Excellent posts...
Go and live in South Africa with SYN for a year. If you come back as a non-racist I will be very surprised.
Nope, won't happen. Culture is not the same as skin tone. So i STILL grasp for the logic of racisim, as how on earth does skin color make you who you are? Yes, i understand how some ignorant folks may classify on the basis of skin color... but...
EXAMPLE:
Imagine a child the same skin color as you. Now, imagine he is a boy. Now, this boy is in school, about 8 years of age, and wears pink shoes because this is the only color shoes his family wears (humor me.) He is generally picked on by the other students, same as his cousins and brothers and sisters. They all wear pink shoes, the whole lot of them. I will not comment on his family as far as if his parents were good parents or not, use your imagination - fit or unfit, does not really matter, although the family background is far less than Millionare Row as most of this huge "Pink" wearing family lives in a bad area with a high crime rate.
The children make fun of him because of the color he is wearing, and also because he is thought of as a "nerd," and he and his entire family are called The Pinks. Soon, the torturing becomes too much to bare, so he begins to manifest himself in anger at school, eventually acting out these emotions of pain, repression, anger and grief, which in turn changes the way he lives as an adult. Some of his family rise above this and do not become as emotionally damaged as the boy did, and others take the abuse much worse.
NOW, was it is the color pink that was the culprit, or rather was it the way he was treated and the way he grew up?
