How will we know that Racism is dead?

[newinnm]

Some say that racism is alive and well and as prevalent as ever. Some say that racism is around but not as prevalent. How will we know when racism has diminished to a point that people of color will get the same treatment as whits by the majority of persons.


-NNNM

[Forkboy]

1. Look at the calender.

When the millennium starts with a 3 instead of a 2 we might be half way there.

[steelmania75]

2. There will always be racism....

[newinnm]

5. Then...

People of color will never be treated the same as whites?

-NM

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. Racism will never die. It will always be around in one form or another. Always. n/t

[Ron Green]

4. I do believe it's wired in to our scared little brains.

As long as we think there's an "other," we'll be afraid of it.

[BlooInBloo]

8. That's definitely one of the cuter responsibility-evasion techniques we've come up with...

Over the years.

[customerserviceguy]

10. There are all kinds of things wired in our brains

but ethics has evolved to deal with them. We are not condemned to live with racism forever.

Just the changes that have happened in my lifetime convince me of that.

[NCDem60]

6. That's easy.

When everyone in earth is the same light brown color. Until then it's here to stay.

[XemaSab]

9. And then we'll find something else to kill each other over

n/t

[obliviously]

11. R.I P?

[misanthrope]

34. In all likelihood...

...as has been shown in Ireland, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

[POAS]

13. Someone, somewhere will

find some fear to exploit and the "other" will always be an easy target to exploit.

The exploiters will always find some difference to define "the other" for those inclined to blame others for their plight.

[old mark]

7. When all the people on earth are dead.

[notesdev]

12. When we all stop seeing white people and black people

and simply see people.

And 'all' doesn't mean just the other guy.

[Posteritatis]

14. When the phrase "some of my best friends are _____" or its equivalents stop showing up. (nt)

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. What makes you think that racism is purely by whites?

All groups have it to some extent

[Forkboy]

16. But only white racism is institutionalized here.

Someone being racist to me won't stop me from getting a loan, buying a car or a house, etc.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. You clearly don't get around much

[Forkboy]

18. Ok, tell me what I'm missing.

Tell me how black on white racism is institutionalized?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

24. More binary thinking

Institutionalized is not the only method that should be considered. A better approach is if in a locality does the local group in power discriminate against other groups by race. For example, oriental racism, against anyone not in their subgroup. Its more common than you think.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

19. We will know because everyone of every race will be dead.

[MrScorpio]

20. When the Moon is in the seventh house

and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Then peace will guide the planets
and love will steer the stars.

[oedura]

21. When we crossbreed to the point...

...that everyone is the same exact color.

But then people will still want to kill each other for their religious differences, so it won't really make any difference.

[Strong Atheist]

25. !

:thumbsup:

[DatManFromNawlins]

31. Yep

North America is a majority non-white continent. More and more whites are marrying Latinos and blacks and asians. I suppose that it will only really end when enough non-whites have accumulated enough actual wealth and power to affect the system. Hell, even the Bushes have non-white members of their family.

[Fuzz]

22. If it isn't racism, it will be something else.

[-..__...]

23. When a black man becomes president.

:smoke:

[LostInAnomie]

26. My honest answer, in about 40 years...

... American racism will largely be a thing of the past. By then, most of the people that lived through the struggle for integration and the civil rights movement will be dead. There is a huge difference in how that generation and later generations view race. When they are gone, there won't be anyone around to remember a time when integration wasn't the norm, or that haven't lived their whole life along side people of other races.

I work with kids, and it is amazing to see how their attitudes about race differ from those of people even 10 years older. The idea of race barely even occurs to them.

[pipi_k]

27. Racism is here to stay

IMO


along with a whole host of other "isms"

Because we're human beings and that's just the way it is.


Some group or another always has to feel it's superior to another group. I mean, just look at DU for an example. Don't most of us here feel we're somehow smarter...more moral....BETTER....than the "morans" at, say, FR?

[proteus_lives]

28. There will always be a "reason" to hate each other.

Be it race, sex, tribe, religion, politics, sports team, orientation, etc. etc.

Sadly, it's part of the human condition.

[marshall]

29. One sign will be when a black man can be asked for ID and not feel intimidated by a white cop

It's really a two way street, and the realization of change will have to be universal.

[applegrove]

30. I look to TV advertising as a sign that things are getting better.

[TheKentuckian]

32. Eventually, we'll carry it over to sentient machines, then aliens, and then Humans again

returning in new forms from the seas and space.

But on the good side the bulk of the traditional stuff will be gone in a century, for the most part. Between assimilation and different and bigger fish to fry I think we'll see a gradual but substantial reduction.

[Mimosa]

33. Humans seen to have built-in tribal instincts

Systemic institutionalised racism as it once existed in the West is pretty much finished. But many groups align wth their fellow blacks, whites, hispanics, arabs, whatever.

[noamnety]

35. A start point will be when statistics show equity

instead of wild discrepancies in education, unemployment rates, income, access to health care, arrests and sentences, etc.