Cottontop3000 said:
To me, that does mean something. That means, to me, that even racists do have redeeming qualities, though I dread saying that. Shit, that is hard to admit, or even to believe, but I think that that is how I should look at it.
Well, thank you for admitting that. Many, if not most people tend to think and/or imply that ALL racists are redneck, backwoods, dirty, uneducated, poor, blue-collar white people who barely merit the term "human".
But just ain't so. There are highly educated, highly intelligent, wealthy, etc., white people who are also racists. They're usually, however, insulated (or insulate themselves!) from having to deal with those that they don't like or wnat to deal with ...and often that's black people! Sorry, but that's racism, too. ...even if most people don't recognize it or, for that matter, see it.
Not long ago, in AARP Magazine, they had an article about racism. In it were various studies on the physiological reactions of racists and non-racists. In all of the studies, pictures were shown of various black people and in EVERY case, even in those who CLAIMED that they weren't racist, the reactions were of fear and dislike and distrust. As you can see, from those studies, it's something inside us ...sure, maybe only cultural... but it's in each of us.
And ya' know what's interesting? In some, tho' not all, blacks that were tested, they, too, showed a slight rise in fear, dislike and distrust when showed pictures of the same black people!! Seems even some blacks don't like/distrust blacks.
Is it all cultural? No, I don't think so. I think it's much like chickens that ain't never seen a fox .....but throw one in a hen house and all the chickens go ape-shit!
All animals in nature are segregated by choice. I know of no specie that it willingly integrates with any other specie. Oh, sure there are symbiotic relationships, but it's not the same thing, is it!
I also know of no human society/nation that is peacefully integrated with several different cultures, do you?
Baron Max