People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.
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The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.
Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
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