Ted Re..Can it be overcome? Of course, it can but it takes the exceptional person to do it and it gets easier with each passing generation.
There is no way I think it takes an exceptional person to overcome racism. Individually, honesty and hard work can easily overcome prejudices. As a group, however, it takes the collective of the group, to work together to overcome perceptions. Certainly, group leaders, such as Jackson and Sharpton, not only demanding jobs from companies, but also seeing to it that qualified, diligent workers show up to fill those jobs would overcome the perceptions. If industry finds those employees good hires, they would ask for more.
Of course it has to do with prejudices.....that's what's at the root of racism.
Racism is a prejudice, but not all prejudices are racist. There is a difference, and you tend to confuse the two.
More words that skirt the truth.
Why? You don't need gov. programs to end prejudices. As a group, you see what the prejudices are, and work to correct them. We all have weak points, the strong are the ones who spot the weak points and strive to overcome them, or do things which play to ones strengths.
Still more words that skirt the truth.
For my sons, it would be better if it was an exaggeration, however, our failing public schools have made the US import most of its talents during the nineties. Cheap labor from Mexico and the brains from the middle east India, Vietnam, China, etc. When the money runs out, they could well go back home; leaving us as a shell of what we were. |
