why do americans never get over the "black/white" issues?

Question

i juss wanted to know, am not being racsit or anything, so please....

Answer 1

just humans nature

Answer 2

All I hear from Americans is that they are cosmopolitan and the most ethnically diverse. Statistically as a Nation maybe they are "the melting pot" of the world. However in practice each ingredient is being melted in its own little pot.

The majority of america is segregated into districts almost entirely for Whites, Blacks, Latin Americans, Asian etc. Maybe there are a few major city areas where there is some integration but my feeling is that this is more to do with population density than any real desire to diminish prejudicial ethnic ignorance.

My view of America in this regard is that it is still governed by a Racist majority that hide behind manufactured statistics and symbollic "elevations" of Black Americans into influential public roles, not yet the paramount role though will that ever happen? Statistically it should of by now!

Eventually I think these ignorances will subside but it will be a slow process encumbered with resistances and claws clinging to the cold comfort of the past. Lets hope it happens before it causes violence to spill onto the streets there again.

Answer 3

It goes way beyond skin colour in my opinion. I think it goes back to territory. The American Indians called us Paleface and the White man. Were they Racist? Hmm! I think more it was a way of portraying the invader so to speak. Every Indian would know what a white man was and would automatically hate all white men. If you are asked to describe someone you are asked what colour was the skin. Skin colour used to be a very good indication of where you come from, but now it is very hard to guess with all the migration that has taken place over the last few centuries. We are still territorial as a race and so therefore will object to any other skin colour within ones own territory. That is my theory, and just to let you know I am not a racist.

Answer 4

Some people think of life on this earth as a huge race hence the phrase 'race' referring to a person's color. In America, people are classified by their race which is why people need to state our race on everything we apply for. Race is another issue because few blacks are still fighting for slavery restitutions and to have what every other race that has ever been wronged received like the Native Americans got reservations & their land, the Jews got paid for what happened for the Holocaust but where is the restitutions for blacks?

Answer 5

i know what you mean, its annoying isnt it! sometimes i feel like it comes between me and my black friends (cos it gets drilled into their heads that white people are racist against them). i am a white english person but i think we have the problem in england too, just not as much. i think its worse in america cos of all the extreme stuff thats happened there - theres been a lot of racism over the past century, and its been in the media a lot with people like martin luthor king etc (not that this is bad attention, he was a good man, just that he gets a lot of attention). also it seems like there actually still is quite a bit of racism in america, sometimes on the news you see a black guy getting beaten up by white police for not really doing anything. im sure theres racism against white people too i just dont hear about it. i think its hard for them to get over it cos theyre generally polite people and theyre worried about saying something that might offend some one else, so for example if a white american is talking to a black person they may not want to talk about racism, for fear of offending them. in the same way, in some states an estate agent will show black families black communities and white families white communities when showing them houses they could buy in case those families are racist. this just creates stigma around black/white and stops people from feeling comfortable. as to why some people are still racist - i dont know, i think its cos theyre ignorant and stupid - they need to empathise better. (although in some situations fear of a race can be understandable, for example if you live in a little chinese village and only see chinese people, then some indians come in and kill everyone.. youll probably be scared of indians!) anyway.. i think and really hope people will get over it in future. it seems like it is getting better tho - there are more inter racial couples and stuff. black girls are hot!

Answer 6

because every time that they have to talk about their families and ancestors then they learn what happened to them, it hurts. at the end of the day you have to understand that they are human beings and even though this events happened years ago, we cannot excuse the fact that they did happen.
if you look at it from their point of view, it happened to a member of their own family, just think of those things happening to a member of your own family and then you may understand what they go through.
yes fine they can forgive but please, you cannot expect everyone to forget. it will always be a part of their family history and not something that can be wiped out easily with a word of sorry.
you forget that a lot of people were moved from their own families from whatever countries in africa they were taken from. now it is easy for you to trace your family tree if you ever wanted to but think about them, they cannot because they dont even know what country their relatives came from.
am not saying that they should hate all am saying is understand what they are going through from their point of view.

Answer 7

Because race is one thing we can NEVER avoid, and long as there are different races on the face of the earth.Because we are flawed humans, the race card will always be played by someone at sometime everywhere in the world.

Answer 8

Personally i think that it depends on what part of the states they are from as too their racial tolerances and also what sort of person are they most Americans i have met are black and also very clued up as to "black/white intolerance" and see there fellow countymen as illiterate bumpkins ya now what i mean bubba.

Answer 9

They are real issues that exist that's why. Racist issues have played and do play a big part in the past and present world, why are people so afraid of it? I generally think that people that are afraid to talk on it have bigger issues with race.

Answer 10

Because the legacy of the whip and the lynch mob , still is an open wound that will take a long time to heal.

Answer 11

Because most people in this country seem to have been raised to put skin color before everything else. Though more and more people are getting past it, it will never completely happen unfortunately.