Reply #67: On a subconscious level, we are more comfortable with what is more familiar to us. [View All]

[Apollo11]

If we grew up around white people, then we are pre-disposed to being more comfortable around white people. So we have a built-in tendency to be less comfortable with people with a different skin color.

That's why it is overly simplistic for white people like Ronald Reagan to pretend that they are "color blind" and somehow immune from racism and that discrimination is something done by other people.

Very rarely will you hear someone admit to discriminating on the basis of race, but minorities know from their everyday lives that discrimination is all around.