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Racism - An illness or a Way of life?
This morning while getting dressed for work, my attention was drawn to a talk show program on TV.
I dont know what the moderator's name was but he was a Psychologist (Not Dr. Phil) and he was featuring two young ladies (both adults and married) who brought their Mom on the program because she was a racist.
At first I wasn't interested but after a while I was intrigued...
They said that their (White) Mom while they were kids would not allow them to have any Black Friends; even though their community and the school they attended were predominantly Black.
One daughter spoke of a time when she made the mistake of having one of her Black Classmates give her a ride home and the Mother, right there on the front lawn, immediately after her daughter alighted from the vehicl egave her a whooping. She said that the mom then went down to the local store, bought a "Cat-O-Nine (leather whip with metal strips on the ends), call the boy up and told him that if he ever came near to her daughter again she would skin him alive.
Anyway, to make a long story short, the Mother when asked, said that she WAS in fact a racist and when asked why, said that she was born that way.
She then told the audience that as a child she was was given a Black dog whom she would torture every minute of the day. She said that she would stick things in every single orifice of the dog just to see him suffer. She said that her father (who encouraged the behavior)was a racist and would often brag about the number of N*** that he had personally killed.
Anyway...The thing that stuck with me was when she said that she was BORN a racist.
The psychologist tried convinced her that she was not Born a racist but infact learned racism.
He even lamented that racism is a sickness.
What do you believe...?
1. Can someone be born a racist?
2. If you were not before, can you "learn" racism?
3. Do you think that racism is an illness?
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 "In this great future, you can't forget your past. " Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
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