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Racism
* Most racism exists because of a non-willingness for conformity
  - nowadays takes indirect forms
* abounds and results in discrimination, dehumanization, and oppression.
* affects everyone
  - the everyday reality of people of colour
* also affects everyone
  - income distribution
  - limits a person's enjoyment of many areas of life
  - narrows people's worlds and limits people's freedom
  - targets males as likely victims of sexual abuse
* amounts to intolerance based on skin color or racial background.
* attacks the very sense of self for children of color.
* begins with egoism.
* biological fact of life.
* blight on the human conscience.
* can also be discrimination based on race
  - play a role
  - take place at different levels
* can be brutally overt or invisibly institutional, or both
  - personal or institutional
  - change and greatly damage lives forever
  - start with stereotypes, ignorance, home and friend influences and other sources
* cancer of the worst kind.
* causes damage by isolating and hurting people and dividing communities
  - some people to be turned down in housing, education, and employment
* clearly factor in what is happening to malls
  - plays a part in residential segregation
* combination of racial prejudice and discrimination.
* comes in all colors.
* continues as a powerful force in the Australian community.
* continues to cause painful division and marginalization
  - deform human relations across the face of our common globe
  - divide people
* corrupts the mind, infects the heart, and poisons the spirit.
* demon who invades the heart and mind and usually tries to hide.
* denies the historical and ongoing contributions of people of colour.
* destructive and persistent evil that brings only harm.
* disease of the intellect.
* divides and weakens working-class struggles.
* doctrine of the congenital inferiority and worthlessness of a people
  - of, by and for brutes
* does exist in our country
  - indeed exist in today's society
* exacerbates hate and discontent within society and work environment.
* exists against all members of our society
  - and constitutes a controversial social and political issue in contemporary society
  - as elements in any society
  - both in the North and in the South, but differently
  - even though people of color are always visible
* exists in all aspects of society today
  - societies around the world in one form or another
  - everybody, in every color
  - only in rural areas
* feeds by swallowing others and therefore paves the way for aggression
  - on depersonalizing others
* form of prejudice
  - pride
  - scapegoating
* fosters oppression
  - the vomiting of inward arrogance to be spewed as outward supremacy
* gets lots of play in the media, as does sexism.
* global disease, infecting human hearts in every country of the world
  - phenomenon that occurs world-wide
* goes beyond mere prejudice.
* grand refusal to see individuals as individuals, each responsible for their own actions.
* greater problem among minorities than it is between minorities and whites.
* happens because of a lack of understanding
  - in many different ways
* has a depth and intensity which afflicts the mental and spiritual
  - history, coming into being with the rise of capitalist nations
  - lot to do with absence
  - many disguises
* has nothing to do with color, but everything to do with attitude
  - football either
* has to be one of the most destructive devices known to humanity
  - do with both the question of defining the other as well as the self
* hatred or intolerance of another race.
* huge problem in our country.
* human trait.
* hurts white people, and sexism hurts men
  - workers as well as minorities
* implies a hatred and intolerance of different people
  - that race matters
* includes both personal and institutional racism.
* informs our images and treatment of women.
* involves power domination by one group over the other.
