Bernie Sanders on Andrew Gillium and Stacey Abrams: Many Whites 'Uncomfortable' Voting for Black...

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77. Yes. I wish we could discuss this subject more on here

The nuances. Instead of it being a "black and white" issue, no pun intended.

Racism is such a vile extreme accusation. So because of that, no one who calls themselves liberal, or a Democrat, ever would admit, even to themselves, that they harbour any tiny bit of that. That even how you are raised, or from what community, has no affect on you in that regard.

Personally, I think most everyone has a bit of racism in them. Black, white, Asian, you name it. But "racism" is the wrong word for the scope it has come to be defined as. To put it another way....everyone feels uncomfortable, at least at first, in the company of people that are outside of their normal community. Whether its atheists in church, or vegans in a burger joint. Even between boys and girls when we were young. And that includes any person, of any color, who are raised ensconced primarily in their own community for their youth, and then leave that community, and are surrounded by people outside of their own culture they were raised in.

I was raised in an overwhelmingly white town in Canada. Its not unusual. As a child, if I ever saw a black person, it was an unusual event. They looked "different". But it was not because I HATED them for the colour of their skin. It was simply that I was not used to seeing human beings look or talk the way I was used to. And that experience did not mean that, as I matured, and lived in more cosmopolitan communities, that I not only was comfortble in mixed company, but made friends with people of all races and genders.

If we can't even admit we can get uncomfortable in the presence of what we see initially as the "other" and immediately jump to the word "racist", then how do we ever move forward? It does not mean we can't eventually mature, and get enlightened and completely comfortable with folks of all cultures and races.

I think this is a place to be able start the discussion, separating the normal human response to 'different', and an overt hatred and belief in a supremacy of other races over your own.