how evident is racisim in your community?

Question

just thought i ask.

Answer 1

Great question! Unfortunately very evident in my community and it seems to be multi-directional. All races and cultures seem to be suspicious of all others. I've thought about it a great deal and I think that with the upheaval and unrest in the world, there's a greater tendency at home to attempt to feel safe. And unfortunately that seems to start by identifying who "is like me" and who "isn't like me." Those in the latter category--readily identified by racial characteristics--are regarded with greater suspicion and assumed to pose a greater threat, whether or not there's any truth in that assumption. Those assumptions create greater tensions, and those tensions escalate until they're manifested in overt racisim. I think the only way we can stop it is to follow Gandhi's advice: "We must become the change we want to see."

Answer 2

In my community whether they admit it or not, racism is pretty evident. I am moving a.s.a.p. I know you can't run from or escape racism completely, but at least maybe with a little luck, I can find more of a mixed culture and fewer bigots. Where I am living I am one of the "Majority" living here. I hate racism and bigotry. I owned a pre-school a few years back for many years. I taught my little pre-schoolers that God loves beauty. That is why our beautiful earth has such beautiful colors like the blue sky, the white clouds, the green grass and trees, and the beautiful rainbow. If you look around we have a beautiful earth with lots of beautiful color. And best of all, God made man in His image, beautiful. And to make humans even more beautiful, to compliment His beautiful earth, He made men and women and children of many different beautiful color. Then I taught them the song "Jesus Loves the Little Children"... red and yellow, black and white. I had some ridicule from a few parents over this. But, I won in the end, because I had a pre-school with mixed culture and all my beautiful children got a long very well. :)

Answer 3

The question you pose is done in such a manner to imply that there is racism. I realize that racism does exist at times below the surface of communities. However not all as you would have us believe. I am sure that there are some people in each community that would prefer that they only be surrounded by people just like there self. But as long as they do not impose it on the rest of the community it is not racism, it is personal preference. So give the race card a rest.

Answer 4

i live in a very mixed neighborhood,,, and i would say racisim is minimual here,,,,, at my work, there is some, not as much as a couple years ago, that racism was black against white,,,, with white females being the minority,,

i would say though, and this might even sound racist, lol, that in my neighborhood i am a minority, while whites are represented, for whatever reasons there are not many white blonde females nor any with waist length hair ,,,,,,,and i do get attention, positive, from the white, mexican, black, indian,,,,, asian males,,,, so maybe there is more racism here then i see/expeirence

Answer 5

yes. its more evident in areas where the majority is whites just because if you were in a minority community then....fighting is most likely not caused by racism but from something else... you see some minorities have the mentality of 'why is it still going on' (cause it is)...and when a "comment" is directed to them and it hurts...then thats when the separation b/w races get stronger...cause mothers will tell children.... friends will tell eachother of what happened to their aunt.....or to them.....TV says it... it goes down through generations

Answer 6

Pretty darn evident at my school the majority is white, and two black kids came to tour the building and spend a day at classes, and everyone kept staring like they were acid spitting aliens and three girls huddled together in fear asking ppl who passed them have you seen the black kids have you seen the black kids, I feel bad for them, but i understand if they won't enroll.

Answer 7

Not very evident..people mostly make supposedly innocent jokes about other races. You would have to have to look really hard to see racism in process.

Answer 8

Not much around central coast, California, though Oakland might be different.

Answer 9

it does not matter to most people, act like a man, be treated like a man. act like an idiot, then be treated like one, simple

Answer 10

Not at all, we don't let anyone in who isn't like us. Solves the problem.