Hopefully...but I doubt it...
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Through all of this, I hope there is some excellent reporting and journalism that offers facts in an unbiased manner, but I doubt it will happen. The older I get and the more experiences I have, the more I realize that it might just be impossible for this country to ever have a serious, deep and understand dialog when it comes to race. Whites don't want to touch it because too often any observations or criticisms of people of color by whites turns into accusations of racism. Then you have whites that are just stubborn or ignorant when it does come to their prejudices and believe they have nothing to be taught, when we do. It is my belief ALL people bear prejudices (in fact, nature and human survival mechanisms deep in our reptilian brain influence such things - for example, take walking down the street - regardless of race - imagine walking down a street and seeing a figure from a distance walking toward you - first your brain tells you it's something alive and a potential danger, then you learn it's a person, not a vicious animal, then your brain is deciphering if the person is like you - man, woman a threat - then you start to see it's a shaved head man, wearing a leather jacket, then you see suspenders, jack boots and ugly, threatening tattoos on his neck, then, it's facial signals of anger and hate and clenched fists....fair to see it's a skinhead and dangerous, right?) but I also believe a person's prejudices does not automatically make them "racist". We have such a long way to go, sadly, as others have pointed out, our media has not done well...nor have the biased activists on each side...and I am thankful we have great writers like Leonard Pitts and Eugene Robinson to help guide us a bit more....
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Through all of this, I hope there is some excellent reporting and journalism that offers facts in an unbiased manner, but I doubt it will happen. The older I get and the more experiences I have, the more I realize that it might just be impossible for this country to ever have a serious, deep and understand dialog when it comes to race. Whites don't want to touch it because too often any observations or criticisms of people of color by whites turns into accusations of racism. Then you have whites that are just stubborn or ignorant when it does come to their prejudices and believe they have nothing to be taught, when we do. It is my belief ALL people bear prejudices (in fact, nature and human survival mechanisms deep in our reptilian brain influence such things - for example, take walking down the street - regardless of race - imagine walking down a street and seeing a figure from a distance walking toward you - first your brain tells you it's something alive and a potential danger, then you learn it's a person, not a vicious animal, then your brain is deciphering if the person is like you - man, woman a threat - then you start to see it's a shaved head man, wearing a leather jacket, then you see suspenders, jack boots and ugly, threatening tattoos on his neck, then, it's facial signals of anger and hate and clenched fists....fair to see it's a skinhead and dangerous, right?) but I also believe a person's prejudices does not automatically make them "racist". We have such a long way to go, sadly, as others have pointed out, our media has not done well...nor have the biased activists on each side...and I am thankful we have great writers like Leonard Pitts and Eugene Robinson to help guide us a bit more....
