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Racism is at the root of it. The rest are just secondary. Understand that law enforcement is what society used to maintain law and order during slavery and all

by finid 11y ago

Racism is at the root of it. The rest are just secondary. Understand that law enforcement is what society used to maintain law and order during slavery and all through the Jim Crow days. The mindset has not changed.

yeukhon 11y ago
I challenge that. Where does racism come from? How does racism develop? We don't born with racism as an instinct, so it cannot be considered as "root" because the root is not racism, it is merely of symptom of something else. Pick WW2, a lot of Germans weren't racist and probably friends to many non-German people, but then they were convinced and after conformity kicked in many became racists.
- finid 11y ago
  If you don't believe that racism is at the root of it all, perhaps using "discrimination" instead of racism will make things clearer. You see, discrimination (or favoritism) is what humans do. It's innate and it takes a higher state of consciousness to not be influenced by it. Even that is no guarantee. Racism is discrimination at the level of racial groups. When it takes place within a racial group, it's plain old discrimination or nepotism. Before Northern Europeans came to these lands, discrimination was not a foreign concept. Neither was it where those Northern Europeans came from. After all, that was what caused most of them to leave in the first place. So when one race (native Americans) met another racial group (whites), discrimination became racism. It's what humans do. Animals, too, and just as violently. When black Africans were brought here, it's only natural that they were discriminated against. It's what humans do. We'll always find one reason or the other to discriminate. Be it skin color or religion. We can't help ourselves. What the Nazi's did in Germany, and what happened here (extermination of Indian tribes, slavery and Jim Crow), is when discrimination became state sponsored (it is now the law of the land). And society only gets to that point when the majority allows a small band of ignorant bums to impose their twisted ideas on everybody. This can lead to a very lengthy discussion, but it's enough at this point to state that yes, humans are born with this ability to discriminate. Racism is when it takes place between members of different racial groups.

by finid 11y ago

yeukhon 11y ago

I challenge that. Where does racism come from? How does racism develop? We don't born with racism as an instinct, so it cannot be considered as "root" because the root is not racism, it is merely of symptom of something else. Pick WW2, a lot of Germans weren't racist and probably friends to many non-German people, but then they were convinced and after conformity kicked in many became racists.

finid 11y ago
If you don't believe that racism is at the root of it all, perhaps using "discrimination" instead of racism will make things clearer. You see, discrimination (or favoritism) is what humans do. It's innate and it takes a higher state of consciousness to not be influenced by it. Even that is no guarantee. Racism is discrimination at the level of racial groups. When it takes place within a racial group, it's plain old discrimination or nepotism. Before Northern Europeans came to these lands, discrimination was not a foreign concept. Neither was it where those Northern Europeans came from. After all, that was what caused most of them to leave in the first place. So when one race (native Americans) met another racial group (whites), discrimination became racism. It's what humans do. Animals, too, and just as violently. When black Africans were brought here, it's only natural that they were discriminated against. It's what humans do. We'll always find one reason or the other to discriminate. Be it skin color or religion. We can't help ourselves. What the Nazi's did in Germany, and what happened here (extermination of Indian tribes, slavery and Jim Crow), is when discrimination became state sponsored (it is now the law of the land). And society only gets to that point when the majority allows a small band of ignorant bums to impose their twisted ideas on everybody. This can lead to a very lengthy discussion, but it's enough at this point to state that yes, humans are born with this ability to discriminate. Racism is when it takes place between members of different racial groups.