Of course I interact with other humans. I am perhaps naively optimistic at times, but other times I spot potential or opportunities that other people may miss.
I know a lot of people of different backgrounds and a number of people in mixed marriages. I’m white, but have had good bosses/mentors who were black and worked in an office for years where whites and blacks had some common ground as far as getting the work done.
I realize that I’ve had a better experience than many, but it was nothing that couldn’t happen in many places in America, daily.
I’ve had exposure to black racism against whites, too, and the other way around, as well as black prejudice against darker blacks and white prejudice against “white trash”, and asian prejudice against whites and latino prejudice against blacks. I live in the real world. I just choose to pull together positive threads where I see them. A negative distortion that overlooks those threads is inaccurate, just as much as a pollyanna view is.
I would say, though, that it helps if the people involved are of the middle or upper-middle class, or are “aspiring” to move up to that. For people who are pursuing ‘The American Dream’ and raising families, they have some important things in common as Americans.
I wouldn’t overplay it, and I think you would like to blow my small point out of proportion, but I’m just saying that, if they had to pick allies, it would be more logical if blacks chose whites.
*I wouldn’t overplay it, and I think you would like to blow my small point out of proportion, but I’m just saying that, if they had to pick allies, it would be more logical if blacks chose whites.*
Logic barely enters into things like this.
I’m glad you’ve had good experience with folks of all types in a corporate business setting. Go to your nearest ghetto and see just how much those folks have with the average suburbanite or urban yuppie. Then see how well your theory stands up.
I’d wager just the opposite of what you posit, actually. Hispanics were never slaves to the white man in America and will not be bashing that over anyone’s head anytime a break doesn’t fall their way. Most seem to be very religious. Most seem to be very hardworking. Most seem to value family.