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End of the day what is so bad about racism?

I get to chose what vegatables i like and what car i do or dont like base on there performence so why i cant do that with poeple. End of the day i wuldnt let a white persan cook me indian food

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  • 6 years ago

    Racism is bad because teaches people to make judgments about others on the basis of the way they look or assumptions that they might make about people from different cultures. Racism allows people to justify all sorts of indignities and horrors to be visited on people from other cultures by saying that the other people are inferior or somehow less than human in some way.

    Just imagine growing up and every person you meet makes a comment about you solely based on your race.

    You're in kindergarten and a girl asks you "why is your skin is so dark." (you don't ask about her skin color because you were exposed to other races before now.)

    3rd grade: it's because you "cooked" for too long.

    5th grade: "I heard black people can't swim"

    You transfer into 6th grade from another state the teacher already announced you'll be coming from Hawaii and the students expect you to look a certain way. One boy called dibs before you've even arrived, but once he sees your black he says "never mind you can have her."

    7th grade: everyone asks if all black people really love chicken and watermelon.

    9th grade: you're always introduced as "my black friend"

    10th grade: girls compare there tans to your skin and say "i'm almost as black as you"

    11th grade: Teachers ask you specifically if you're the first person in your family who's graduated from high school/ planning to go to to college.

    college you speak in complete sentences (nothing special) and people say "wow you don't act black"

    Job interviews: The interviewer does a double take, rushed through the interview, or says "you sounded different on the phone." "no i sound the same. i just dont look how you thought i'd look."

    Adult life: people keep touching your hair. you're pretty for a black girl. I've never been with a black girl, do you want to be my first? Do you only sleep with black guys? Why is your hair like that? Can you twerk? Do you like Drake?

    No one asked to be born a certain race yet POC can't go one day without having to hear a racist stereotypical comment.

    P.S. I haven't even started on systemic racism and oppression. this is just racism every POC endures because it's taught by parents to children. (my best friends dad would sing little racist rhymes to her as a child about black people and hispanics)

  • 6 years ago

    Absolutely nothing. Racism is mindless concept employed by liberals to draw attention to themselves and criticize anyone who disagrees with them. When they run out of intelligent things to say, then they start calling everyone else a racist. It is a well establish strategy used by liberals for many decades.

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