casper4020322
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I think racism is a character defect....and human can have it. But I also think the experience of racism is different for whites....they have never known institutional racism, and if they choose to, they can organize their lives to avoid contact with non-whites and still live in relative comfort.
"Different" BTW, does not make it better. It's still wrong.
Whites have never known institutionalized racism? What do you call affirmative action? Penalizing people simply because of the color of their skin, I fail to see how that is not racism.
I guess the Irish, the Italians , the Catholics, the Germans were all not white ( before 1900). All those groups were targets of racism. The Irish Germans and Catholics all were indentured servants. A form of slavery. In Europe I guess Non Catholic whites were never the subject of racism?
In my opinion NO MAN OR WOMAN OR CHILD on the face of this earth should have ever been treated as if they were less than a human being. I don't care what race they were. God created us and no man should have the ability to take away anyone's civil liberties. It was wrong then and if it is still going on, it is wrong now.