Originally posted on 05/01/2011:
I've got news for you Oilman, 95 % of the World is racist. Racist in a innocence manner for, maybe, about half of the people. Many do not believe they are; some, definitely are. Yet many are not aware that they indeed, are racist.
All you need is the fitting circumstances. Say, if the Blacks of the World had been the dominating race, going back 2500 years ago, instead of the Whites, Blacks living White lives, and Whites living through Black lives:
We would have the same set of circumstances as we have today. Major difference being, Blacks would have the same perception as we have of them, today. That is: Better educated [ leading to financial advantages ], cultures still not mixing, in more trouble with the law, and an attitude that [ sometimes] we deserve more respect because of the abuse and terror your Black majority put us through for a couple centuries.
Humans feel comfortable around their own color. A fact of nature. Even the animal world is racist. You don't see panthers hanging with lions, or elephants parlaying with cape buffalo. No color hangup with animals, but it's that relaxed, secure, comfortable feeling you have with your own natural kind.
The point being: We are all living, mostly, in a racist society!
Humans: We either hide our racism, deny it, exercise it, or, like the majority of us, do not realize it.