You have some good points Silverado, I'll break up the two that stood out most to me:
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I don't know if any of you saw it, but 60 Minutes did their interview with Morgan Freeman awhile back. They covered a lot of different things in his life and such...but one thing that stuck with me was when they asked him about racism and how do you fix it. I won't quote him exactly, but roughly, he said racism can only be fixed if we stop talking about it. If we stop calling ourselves black men and just call ourselves men. He goes on to say that he has told people he is not a black man, he is a man that just happens to be of African-American decent.
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Yes! I think by defining ourselves as one thing or another we separate ourselves from being human, as if we're something more than that and at the end of the day that's the farthest from the truth you could be.
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I'll tell you what needs to happen...we need to start treating it like the orchards treats their harvests....whether they are reds, greens, goldens, etc, treat everyone of them as equals until they show you that they are not, then toss out the bad apples and keep the good ones.
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Amen to that as well, but race is something so incredibly ingrained in our culture that it will be an exceptionally lengthy process to eradicate. Good news is we can educate one another, but people (here comes the stubbornness part) have to be willing to get over themselves and be willing and take the risk to get to know about someone else, another people, another culture. I saw an extremely attractive female I took a Chicano studies course with last year today and she happens to be Chicana and also a CS major. One of my classmates and I were talking as she walked by after class and I mentioned her to him and the class I took with her, and we both talked about how only in an institution of higher learning is one afforded the time and place where they can expand their cultural horizons and understanding by taking classes that afford the experience of learning about others outside of their culture/race that make up the world around them, but majoring in a study where you lean more about "you and yours" is counterproductive to that experience. To each his and her own.