The hoax is that “most white people hate black people.” There are white supremacists all over, and the latest ‘ hate white men ‘ trend is probably creating more. If media bad mouthing black People causes black bad behavior, then media bad mouthing white people might do the same damn thing.
Noticing differences between people has many degrees.
1. You guys look different. You sound different. You do things in a different way. NEUTRAL and yet still frowned upon - here’s where healing starts.
2. I don’t like your differences. Seems yucky to do it differently than I do. STARTING TO GET NEGATIVE. (this kind of emotion is very common in early childhood over everything). People can learn to accept the different at this phase as well.
3. My kind is better than your kind. I think I will try and stay away from your kind. RACISM. Somewhat benign, but harder to influence this degree of racism.
4. I hate your kind. We need to fight against you. You are harming us just by existing. You should be in jail or even dead just by being a member of that group. VIOLENT RACISM. Entrenched and too late to be helped.
“You guys look different. You sound different. You do things in a different way. NEUTRAL and yet still frowned upon - here’s where healing starts.”
It can. Tell me more about how you do it and why, and I’ll tell you more about our way of doing it and why, and we’ll understand each other better.
Your different way of doing it is fine, just as long as neitehr of us tries to impose our way on the other.