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Unfortunately, in all races around 15% of the people are racist.
To define racism: they believe they are better than people of other races
Racists believe they are entitled to more privileges, services and protections, and that they have the right and duty to ensure that other races cannot have access to the same rights. They work systematically to achieve these ends, even if only by passive means such as voting for racist politicians.
Micro-racisms can be expressed by avoiding people not of the same race, verbal abuse, rude gestures, inappropriate questions, and assumptions for which there is no basis of evidence.
In the USA 60% of the population is white. Whites control the rules of politics, economics, taxation, law, education, information technologies, medicine, social services, transport, mineral rites, agriculture, immigration and the military.
This means that whatever racism non-whites may feel or express, it rarely has enough sting to worry whites.
The imbalances are real. One only has to check out the US government's own statistics on any measure to see how enormous the inequities are. These stats are permanently available online and free to access from anywhere in the world. Try looking them up.
The upside is that 85% of people of all races are not racist.
To define racism: they believe they are better than people of other races
Racists believe they are entitled to more privileges, services and protections, and that they have the right and duty to ensure that other races cannot have access to the same rights. They work systematically to achieve these ends, even if only by passive means such as voting for racist politicians.
Micro-racisms can be expressed by avoiding people not of the same race, verbal abuse, rude gestures, inappropriate questions, and assumptions for which there is no basis of evidence.
In the USA 60% of the population is white. Whites control the rules of politics, economics, taxation, law, education, information technologies, medicine, social services, transport, mineral rites, agriculture, immigration and the military.
This means that whatever racism non-whites may feel or express, it rarely has enough sting to worry whites.
The imbalances are real. One only has to check out the US government's own statistics on any measure to see how enormous the inequities are. These stats are permanently available online and free to access from anywhere in the world. Try looking them up.
The upside is that 85% of people of all races are not racist.