interesting take I would question if all stereotypes are racist? Some guy in a suite, most would assume he is a professional..long hair guy, most would think he is a dope smoker..etc etc
I think mostly I was just trying to illustrate that it is human nature to consciously or subconsciously put people in categories. Some good and some bad. This is human nature. You might meet someone and decide in the first 30 seconds that he's an asshole. Maybe he's just having a bad day and he's really a nice guy, but you decide that he's a tool and you don't want to be around him. Similarly, many Americans saw the planes crash into the Twin Towers and now have an inherent distrust for Muslims. It could be generations before this goes away.
1.1 million I believe was the final casualty count of that war that cost several billion dollars. One hell of a monstrous price to pay for freeing 3.3 million slaves.
for the most part, the abaility to develope a first impressin, profile or what ever else you want to call it is a survival instinct..not a bad thing, all in all evenn before the twin tower disaster, I have had an extreme dfference in values with most muslims..its a cultural thing rathr than religious..
Talking about the civil war, most of those photos were shot from 1911-1930. That was long after the civil war
Perhaps you have cause. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm You might be taken for an Infidel.
Which of course is basically what the Japanese did to the Chinese in Nanking... a (much) less charitable part of me would say that you can't disown your brethren when they're the aggressors and cling to them when they were the victims or were heroes, because that would be hypocritical... but then it's all human nature to do just that all the time.
When I google "how long is a generation", I get a lot of 15-20 years, and some longer. So 3-4 is more likely than 7-8, if the interwebz are to be believed. I had to google it as it's actually long been a question of mine.
Forget what happened 100 years ago . . . I would like someone to explain why the private power positions in the Tri-County area (CEOs, CFOs, partners at large marketing firms, large law firms, large accounting firms) is not representative of the minority population in Portland. I haven't seen the studies recently but a 5-10 years ago, there was less than 1% of black people held these positions at the major corporations in the surrounding areas. Truth is, even in today's world, black people (and other minorities) have hurdles to overcome. Portland is a white town with little opportunities for people of color in the private sector. If a black person came to me about career path, I would tell them to get out of Oregon . . . just true honest advise.
I have to admit that this is something that Iknow nothing about. Thaks forthe link. This is very interesting. Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said. Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries. A lot of history I have read glossed over this subject in a sentece or two.
How many lynchings in US history? Maybe 4000. 4000 too many, but also not indicative of genocide. Many in the Northern states... You can't just blame the south. The purpose was to "put people in their place." Intimidation. The intimidation is still there in one form or another. Be it the gruesome murder of James Byrd to segregation to housing projects. And institutionalized racism. Our predecessors enacted punitive laws and regulations that benefit white people, still, and punish black people still.
