Conflict Of Interest

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? ~ Judith Jamison

A lot of people think that racist are just racist, people being rude, stupid, and singling out people just because of their race. In a sense, that would be true, but, that would only be the surface issue; The cover of the book, so to speak, which people are judging. However, there is more than meets the eye, just like everything.

There are a lot of racist out there, but there aren't as many as people believe.When people make a racist comments, it doesn't really make them a racist. Most of the time when people make a racist comment, either they are trying to say the most insulting thing, or they don't realize what they are saying.

Nonetheless, since racism is so hurtful, and the point of an insult is to hurt someone, it is rather obvious what people are going to say. Just like how some people insult someone’s mother. The point is to injure, and the most effective means is used.

Hurting people with malicious comments is not nice, but going after people who do such actions, would probably mean going after a lot of people. Also, it would be quite counterproductive; It's just bad mannered people not racist.

In addition, it doesn't address the real situation at hand: do they really believe that they are superior, and someone from a different race inferior? Furthermore, if people react so wildly to perceived, or racism comments, we will never get to the bottom of things, of what is really so. If people are labeling everything as racism, people will find that no one believes, for it's like crying wolf.

While the popular erroneous excuse that people are just born like that, racist aren't born, they are taught. When people do something, there is always a reason, whether it makes some or no sense to us.

Additionally, what has been taught can be retaught, and if people are racist they can learn not to be so. If someone, for instance, was beaten up by a certain race or bullied, it wouldn't be such of a surprise that they turned racist to a certain group. All their belief of that race is created by those people who did those actions to them. While a wrong view, it's understandable. However, if someone was to help them see the other side of that race, they might change.

Nevertheless, while one is not defending them, they are ignorant, ignorant of the good in a race, but only know the bad. This ignorance is a quite an issue. Issue, because if they say,”I hate that race.”Most people will call them racist, which they are, but they are ignorant. Ignorant of what made the racist, and with that ignorance, they will attack the racist, with probably more hate than the racist themselves.

Racism is still a problem today, but a lot of things that we believe as racism, is usually not. Real racism at the end of day, is believing that one race is superior than the other. Much effort should be done to snuff out racism, but also, much effort should be taken to ascertain if something is really racist. Less we end up barking the wrong tree.

To sum it up really, there are more facades to racism, and people are people, they have complicated lives, but there are always a reason for what they do. While we have to judge in some situations, most of the time we should help. And while something might seem black and white, a message is to be learnt to the racist, there are other colors of races, and to those who just see a racist, not everything is that clear cut.