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To: tejek who wrote (159081)	1/28/2003 10:36:52 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1582246

Racism includes many things. Sometimes it is full of hatred but peaceful. Sometimes it is deadly. Sometimes it has no hatred but it is having a lower opinion of another race. Sometimes it is just treating people differently because of their race. Affirmative action is racism by definition. Specifically the 2nd. rac·ism Audio pronunciation of racism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rszm) n. 1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. racist adj. & n. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved rac·ism Audio pronunciation of racism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rszm) n. 1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. racist adj. & n. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved dictionary.reference.com Not always. It can be and in this country used to be a lot more open. Always......even in Nazi Germany they tried to hide what they were doing from the bulk of the German people. Germany didn't hide racism, they made speeches and held rallies about how bad the Jews where and how they where the source of Germany's problems, and they passed laws limiting and controlling them and taking their property and otherwise abusing them. They did hide the death camps but they didn't hide the racism and the abuse. Japan was openly racist against the Chinese before WWII. They taught school children about how Chinese where inferior, and how the Japanese where the most superior race in the world. They might not have made these announcements at international conferences but they didn't make much of an effort to hide the idea. They made no effort to hide it within Japan. The Jim Crow laws where not hidden. Slavery was anything but hidden, not only did the South practice slavery they fought for it in Congress and fought to expand it, they got the fugitive slave laws passed and otherwise pushed the issue and publicly talked about it. Racism hides when it is a weak and/or hated idea. When it is popular and has power it no longer hides. Tim