I'd say we all have prejudices. My feelings for Muslims are complicated and bother me, and I'm working on them on my own, but something happens and it flairs up and the anger and the fear, really irrational stuff takes over.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Exactly. That is how it starts. The parents don't have to say > > anything. Kids pick up on it very quickly, listening to the side > > comments, watching your distain for certain people etc. Its quite > > insidious. > > > > I heard author Junot Diaz speaking ... he had been on the MIT campus > and asked if there was any racism there; everyone said, "no, none, not > here, none". He replied,"really? cause it seems like there are a LOT > of asian girls with white guys here ..." he got silence to that from a > vocal audience. > > In other words, I think he was trying to say that we're all racist > because we're all humans - the question is how much we let it control > our judgements and/or how much we pretend it's not controlling our > judgement even when it is. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358552 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
