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Why are white people in the United States so racist against black people?
In every other place that blacks are in such as Canada, Europe, Australia, and in Africa they are as prosperous as the rest of the population but in America they are poorest.
18 Answers
- BobberKnobLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Everyone's racist. Most Blacks I know I more racist towards Mexicans than Whites. And vice-versa.
And they don't hide it like the pansy P.C. liars in the media/politics.
- KojakLv 71 decade ago
If you really believe this.....I can only surmise you have not traveled the world much.... Unfortunately "racism" is alive and well EVERYWHERE..... the United States and white people have no monopoly on racism....
I worked as a bouncer and bartender in an all black night club..... eight years....... I saw anti-white racism up close and personal..... NO ethnic group does not have racists in them....
The Koreans hate the Japanese....the Japanese hate the Koreans.... most Caribbean islanders HATE natives from other islands EVEN when the skin color is the same.... almost all Caribbean islanders hate Jamaicans..... When slavery was abolished natives from India were imported to the Caribbean.... and treated like slaves..... Light skinned Iranians (Aryans) look down on dark skinned Iranians from southern Iran..... Pakistanis hate Indians......
I have been around the world several times and never been anywhere where racism does not exist.... Ask the Moro's in New Zealand about racism....or the Aborigines in Australia....they were slaughtered by the thousands and still hold inferior positions in society
America is actively working on it's racism problems....passing laws....holding people accountable for their actions....cleaning up our problem....see these other nations doing that ??
- ?Lv 41 decade ago
I don't believe I'm racist against black people but I know that at times I've been ignorant which could have easily been viewed as being racist. Either way I think you are asking a question and then stating your own answer. It seems you think that racism from whites is making black people poor. This might be true. I really don't know but next time please be straight with your question.
- Jim JLv 51 decade ago
Some White people are Clearly racist, but so are some Black people. In other parts of the advanced world you see poverty and prosperity within all races. I think in the US though Blacks got the better deal but are failing to capitalise on it.
However Black people seem to use 'their' poverty as an excuse for their violent and criminal behaviour. It is true that in proportion Black people are more likely to commit crime and be in Prison than white people.
Its not that White people dislike Blacks people due to race, they dislike the perpetual Chip on their shoulder the Black man carries around with him,the affirmative action,the ghetto culture, the cultural and social vulgarity, usually influenced by the likes of al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson who continually blame Black peoples underachievement's on White Racism, which is simply not true.
In most humans their is a protection mode, and when you fear something you fear what you know about the person you are dealing with, that is why White people fear the volatility of Black people, some of them could be classed as nothing more than feral beasts. So before anyone claims the Racist card they should ask themselves objectively why do people think they way about them as they do.
The problems of the Black community is a problem for them alone and not anyone else and to explain it through Racism is now just an old excuse.
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- PygarLv 51 decade ago
Well, a lot of people are post-racist; they simply don't give a rat's rump one way or another any more about race. But instead of letting this colorblindness grow, the liberals try to make things worse-- condescending social programs, vague promises of "reparations" to those who were never enslaved, from those who never enslaved... that sort of thing. As the race card keeps shrinking, they wave it more wildly. A solved problem is not a source of opportunity, so you can bet racism will never end on their watch.
- 1 decade ago
America is full of opportunities! Maybe our welfare system has something to do with the problem. In America you can get free food, assistance,housing & education if you don't work & make wages above the poverty level...all @ the expense of the working class. Look up the statistics & that will answer your question.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Umm... who lied to you. It's MUCH worse in Europe. Don't you see FIFA's main slogan is "Say No to Racism"
Blacks are called monkey's in places in Europe, and black soccer players get death threats ALL the time. Beasley (an african american) had his car blown up in Europe. Have whites in America start blowing up cars yet?... NO
- 4 years ago
nicely for starters whites had blacks as slaves in simple terms because of fact they couldnt do their very own artwork. And maximum are sterotypical in the direction of hispanics. and stop whining approximately it existence isnt basic.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Study American history. And actually Native Americans are the poorest race in America.
- 1 decade ago
Lol those places hardly have any black people. our black population tops the entire canadian population as a whole.