Thursday, February 12, 2009

Race privileges

I feel like even though many white people are against racism and prejudice, their minds subconsciously make that distinction whether they meant to or not. Those thoughts are built down into people's minds, because the man's first instinct is to act upon what they see. What they see are people who look different to them, and that is the first thought they come across of when they see someone of a different race. Because the white population of the world was technically the first race to advance much more than others, it came natural to them to look at others and see inferiority. If it is all massively broken down to the simple basics of human behavior, every action they make against people of other races are simply and driven by some sort of fear and the need to protect one's self. Back then when the oppression came forth, it makes sense that it originated from the sense of the white race to push down any others who were potentially a threat to their stature. When I think about it, it seems like the idea that racism is originated from fear might be hard from some people to grasp. But by ignoring for a second their side of the argument, it should be clear to them that fear is a reasonable explanation. Now I understand and there are a lot more massive and obvious reasons to shutting people from other races out, and that's what people probably see the clearest, but I think that that primitive sense of fear has evolved into a much more complex idea of racism. That idea has been knocked into everyone's head naturally, because that has become instinct. The privileges that come to white people are also mostly left into the subconscious until an outside source forces that person to actually think about it. No one really notices it because it has become the norm for so many people, who can't help but take it for granted. Even people who are aware of it and are fighting against it can't help but see black people as black people. Then that primitive urge to distinguish yourself from them kicks in, but ultimately your actions are left up to your moral values and what you believe in. People subconsciously act in reaction to what they sense with their senses, but if they care to look beyond that with their mind, that's when they can be sure they have supassed that racist attitude.

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