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Originally Posted by Bond
Well, I suppose it depends upon how you are forming your own view on racism. If you are basing your opinion on mainstream national news, I would agree that race is still a prominent issue in our society. If you are basing your opinion on first hand experience of living in different parts of the country, then I think you might draw a different conclusion.
We will obviously never completely move beyond racism, but I do believe our generation is, more or less, beyond racism. Not beyond classism. And perhaps not beyond sexism.
I've lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin throughout my life. I have also traveled fairly extensively throughout the South. I have not traveled or lived for an extended period of time in the West or Mountain region of our country, but from my experience living in the Northeast, Midwest, and South, I do believe we have moved, or at least moving beyond racism. There will always be pockets, there will always be more racism in the South due to extenuating circumstances, but I believe we've made much progress.
What can I say? I'm an optimist.
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I would have to agree with Bond here...i think our generation as compared to past generations has improved greatly when it comes to racial matters. I believe (or would like to believe) that future generations will eventually fade out racism completely if this issue continues to advance at the rate it is now. I mean only decades ago were black people (not just african-americans, but rather ALL black people) were being used as slaves for generations. So the progress is staggering now as compared to before, and i would like it to proceed at the same rate, or faster even.
I would say the same could be said about sexism. Classism, however, is a completely different story and will never change. It existed 10,000 years ago, 2000 years ago, exists today, and will continue to exist in the future as it is human nature to classify people from poor to rich. Now, the same point - human nature -
could be argued about racism and sexism, but the fact that those two 'isms' have actually changed, drastically mind you, within the past 75 years would, IMO, invalidate that argument.
just my $0.02