Racism in the New Era
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There's a saying amoung my family that if you look for snakes, you will inevitably find at the least evidence of snakes. You could look for snakes on mars, and you'd find evidence of them, if you looked hard enough - because in the end we interpret everything we see, hear, read or do through a sort of "filter". this filter automatically bumps up credibility for whatever you already believe to be true.

Racism is one of those issues that is an inevitable part of the human condition. Humans are trained, from pre-birth, to discriminate between "self" and "not self", and "us" and "not us". To deny this is to deny nature. There can be reasonable laws concerning the matter, of course - non-discrimination in hiring, for example. But you cannot change how people think, or how they feel within themselves. There will always be some distrust - on all sides - of those different from ourselves.