Confronting racism face-to-face

YT: Mo Asumang, daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother, talks to BBC News about her experiences making her new documentary, The Aryans, in which she confronts racists, both in Germany and among the Ku Klux Klan in America.
siftbotsays...

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VoodooVsays...

don't these people watch sci fi? Any time some planet implements some sort of "racial purity" plan, they always end up coming up against some disease that wipes them out and they would have survived because the species they wiped out had some sort of genetic resistance to it so had they integrated and inter-married, they would have survived.

joking aside though. We're just seeing remnants of tribalism here, in the grand scheme of things, equal rights is still a VERY relatively new thing, so old ideas just take a long time to die. Each new generation is going to be less racist then the last one. Sure, racist parents will try to teach their kids to be racist, but the odds of that teaching sticking will be less and less.

racism just isn't sustainable over the long term. when tribes were divided by large land masses and large oceans and we didn't have fast means of travel, it was easy to maintain the illusion that your group was superior to everyone else. but now that the planet is a much smaller place, it's harder and harder to delude yourself.

in any case, economic discrimination will overtake racial discrimination soo n if it hasn't already. won't matter if you're white or black, but by how much is in your bank account.

JustSayingjokingly says...

Thank god, I can't stand the idea that the people over there are supposed to be as valuable to society as me.

Seriously, though, the pack mentality will always display itself in the most easily distinguishable way of seperating your tribe from others, the way we look. That's why the Nazis made Jews wear yellow stars, so you could see who's the untermensch. That's the upside of racism, you never need special fashion statements to distinguish the ones you hate from the rest.
And hating the poor has always been hip.

VoodooVsaid:

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in any case, economic discrimination will overtake racial discrimination soo n if it hasn't already. won't matter if you're white or black, but by how much is in your bank account.

Ickstersays...

You know that b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b thing people do by twiddling their lips while making a sound? I started doing that involuntarily about halfway through.

"I'm not a racist."

articiansays...

This was interesting. Was her grandmother really SS? I can't appreciate all that it means, and I'm too skeptical to take it at face value, but assuming this is as true to it's message as it seems, this is definitely the way to change human beliefs, ignorance, and prejudice.
Kindness, love and education.
If this is all true (I'm always devils' advocate) I am humbled by this woman's strength.

ChaosEnginesays...

Agreed. I've always said that deep down, racism, homophobia, misogyny are merely manifestations of fear.

I've always wanted to go to a white power rally or something and give them a big hug and say "don't worry, the scary black people aren't out to get you. You don't need to be afraid" and then watch the racist idiots squirm.

articiansaid:

This was interesting. Was her grandmother really SS? I can't appreciate all that it means, and I'm too skeptical to take it at face value, but assuming this is as true to it's message as it seems, this is definitely the way to change human beliefs, ignorance, and prejudice.
Kindness, love and education.
If this is all true (I'm always devils' advocate) I am humbled by this woman's strength.

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