why r people racist????/?

Answer 1

1. They are racist through fear of differences and fear of the unknown. The most entrenched, vehement and extreme statements by white racists are made in all-white communities that fear an influx of other people.

2. Here's an example that not many people know or remember. In the 1950s, in the UK, when immigration from the Caribbean was just underway, there was a lone voice campaigning against immigration in the British parliament. The man concerned was Sir Cyril Osborne MP, who represented (what was then) the Louth constituency, which was composed of the towns of Cleethorpes and Louth, and neighbouring villages (in Lincolnshire). This area had no non-white immigrants at all, and so there were no race "problems" to complain of, and race was not an issue for anyone locally (I lived there).
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/caribbean/journeys/legislation3.htm
http://www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/policy-paper-45.html
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jacari/history/index.html
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL3017022004

3. Although he is not widely remembered [Smethwich by-election winner, Peter Griffiths, and, of course, Enoch Powell are more well-known], Sir Cyril Osborne is highly thought of in international racist circles. See the webpages of these US and Australian right-wing racist websites.
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2006/09/should_he_have.php
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/buchanan.cgi/Conservatism/Prophets_Without_Ho.writeback
http://www.alor.org/Volume1/Vol1No5.htm

Answer 2

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