Race

It's a heavy topic.  No one likes to talk about it, but everyone seems to have a hand in it.  I spend a lot of time on Babycenter, and race threads emerge all the time.  It usually ends up calling white people "supremacists", or try to make European-heritaged Americans feel bad about being white, or to knock the founding fathers because they governed in a time when slavery was legal.

I'll be the first to admit that racism still exists and is alive and well.  But there are all types of racism.  Racism is the belief that your race is superior to another.  Therefore, it is not always the majority group that displays racism. It is possible for any race to be racist against another.  But there are those that hold the opinion that there can never be racism against white people because white people, as a condition of their whiteness alone, have never been persecuted.

But Brian spent some time in Jamaica.  He told me about the racism he experienced first hand being in the vast minority.  Kingston, Jamaica is not known for its safety.  He told me about the names he was called, and the extortion he was subjected to.

My beef is not with the acknowledgment of racism.  It's there.  In Massachusetts I'm lucky to see little of it, but it still exists.  What I can't understand is what we are supposed to do about it.  We are told over and over and over again that we need to STRIVE for equality.  Great!  Excellent!  But then I'm told by some (at least on the message boards) that we will never ever attain equality.  That its impossible.

So is there never a time when we can hope to actually attain something relatively close to equality?  Seems like your damned if you do, damned if you don't.