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.
How do you know?
Individually, honesty and hard work can easily overcome prejudices.
They can? Maybe in WI but not in other places. Just for the record, MN and WI are definitely very different than other places. Racism in those states is not what it is in other states.
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.
I commend you on your idealism; however, the reality is often very different.
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.
I do? I am not sure how you know that.
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