Why Can't People Stop Hating...and Erase Racism.....?

Racism will never be eliminated so long as people accept the premise of categorizing people into races.  It is bogus science, and mankind has just not gotten it thrit's head.  The concept of racial classification is as legitimate as phrenology or reading tea leaves.  Once racial classification is accepted, you have generated an US versus THEM mentality.  Everyone splits up into teams along the lines that the labels have drawn.

Liberals make a big issue of celebrating our diversity.  While I agree with them that our diversity of backgrounds is one thing that has made America strong, it must be remembered that you do not unite people by emphasizing their differences.  You unite people by emphasizing the things they have in common... Same hopes, struggles, fears.  The melting pot concept does not mean everyone who comes here preserves the ways of their old country.  What it means is that they assimilate, and America absorbs and takes up those traditional things that are positive, and discard those which are negative... Making an American.  A unique person, different from citizens anywhere else.

We have institutionalized racism.  Our government asks people what race they are all the time.  I filed for an SBA loan once, and while it is supposed to be considered without being effected by race, creed, sex, so on and so on... One of the first things it asked was if any minorities or females were on the Board of Directors.  If that issue has no bearing upon it.. Why ask it?  The Govt, and the movers and shakers of the country, they like the racial classification thing because as long as they keep us divided, we are easier to control and manipulate.

It is going to be hard to eliminate the concept, especially when so many public leaders promote it.  It is a shame too... Historically, racism is actually quite new.  The very idea of racial classifications is only a couple hundred years old.  It is a psuedo-scientific concept created to jusitfy the oppression of certain peoples.  The concept is bogus... but it has become second nature to most people.

Personally, I find racial classification to be ludicrous.  When filing govt forms, and it asks race, I check "Other" and write in HUMAN.

It seems to me that some people are overly proud of where they come from and who their people are. They want to think that they are better than everyone else because of these things. Which in turn sparks a hatred, I think for other people who aren't like them. It truly is a sad thing to witness happening. I wish people would just quit it, and accept people for who they are, people with red blood, and feelings. Hope this helps.

I feel they are judging a book by it cover and they don't take the time to get to know the person first.

Racism will be around as long as people don't get education and look for themselves. All races have bad in them and people will have to see that for themselves to understand what they don't know. Truly ignorance promotes racism simply on the unknown.

Because there are people that will never let go of what has happened in the past and can not seem to get the idea that we all came from the same source/place. And as human beings they are far from being perfect or able to accept others they consider as being the ones that are to repay a debt that none had any thing to do with. and then you have parents that raise their children under the same beliefs as they have. So it will probably never end until the end of time here on earth.

It just comes from ignorance. Ignorant people have ignorant feelings don't take anything from someone ignorant.