Do you think racism would disappear if we as a nation stopped acknowledging it?

Question

Wounds don't heal if you keep picking at it. Forgiveness is the most divine gift we have, why don't we as a society exersise it more? Dosen't evil only have power if you give some to it? I don't want my kids to grow up thinking they are bad or oppresive simply because they were not born a minority. Please help.

Answer 1

It will disappear for sure, because we are closer and closer to the truth and to knowledge.
And the truth is that the other race was the neanderthal so we are all the same race!

Answer 2

There's a big difference between acknowledging and obsessing. And between moderation and absolutism. Obsessing on race and gender hurts the ones who do the obsessing. There are relatively trivial forms of racism and sexism, and haveing a thcker skin can go a long way toward happiness. Hypersensitivity sets the bar of affirmation so high that it can never be reached, and the hypersensitive person has to go on, miserable and unaffirmed, and miss out on the affirmation that is there. Most people are good and kind, if given the chance. picking at others' moral nits is not giving them a chance. And it should be noted that just about everybody has some element of identity that someone else doesn't like, so when it gets down to the more trivial aspects of the "-isms", there are more opportunities for equal-opportunity insults, more occasions where everyone needs a thick skin.
Oh, I'm tired of writing. Bye

Answer 3

It's possible for a person to be prejudice and not know or acknowledge that prejudice. I don't know of many people who would purposely hate someone or something conciously. The fault of this nation is not in acknowledging prejudices but the way we acknowledge them. An example of unacknowledge prejucie would be watching a young child on their first day of kindergarden they make no diffrence in the children they play with white, black, mexican these children are all potential play mates to this young child perhaps because a child has a clean subconcious with no preprogramed stereo types, I don't really know the reason, but eventually a parent comes to pick up their child. When that parent begins to talk about who the child played with that day, and oh lets say that the child says "I played with Kendra" and the parents says "is Kendra black" or "Kendra must be black". This is a very simple analogy, usually prejudice is much much more subtle than this even. I think as a country we should admitt on both sides of the debate that, preference is taught and has to be unlearned. Start looking at people as people

Answer 4

I think Laurence Fishburn had the right idea last year when he said in an interview that we should do away with things like black history month. His point was that black people have done all kinds of great things and shouldn't single out just one month to celebrate it. He also said he doesn't see how were all supposed to be treat equal when his group keeps getting singled out.

I feel horrible for the bad things that have happened over the years to different mintority groups. What happened to them was in many cases horrible. But with that being said I refuse to feel gulity or like I owe anyone anything. I wasn't born when that stuff was going on a I sure as hell didn't have anything to do with it. My family comes from Germany, but that doesn't make me a Nazi. I have a proud heritage that I represent every day.

Everyone needs to take a look at when they are in life, and if you don't like it then work to change it. So to put an end to my very long answer YES I think racism would at the very least lessen if we stopped giving it so much attention.

Answer 5

No, i dont think it would. Because racism still lies in the heart. You have to change the persons heart not their thinking. By not acknowledging this is making people unaware and uneducated of the problem (especially those who dont experience racism more than others or who may have not experienced it at all). This is a problem in the world that will never go away or heal until everybody can truely undrestand the things everyone has gone through. And understand that no one is truely supperior. Although in this world unfortunately there is a superrior race and others have to fight a lil harder for their place in life. I am mixed with puerto-rican, blk and native american and i dont have hate in my heart for any other race for what they did to my ancestors even though those things were terrible! Those people have and will have to answer to somebody in their final calling. Ignore ignorance (tell ur children that).

Answer 6

No, unfortunately ignoring the problem would not make it go away. We certainly attempted that for a long time. Obviously the problem still exists. By ignoring it, you tacitly approve it - education is the only way to dispense with racism. That being said, there is no reason your children should grow up thinking they are bad or oppressive - unless they are. If they are not, if they are open to new experiences and have none of the racist biases, then there should not be a problem. Acknowledge that there ARE racists among us, but not being a member of a minority does not mean one is automatically a racist.

Answer 7

Yes this is true in some ways, BUT keeping with your analogy, there is going to be a scar to remind you about it. History repeats itself, and the best way to deal with this is by education and learning through experience. Most generalizations and sterotypes could be broken if most people were more educated and stepped outside of their own little bubble once in a while, and that goes for all races.

Answer 8

People are vulnerable to all kinds of fault and having a racial bias is one of these faults. Stopping to acknoowledge this will not eliminate racial tendencies. Rather, we should act positively and see every person as a human being worthy of respect. I could go further into the spiritual dimensions... which every man has, but that would be dwelling into topics not palatable to everyone.

Answer 9

Absolutely not. Racism will exist for many many generations unless we genetically modify our brains. It's inherent to fear the "other".

In other words, it's not a social issue, it's a biological one. Unless one is raised in an environment TRULY surrounded at all times by "otherness", you will make barriers.

Answer 10

No... I not to sound like a total pessimist or racist or anything like that, but I don't think it will ever disappear. I think that too many people hold on to the idea making that who they are. I think alot of people use race to define themselves and therefore racism will just never disappear.