Shocked & Disgusted

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Yikes......

Racism isn't a "sickness" or a "pathology." LOL. That's what people said a decade and more ago when they were still trying to understand racism as "bad people who say and do bad things that frighten and hurt people." That's why fools were focusing on tolerance and sensitivity training to "cure racism." If folks only learned about other people, they'd be nicer and racism would fall apart, right? No, so fools were baffled when people had their tolerance certification and were self-proclaimed "good people who don't hate anyone because we're all God's creatures" but there was STILL racism. How could that be? LOL...that's because racism is a structure that has permeated institutions and is reinforced through individual actions and structural processes.

That's why I don't call PEOPLE racist because a lot of people think that's about a pathology of "bad people." Instead, you can be the most loving person in the world and reinforce the racist structure and you can be the most hateful person in the world and reinforce the racist structure. It's about sense of group threat and racial identity processes. THAT is what American history, including this election and social issues such as welfare and immigration, has taught us. Self-proclaimed "good people" and "Godly people" suddenly turned crazily intolerant to defend what they considered to be their turf and their resources.

Just saw this and am co-signing.