How can we stop "RACISM"?

Question

I feel it yes i do(it's still alive)...in any place any spot and in any location discrimination of colours....why...why do we still breathe this poisonous air...can we live in peace and remember martin luther king's dream.

And i don't mean towards black only(sure itz most towards black)but i mean other races(hispanic,asian..etc).Now let me complete the dream...i have a dream that one day all the races will put thier hands all in together with the kidz in the middle(black,white,hispanic,arabia,asian...etc).

I've got a lot more to say 'bout racism but hell go with it...when are people going to realize that this is just "Ignorant" believe me we can destroy that world and live in peace..peace...peace...yes now thatz the word i was lookin' 4 all the time...we need to live in peace...right..?

Answer 1

Excellent question my friend! I wish there was way.....

I have it experienced it too. (I guess you would call it "reverse" discrimination. As a child to a single educated parent, my mother raised us to be loving to all....never to mock another person, make fun, point, laugh, stare, etc...to anyone that was different. Whether they be black, white, green, brown, disabled, whatever.......So I grew up just as kind and open minded as anyone could be... Then we moved to the deep deep South. (This was in the 70's). When I started school, no one wanted anything to do with me....I was one of the only whites in the school. It was horrible, I was a young girl with a heart of gold, just wanting to be accepted but instead I was teased, mocked, spit at, picked on....etc...

A few years later we moved to a nearby town that was mostly "white". And the same thing happened to me there too....except this time by the whites. When they found out where I moved from, I was labeled the "N----- Lover". I didn't mind though.....because I would rather be labeled a "lover" than a "hater" any day of the week!

And you are right, whites and blacks and not the only ones guilty of this.....I have seen it in many cultures. It is a shame. We are all God's children, which makes us all brothers and sisters.

If there is a cure for this "disease" call prejudice, I would like to get everyone an immunization shot!

Peace....

Answer 2

The first step is to get rid of the racism in you. Don't think that all the bad things that happen to you are because of your color. Is it possible it happens because of you as a person? There are those idiots that won't let go of a few misinterpreted phrases in the Bible, but to the most part Racism is a dying breed. Oh, don't get me wrong. I run into it all the time. What? Me??? I bet because I am white, you think I don't experience racism... Anyone that thinks they are better than someone else because of color, or beliefs, is racist. Well, racism is here for everyone. I was once told that I needed to learn Spanish as there are now more Spanish people in America then there are any other race, so I needed to change my language to suit theirs. I shook my head and shrugged it off... There will always be people that try to oppress others. It's been this way since the earliest of humanity. Remember, the Jews were an oppressed people... And, in many ways they still feel it.

Answer 3

First , do away with affirmative action that places un-qualified minorities in jobs where there are more experienced people do do said job .
Next , have the blacks do away with calling each other ni----- , that word just continues the thoughts of racism .
For the most part minorities do not have to work as hard as the caucasion people , because the government gives them low income housing .
Do away with this thing called e-bonics , as we are all americans we should all speak the same language .
There are many caucasion people who are less fortunate than many other races .
If the government wants to put an end to racism , they should treat people as if " All Men Are Created Equal ", and not give special priveliges to minorities .
If you want to talk about discrimination , let us talk about how a black teen from a home with an income of $ 35,000 /year can get a loan for college and a teen from a caucasion family with the same income is turned down for the same loan . It is this type of thing that perpetuates racism .

Answer 4

Easy. Don't get hung up on race.

Focusing on someone's race to presume/explain something about them is flawed.

It does not work in practice, and it is not logical since there seems to be no scientific connection between race and behavior/aptitude/achievement.

How we act, what we have, how we think, and what we do - seems to be more determined by what happens to us after we are born than anything else. Race does not seem to be a factor.

There are jokes about blondes not being smart. But the most brilliant computer programmer I know has blonde hair.

I have known people of lots of races who were the smartest and nicest people I have ever met.

There are communities or neighborhoods where the people are less educated - because they have less schools.

There are people or neighborhoods that are more violent/dangerous - because they just are, and that is what people growing up there value, or had to survive in, or both.

There are neighborhoods where people are less affluent - because their parents had less money, and maybe some of the reasons above too.

Modern culture is more about letting individuals rise to their level of ability than anything else.

You have probably realized that people, even all of us modern people walking the modern world today, tend to over-generalize about many, many things.

I can give you a few links that help you understand why, and how, this happens. You can figure for yourself how racism is just one of a lot of things that arises from this tendency.

Racism is not logical. So encourage people to think logically, and educate them about the facts of sociology, biology, and psychology.

Individually, people have always used flawed reasoning - not everyone - but a lot of people.

Like the saying says: you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time.

People have not gotten dramatically smarter, physiologically, every ten thousand years since civilization as we know it began to take shape 30,000 years or so.

But civilization has.

Generalization is one of the ways of answering questions that the human brain, if not logic itself, uses to try to solve problems. But over-generalizing - that is a flawed way to come to a conclusion.

So it is up to society to educate people. People who do not think that matters are wrong.

After all, without education, language, technology, law, art, medicine, and a lot of other things that are learned - not inborn - we are not a lot different than people 31,000 years ago.

And we probably want to be.

Answer 5

Understanding. We need to stop breeding racism. Parents can stop racism ,but not just in your own children if you know a child that is on that path regardless of race show love and understanding. This is also a problem that can be slowed by those that have been victims.If they don't lash out at Innocent people of the race that hurt them.But to be truthfully I don't believe it will ever go away completely.There will always be some kid made fun of because of there race,religion,sexual orientation or because someone thinks they are a nerd.Don't ever give up tho we can definitely slow this down.

Answer 6

You want to know how you stop racism? One person at a time. If each of us would befriend someone of another race and religion and culture, we could all learn that we have friends all around us!

People tend to stay in their own cliques, their own groups and their comfortable places. But it doesn't take much effort to step outside the box and meet some prospective friends and acquaintances.

We have a lot of things to share and the time is wasted by some who look for power by putting someone else down, by word or gesture or ignoring. True power is in elevating yourself and others and learning the good they and you have to offer the world and each other.

Try it. Make it happen. The only way it works is if you put forth the effort.

Answer 7

It would help loads if people lived in mixed communities more. If we all lived in one place and went to the same schools that would be start.
I feel that I was very lucky to go to an inner city school which was about 1/3 Black, 1/3 Asian and 1/3 White.

Answer 8

Discrimination on the basis of color or nationality is a crime against humanity. Most of such discrimination is fast disappearing. Yet human mind often tends to be full of malice and jealousy for many reasons.Thus racism raises its ugly head again and again. This can not disappear entirely unless root causes such as exploitation, injustice, the rich poor divide of Nations is remedied. Also poverty, illiteracy and ill-health have to be tackled world wide. These problems are enormous and may take ages to find satisfactory solutions. In conclusion racist behavior is difficult to root out in its entirety in the near future.

Answer 9

My father was raised in the deep south in the 1950's. As a product of his environment, he developed some racist tendencies. He was a smart guy, though, and made it a point to raise his children with fewer of those tendencies than he had. We, in turn, raise our children with even fewer.

Racism can't be turned off like a light switch. I will be smothered over time as each succeeding generation deprives it of a little more air.

Are race relations in the US spectacular? No.

But I think we can agree that they are a hell of a lot better than they were 50 years ago.

Answer 10

You said it best Ignorance, and it ain't just white people recist against black people asian hispanics, it is blacks against the same hispanics against the same and so on.

The whole world is guilty, I would guess even you my friend has had a thought you weren't proud of about a member of an opposite race!

Stop The Ignorance!!! The whole world is guilty and unfortuantely I think we are still a long way away!