I can't begin to describe how black people and white people fear, misunderstand, and have negative expectations of one another here in the US. Black parents give their teenage sons "the talk", about behaving in an exaggeratedly respectful way towards the police (and towards white adults in general). I know white women, my own age, who will, out of fear, cross the street and walk on the other side when they see a group of black people, or even one black person, standing on the sidewalk (footpath), no matter what the black people look like or what they're doing - hey, they're black, they must be about to commit a violent crime!
Why can't people get it through their heads that there's only one "race" on this planet - the HUMAN race?
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Date: 2015-06-25 12:09 pm (UTC)Why can't people get it through their heads that there's only one "race" on this planet - the HUMAN race?