Things like this make me wonder...

[Kevykev]

People are more prejudice now than all out racist, they just have a set of biases when it comes to certain races do to lack of exposure and/or positive interaction between a selected race.

I tell you one thing though, when it comes to an individual's judgement of another race, lots of factors/variables come into play such as Family Values,exposure to other races, experiences with other races, biases, ignorance etc.

I have a black friend that doesn't really care for white people as he said, do to some negative experiences he's had with that particular race in particular situation. He got let go from a job that involved laying tile and replaced with a white guy. Anyway i had to drop some knowledge on this guy because he thought his seperation was due to his race. I asked him "how are you sure, the let you go because of your race," "how do you know that they just didn't find a more experieced person that would increase production for their business?" I basically had him seeing things from a different perspective; and that in itself is exactly what keeps prejudice alive- the LACK of a different perspective- AKA Ignorance

Some people have a brick wall up when exposed to a situation when they have to deal with another race. This wall enables them to continue that ingnorance because no matter how that experience goes, they will still have that bias. Until that barrier is eliminated, individuals will continue to have prejudices.

Now when seperate races both have this wall, you better believe that no progress or acceptance will be made.

**In summary, it is simply human nature to have prejudice against something that is dissimilar to yourself (at least in appearance) if we were all one straight color we would be seperated by height.

[FrnkPwrs]

I have a black friend that doesn't really care for white people as he said, do to some negative experiences he's had with that particular race in particular situation. He got let go from a job that involved laying tile and replaced with a white guy. Anyway i had to drop some knowledge on this guy because he thought his seperation was due to his race. I asked him "how are you sure, the let you go because of your race," "how do you know that they just didn't find a more experieced person that would increase production for their business?"

Dont you ahte when people do that? I have a friend that is mexican, only been in the US a couple years. He worked doing AC Install. He was always late, wasnt a very hard worker, etc. and he asked for some days off to finish probation community service and they gave it to him. He got back, and the word aroudn the workplace was that he was on probation and he said the job was being racist making it harder for him to work there, LOL. I had to explain to him long and hard that racism shouldnt be mixed with unprofessionalism

[Kevykev]

Dont you ahte when people do that? I have a friend that is mexican, only been in the US a couple years. He worked doing AC Install. He was always late, wasnt a very hard worker, etc. and he asked for some days off to finish probation community service and they gave it to him. He got back, and the word aroudn the workplace was that he was on probation and he said the job was being racist making it harder for him to work there, LOL. I had to explain to him long and hard that racism shouldnt be mixed with unprofessionalism

I have the explanation right here frank:

People are always searching for an explanation. They will go with the most feasable one at the time. The one that makes most sense to them. If the race card needs to be pulled well, they pull it.

lack of a general perspective is what supports that action. Ignorance works both ways in "minorities" and "non-minorities"