AlphaPhase
Well-Known Member
You hit a lot of nails on the head. I agree. American history x was one of my favorite movies, that was such a good movie and hit home on the problem. What's crazy is the day after I made this post, Roots was on the history channel the next day..ironicI think racism is slowely fading, kids aren't taught in schools about how to be racist. The culprits mostly are the parents, for example in the movie "American History X" it was shown clearly. The father passed down the negative view on (in this case) black people, and the son picked it up and was later a "skinhead".
Correct me if I'm wrong but the last slaves were like what, 200 years ago, so that's not really a long time ago if you take into the context of generations (about six, wikipedia states that one generation is about every 33 years). So after slavery dissapered it could be safe to say that three generations were still passing down their racial hate (because someone who remembered when slaves were still active could be still alive 70 years later) and it somewhat stayed up until now.
It will probably take another three generations to completely iradicate the idea of racism, especially in our times were slavery is completely illegal all over the world (thankfully).
But I've noticed that it also comes down to cultures. Take Eastern Europe for example, there is basically a handful of black people living here, hence why most people are just not used to people of another skin colour, so most of the time you get "black jokes" or some other asinine shit like that.