Now all know who you are. Fine admission.Sociologists Michael Emerson and Christian Smith (Divided by Faith, 2000) interviewed White evangelical Christians and found that they (like most other White Americans) do not believe that either history or discrimination can explain racialization (on-going racial inequality). Neither do they believe that people of color are genetically inferior to Whites. As a result, and almost by default, they conclude that contemporary inequality stems from the inferiority of Black culture and from the fact that Black people are lazier, on average, than White people. (Almost all the White interviewees in the study focused on Black people specifically, rather than on people of color more generally.)
Let’s be clear: this is racist, and it taps into cultural stereotypes that have been around for generations. But it is important to understand that most White people who hold these views do not believe that they are racist. For one thing, their image of a racist is a Klansman or a neo-Nazi. A racist is, by their definition, an outright bigot. Anything short of that is given a pass. Furthermore, most White people think that racism is believing in the genetic inferiority of a group of people.. They reject the idea of genetic inferiority, so by that logic as well, they can’t be racist.
Most important of all, from the perspective of many White people, they are merely drawing a logical conclusion from the facts.
Everything else flows from there.
- The playing field is level.
- But some people aren’t doing as well as others.
- Therefore, they must be to blame, either individually, collectively, or both.
ONly a lying asshole would claim that stating a culture has a problem is racist.
I have not claimed that, you drooling retard. YOUR post just did that. You drooling retard.