Why is it that some people think because you are not of their skin tone 50% of the time. (Personally I get pretty brown in the summer.) you can’t possibly understand the effects of racism. It shows the naivety of the people that are the loudest in this respect. some young Il- liberalists may be surprised to learn that people born before 2000 have actually lived in diverse cultures and have had life long relationships with people from all over the world in many cultures. BIPOC and LGBTQ2R+ people and the intersection thereof aren’t the only people that are discriminated against. Poor people, homeless , people (of all ethnicity), Jews, Italians, Latinos, Asian, Eastern European…Pick one and you will find prejudice from outside and from within. The reason is because prejudice is a human condition. It relates more to open-mindedness than it does race, religion or creed. It is representative of someone’s moral fiber, not their skin tone. Often it is a survival instinct in small communities that fear the unknown, so they go on the offensive (not unlike small groups of well intentioned individuals that classify large groups of people into one stereotype) Stop trying to make everyone else believe what you believe and respect other cultures. Societal evolution doesn’t happen overnight, it takes millennia. Give yourselves maybe 15-20 years and if your ideals and viewpoints haven’t evolved, then you missed the whole point of the journey.
For more thoughts on open-mindedness, refer this essay I published in 2009. http://rosenblath.ca/wordpress/2009/05/peace-through-open-mindedness
