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Originally Posted by Joshua G
what about self segregation? look at how the public makes housing choices, & how they make friends at college. all the races stick to one another in an open society.
did white people force all the races to live homogenously at college? does anyone in our country force anyone to not live in their town (besides the gated rich)
& when white hipsters started populating williamsburg this past decade, converting it from a slum to the coolest part of brooklyn...spike lee publicly bitched about it! called it "gentrification" WTF is that??? sounds like spike lee doesnt like integration very much. but isnt he a liberal?
its my opinion that people still have genetic tendancies to tribalism, even among liberals. & i wonder what you smell as racism, i am seeing as tribalism.
50 years of liberal PC cant change thousands of years of genetic social preference. do you know the left oppresses genetic research into racial disparities? john tierney wrote a big thing about liberals oppressing science when they dont agree with it.
so theres all that...
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I personally describe racism as this: having a negative opinion of, or reaction to, a person based only on the color of their skin (sometimes this can be presented in combination with the way they are dressed/present themselves). Let me give you a few examples. White guy walks down the street and sees a black person walking towards them. They cross the street to avoid them. That is racism. They have never met that person. They have no idea who this person is, but because they are black they are avoiding them. Black person goes in for a job interview and assumes they aren't going to get the job because the person who is conducting the interview is white. That is racist.
Sure, similar people tend to live together. That isn't just a race thing. People of similar religions often live together. People of similar income levels live together, but race is an easy one to identify. I don't think we live together like that out of racism, but, like you said, it is kind of ingrained into our minds. Also, it is familiar and humans like familiarity.