Totally agree - Diversity is the key.

I take issue with the assertion that most of us still dwell in it (racism). I don't think you know what you're saying.

Racism serves no purpose. End it and we can live together more peacably. We as a people need to grow up.

I'm sorry, but I'm guilty of judging people by how they drive and how many tickets and accidents they have on record. #drivingsnob #imanexcellentdriver

Yes, I hate being told that I'm part of a massive historical issue because of the colour of my skin. I've had people verbally attack me because I'm white and then more so because of my English accent. It sucks. Sure I feel really bad about how society has been and is descriminatory, (but to be held personally responsible and by strangers, is very difficult!) I've always gone out of my way to be educated about differences too and try and be part of a solution not the problem, but I go by the following meme...

I don't see color as something we do to ourselves as much as something we do to others. An immature self image leaves us feeling inadequate. We wrongly try to elivate our sad selves by deminishing others.

Personally - come to my facebook page.. I am a musician and activist who has fought this my whole life.. My friends are all the same and many of them roots Rastafarian and activists .. Sometimes i deal with it by directly addressing issues with people .. sometimes by ignoring it into obvlivion .. Unfortunately the rest of the world isn't quite ready to forget so sometimes you have to face it head on.. Really wish people would wake up and understand !!

This is a good approach if you are on the right side of the dominant cultural privilege. If you are holding the shitty end of the racial stick where you have to live, you view things from a somewhat different perspective. It may be childish in theory, but when it's you on the bottom for no reason other than your color, it's not theoretical. I agree with your point. Good luck getting rid of it, except in your own life, and even then it's harder than you think. The point of racial privilege it's you don't even realize when you are exerting it. I wish it wasn't that way. Lots of things I wish.

We are all different shades of the same thing. there is no black or white. there are much more important things to think about.

Yup. I'm telling you, one day all humans will all be the same shade. I may not live to see it, but then what are all these racists gonna do?? Hopefully attitudes will have changed by then. I want to see a Netflix special or something where they sit these people down and show them their genetics and ancestry - the looks on their faces would be priceless when they find out we all mostly come from the same place. I don't have time for that ignorance in this era. There's no excuse for it.

Ohhhh Finchi, you're getting me started! Especially irritating is the way Americans (of all 'colors' ) look at this.

This could (as usual) get lengthly..

When people ask about my heritige I usually anwer mostly Irish with some Czech and French. Nobody bats an eye. If, however my French great grandmother had come from Ethiopia instead of France, I would be considered "black". How crazy is that? It gets worse than this old attitudinally held-over Jim Crow crap.

Same answer but applying the same social 'rules' prevalent in our sick society in the case of African ancestry:

'I'm mostly Irish with some Czech and French'. From the Franco-Americans would come a frenzied indictment! WHAT DID YOU SAY? ARE YOU ASHAMED OF BEING FRENCH??!!!

Poor (rich) Tiger Woods got this treatment after acknowledging/including his Asian ancestry and that was his mother, not two generations hence..

It really is daunting to see so many people who already have an irrational stigma associated with their racial heritage be so severely complicit in their own oppression! Why? This was the dream of America to be 'one from many'. Today, the attitude, instead of improving among many, has given way to political and social forces that seek to separate us.

We are all African, incidentally, if one goes back far enough in the human family. It is no great mystery why people spending more generations in sunny parts of the planet have more melanin protecting them than people dwelling in overcast areas, where they are lighter. Color isn't the only racial (environmental) attribute. Why people with huge rib cages and lungs live in higher altitudes, or people with long legs and great height live in the tall grass, where those who spot predators first and run the fastest survive or those who climb trees in rainforests are lighter skinned and smaller, etc.

O. K. Finchi, yeah, you struck a nerve.. Rant over.

I agree. I often wonder if it is perpetuated, in part, in the simple need to describe someone to another person. Finding the words to refer to share a story for example - ' I was hanging out with Madeline. You know Madeline? I go shopping with her sometimes, with the beautiful curly hair?" - but all to often, the easiest adjective that comes to mind is black, white, brown, asian, etc. We need a list of adjectives beyond color and weight. Much better choices could be classy, laid back, outgoing, bubbly, shy, quick witted.

If you’re tired of it, imagine for one second how sick POC are of living it?
Claiming Colorblindness doesn’t help or fix anything.is anyone “guilty” of past transgressions? No, but you are responsible for your part in dismantling privilege today.

Yeah, that worked really well in the 1930s in Germ,any. I am still suffering from the consequences of that strategy. How about we let our action take care of changing our prejudices. It's more work but will eventually work all the kinks out of our Weltanschaung.

I can't wait for the day when we just judge people based on their merits alone. As far as I'm concerend nothing else matters.

It doesn't matter what we think..it's how the world perceives us, and for some weird reason, white people are currently the top status in color.

No matter where I've lived, to my shock, people still judge you by your skin color..even in Haiti where almost everyone is coal black, and very African. If your skin is lighter, you are often assigned "elite" status.

This just a side comment but with DNA sampling a lot of us are finding out we are not what we seem

I am color blind..... nuff said

I don't approve of prejudice of any kind and agree it's childish. Not many individuals in this group seem to dwell in racism, FinchiMcQ. You might be preaching to the choir here.

I have learned to see skin tone as a superficial spectrum from light to dark. My brother got his genome and our ancestors come from North Africa. My understanding is that the human species as a whole originated in the heart of Africa and that Africans today are their direct descendants. When a splinter group formed from that original group and headed North, I have genes from that second group and I am Jewish, Greek, German.

There's no need for prejudice, we're all related. And the only reason I see for classifying anything is for further understanding.

Curious what you experienced here that made you post this.

What piss off the religious especially the racist religious is science has proved that we ALL are descened from from one african male 60 thousand years ago and one african female over a 200,000 years ago . For this is enough for them to hold oh to their delusion

I notice colour who doesnt - I am not colour blind but it doesnt affect how I am with anybody if someoen is ok with me I ma ok with them - Lots of twisted peopel of all colours and to call white people white, is weird I am only white when I have a shock or are sick, I am sort of yellowy browny pink.

I agree, except for cultural standards. Sadly for me, there is only one culture, the industrial culture. Before that there were many, each in response to the environment in which it evolved.

This never happens to me FTF.