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Originally posted by jubilance1922
Sorry honey, but I'm not talking about the average Joe definition, cause we all know that the average American is not up to speed...
People who devote their lives to studying race in America have concluded that racism is more than just being prejudice or discriminatory, its a systematic application of these practices by a majority onto a minority. If you don't like that definition, you don't have to use it. But perhaps my definition of racism is a bit different than yours, seeing as I'm a minority who has experienced this behavior on a firsthand basis...
But what the hell do I know? I'm only a college grad...
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Maybe I see things differently because, maybe because there isn't the same level of historical weight to racism up here...
The thing is I don't see racism as something that only happens to minorities... just because I have seen people suffer from racism in contexts other than a sociey power structure... for example if I was to believe that "blacks" are better basketball players strictly because of "race" then that would be a racist belief... the same would be true if my friend Mat held the same belief (he being "black") then he would also be holding to a racist belief. Both of us would be holding to a belief that a "race" is superior to another... which by definition is "racist" (or at least the way I've always been taught).
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