Equality my ass

am I missing something? who is supposed to be playing the victim here? I must have a reading comprehension problem as well as a writing comprehension problem.

Or you lot are just far too clever for me. Or something.

*le sigh*

*goes back to playing with ball of string*

I don't know. I was clearly asked to "fill in my choice" so I did.

You don't know what my lot are!

I don't think there is any racial equality. I live in an area where the population is 90% caucasian. High on the list of people's concerns is the issue of asylum seekers. We are currently harbouring exactly zero asylum seekers.

Xenophobia rulez.

Kris...I dont give a damn what color your skin is. I treat others as they treat me. Even if their furry, or Gor, or slaves, or masters. If someone shows me respect or says hello or is nice, i will always treat them with the same respect. Some of the people get pissed at me for this, but I dont care. I know there are others who play racial card, but you can always throw it back at them seeking attention. If you seen me in SL, u know how I am ^_^ your all Meatbags to me

Its all about your tax bracket, kids. The race thing is for the small thinkers to keep them occupied and fighting amongst themselves.

Its about your bank account. The rest is window dressing.

I think there are two dynamics going on here. The first is sort of an institutional one-in gerenal when you say "young achiever's award" it is assumed to be a white award. This was far more true even twenty years ago than it is today. Thus the government and other institutions have slowly taken steps to foster the cultural identity of the minorities, and we have these months and programms to celebreate diversity. The problem is that the government and the institutions are way behind the social curve.


The brings me to the second dynamic, the personal one. We know live in a society where multiculturalism is a fact. Here in Couthern California it would be impossible to remove the dominant spanish culture from our community. Whatever the color of our skin, we have here a society that is only part white american, it is in other parts hispanic, black and asian. It is not purely any of these cultures-you can't take the white or the black culture out of the mix. This California mish mash culture is many things, but most of all its mine.
And I share it with other people who are hispanic and black and asian.

In general, I think, for people of my generation, but even more so kids of later generations, racism is not something society creats, it is somethign kids are taught. If you put a child in any school in america and let them grow up without altering influence from home, nbothing in the school will teach them to be racist.

Furthermore, across the board, the people who they will respect and admire, in sports, in music, in movies, will be from a diversity of races. We have generations who are growing up with hip-hop culture as the popular culture norm. Already we look at actors like Denzel washington and samuel l jackson as actors, not black actors. the individual outlook is one of basic multi-culturalism. Racism has gon from beig an endemic to a taught thing.

Thus as people we look at it and say "why do we need a balck history month, I appreciate the fact that black people have made a huge contribution to our society." And in some respects this is true. But remember that insitutions change slower, and the change in the institutions cements and solidifies the changes in the individuals.

I suppose ultimately what needs to happen is to get to the point where we see that "black history" and "hispanic history" are "our history." It is a subtle shift in thinking, but a critical one.