Thursday, March 5, 2009

Solution to Racism 2

Often I have fantasized of a world without racism or stereotypes.  However, I have never been able to come up with a solution.  Every time that I would come up with a possible solution, it would be shot down.  For example, one of the solutions that I came up with was to produce more interracial babies.  This idea came into my mind while the class was discussing whether or not Malcolm X could be considered a racist against the white society in class.  Though the idea may sound realistic at first, it is not likely to cure racism because firstly, people cannot be forced to produce interracial babies, and secondly, it would only create more races for people to discriminate against.  Though unfortunate, I feel that racism will exist as long as ignorant and unethical humans continue to influence the younger generations with the toxin.  It is only logical for racism to exist as long as the younger generations are taught to believe that it is moral.  When a young mind grows up in an environment crawling with racism, they learn to accept it as part of their life and it becomes engraved into their minds.  Once a person grows up believing that racism is right, it is practically impossible to remove that idea from their mind. 

Fortunately, I have never faced racism from anybody during the sixteen years that I have lived so far.  I believe that this is partly due to the fact that I have always grown up in environments surrounded by children whose parents have taught them how immoral racism is.  I am positive that if I had grown up in an uneducated neighborhood where the parents hadn't taught their children how unethical racism is, I would have been subject to it.  I believe that racism is a radical form of bullying and I feel that racism is more common in the uneducated and usually poorer areas of society because it acts as a source from which the people can increase their self-esteem.  By bullying people based on their ethnicity or color, the racists are able to feel better about the position they are in.  

This link, http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N25/col25nesmi.25c.html, provides an article from The Tech, which is the newspaper of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, regarding racism.  The article speaks of how racism still exists beneath the surface of society today, and the final sentence supports the case that the true solution to racism has not been found.  It angers me that the few immoral members of society keep racism alive and well in society because the majority want to end it.  


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