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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by SuperChiefFan It's sad to think that, in 2003, there continues to be bias/discrimination on many levels. You have to wonder: when will this tiresome issue just disappear, completely? I suspect the answer to that will be as varied as there are people.. [/quote] As you point out, bias/discrimination is the product of ignorance, and as such stamping it out is a tough row to hoe.... As someone who lived in Los Angeles during the '92 riots (and the threatened aftermath riots of the Reginald Denny beating case, and the OJ case in which instruments in the black community were threatening to "take it home to whitey") I can tell you thaty any real solution is going to have to include this country shedding the mindset that minorities cannot be guilty of racial bias, equality is afterall , a two way equalibrium. Seeing a community preparing to erupt as in the two "aftermath" instances referanced above, with "whitey" the proposed target, and signs reading "Black owned" being tacked up on the storefronts of black owned businesses all through Inglewood and Watts, serves as perhaps the most potent derail I can think of to the true and lasting harmony you identify, yet which remains ever so elusive. It tells the more ignorant among the whites that "it can't be wrong, the other side is doing it" Why is it that someone like Shaq can make racial slurrs against an Asian player as he did earlier this year, and there is nothing said about it, yet White folk such as Trent Lott or Howard Dean make innocent comments that get interpreted into worst possible context, then held against them as though they could only have meant them in the worst possible way?
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