mind I could argue you are one of the good whites or good black guys on that account alone. So we are already wearing a flag of some sort as people ..that is how we roll. Then you look at pure percentage and it would make sense that there be a bias one 'team' to another. White 72 % hispanic 16% black 12% asian 4% Doesnt make it right. There is so much more but team affiliation is a root cause. The other main issue is economic and how that has played into it. It has been a tough road and you can directly link the 2. BUT there will still be racism no matter how rich or poor ..then it would just be the blues vs the greens https://www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/blues-and-greens
Very true. It’s also not only whites that have prejudices and stereotypes towards other racial groups. There have been several recent murders by young black men on seemingly innocent people (here in Houston in fact) that could be considered serious hate crimes.
There definitely is racism and most of it is directed at Hispanics nowadays although there is still racism against blacks. There is also a difference in the way Hispanics handle it. They dont give a damn about Trump's rhetoric.
You can't legislate feelings. We have civil rights we have freedom As far as how the past shapes our current situation, you can't go back in time
Well that's not the point in understanding the past. The point in understanding the past is the same reason why when you solve an engineering problem you need to understand the problem first. Understanding the problem and how the problem started is the first step in solving said problem.
They dont make a big deal of it publicly. We have Hispanics on this board. They didn't start threads on Trump's anti immigration rhetoric
They do. Plenty of threads during the migrant crisis. Plenty of threads on his anti-hispanic rhetoric.
Affirmative action doesn't solve the root causes and safety nets only sustain the baseline amount of living that doesn't address k-12 education, healthcare etc.
