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Originally Posted by Barcs  I couldn't agree more. Race is a huge focus of the media, and the whole hate crime thing made it worse. Anytime a crime happens, the first thing everyone mentions is the race of the assailant and the victim. Then people are punished more if they are different. You've got the media, who is obsessed with race, and then you have the civil rights activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who turn everything into a racial issue. This needs to stop. Racism has been prolonged for an unnecessarily long time. Being a cylon, I'm sure this hits close to home for you.  |
I do agree that those 2 make their livings off of racism, real or otherwise. It is important to add and keep in mind that some white people do the same thing.
A couple main reason people are racists is to blame others for problems, rally people or to vent your frustrations and anger. Hitler blamed Jews, blacks, gypsis, communists, etc for all their problems and got the people to rally behind him.
During the black death, Jews were burned as people thought it would appease God and make him stop the plague. It also let them vent their anger, fear and frustration of their situation.
This isn't just used for race, whenever something bad happens people look to blame others, especially politicians. Politicans blamed Wall Street for the recession, they are partially to blame but politicians are just as much or more. Everyone knew that Wall Street is reckless and history showed if you give them no supervision and restraint they'd cause their own destruction.
What did Politicians do? Strong deregulation, if they had proper regulation it wouldn't have happened. Do they admit that, apologize, nope, they just blame others.
Fuld, CEO of Lehman blamed short-sellers for his bank failing.