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To: TimF who wrote (158401)	1/19/2003 11:30:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574685

Your position assumes that racism ends with the victim but just like alcoholism and other dysfunctions, its passed down one generation to the next. Alcoholism is genetically inherited. It's believed that there is a pregenetic disposition for liking the taste and the effects of alcohol; however, that in and of itself does not guarantee a person will become an alcoholic. However, what seals their fate.....actually the fate of the children of a person living with an alcoholic parent [alcoholism usually skips a generation] is that the dysfunctions of the alcoholic are inherited by their children. I'm sure you've heard of the term, dry drunk.....someone who has the mannerisms of an alcoholic but doesn't get drunk. Well, that's because they pick up the behavior from the alcoholic parent but were repelled by the drunken behavior of the alcoholic parent......so they don't drink but behave like an alcoholic in the world. <<< Being a victim of racism is not, it requires new discrimination.>>>> No, it doesn't. Children learn from their parents.....if a parent is scarred by racism and they behave in a particular way to a person from another race especially if that person is the dominant race, then the child picks up on that behavior. In addition, alcoholism, drug usage, lack of motivation etc., qualities characteristic of an underclass, can be attributed at least in part to racism and are passed down generation after generation. I think the sixties began what has become a time to break that cycle. And its happening, one little bit at a time.......one more minority kid going to college, one more person of color starting their own business, one more black making it as a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, etc. ted