* is about people from dominant groups exerting their power unjustly over others
  - power and the abuse of poser, exploitation, and oppression
  - systems, institutions, people in power maintaining that power
  - weak people feeling weak, and blaming someone else
  - abundant in the world today
  - alive and well in the way police treat minorities
* is also a sin in Honduras
  - term that needs to be defined
  - still alive and well as witnessed by the current rise in violent hate crimes
  - among the worst of ingrained prejudices that characterize sinful human beings
* is an abuse
  - additional factor faced by women of color
  - attitude or activity motivated by beliefs that value one race over another
  - early-stage cancer
  - enemy of peace
  - illness that afflicts many societies
  - illogical learned emotional response to people who are different
  - important and controversial subject
  - institutionalised phenomenon in South Africa
  - integral element in the American death penalty
  - ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed
  - issue that the church needs to stamp out
  - undeniable part of American life
  - unfortunate part of American culture
  - universal problem
* is at the center of the discriminatory conditions within the business
  - root of the wars that destroy Indian villages and way of life
* is based on economics
  - fiction
  - history, genetics, economics and sex
  - prejudice toward so-called racial groups
* is based on the belief in one's own ethnic superiority over that of another
  - singular idea that some people are inferior to others
  - bias
  - blatant, with women of color getting fewer and less desirable shifts
  - born of ignorance
  - both the original sin and the fatal flaw of the republic
  - clearly apparent in police brutality and court prejudices
  - color prejudice and the misuse of institutional power
  - constructed by humans
  - created and reproduced out of a complex set of circumstances
  - criticised even by churches though in the past they collaborated with the regime
  - different from racial prejudice, hatred, or discrimination
  - difficult to understand and often traumatic
  - endemic to white so like that of the unemployed in the fifties
  - everyone's problem
  - everywhere even on a campus that dictates multiculturalism and diversity
  - felt through out the world, everyday
  - founded on the belief in one s racial superiority over another
  - given expression through prejudice and discrimination
  - hatred, the opposite of love
* is ignorance and fear that come together and form hatred
  - manifested through fear, while greed is ignorance manifested through want
  - ignorance, no matter what culture it is directed towards
  - in Rwanda, Bosnia and the Middle East
* is in fact a kind of social misconception all over the world
  - the purest expression of patriotism
  - ingrained in our institutions and consciousness
  - inherent in sinful man
  - injustice of the highest order
  - interwoven into the fabric of American culture
  - just like warfare in which there is no shelter and nobody is neutral
  - located in souths
  - man's ego exalting itself
  - meaningless against an organized people
  - mental and physical lynching with rules, words, money, culture, law, and clubs
  - more a societal problem than a library or library association problem
* is more than a couple of mean or nasty white people acting out
  - just intolerance
  - personal prejudice
  - motivated by greed and perpetuated by power and ignorance
  - offensive and it breeds hate
* is one form of discrimination
  - of many diversity issues to be addressed
* is one of the big issues in the world today
  - largest social problems
  - most difficult problems facing our society
  - worst things in the world
  - sort of anti-conceptualism
  - specific form of prejudice, focusing on physical variations between people
  - ousted by friends in other races
* is part of American history
  - the context of tribal-state relations
  - perhaps the most extreme expression of a whole gamut of behaviours
  - perpetuated by class structure
  - persistent, often subtle and is deeply embedded in all levels of our society
  - personal, institutional, cultural and internal
  - pervasive throughout the existing world-system
  - politics parading in a guise of nature and natural law
  - power and prejudice, so blacks by definition can t be racist
  - prejudice merely from skin color
  - primarily a system of social power
  - pure ignorance and evil
* is racism is racism
  - no matter how it's packaged
* is racism, no matter what color perpetrates it
  - who embraces it
  - whomever it favours
  - real and decisions are made every day to keep people separated
  - rooted in ignorance
  - simply endemic in capitalism
  - so linked to queer oppression
* is something that's systematic, it's ingrained in our culture
  - which belongs to the soul and the mind of each and every human being
* is still a favorite argument for genocide
  - significant factor in educational mobility for students of color
* is still alive and well, operating in every segment of American society
  - today because hatred basic human emotion
  - predominant in African countries
  - rampant in our society
  - the number one divider of people
  - very visible today in a lot of areas of our lives
  - supposedly an act of power and oppression
  - systemic in our society and shapes the way society is structured
  - that bondage in which whites are free to beat, rape, or kill blacks
* is the attitude of belief that human abilities are determined by race
  - basis for slavery and colonization
  - belief that certain races are better than other races
* is the belief that one race is innately superior to all other races
  - or group of people are inherently superior to another
  - big social problem in the United States
  - combination of prejudice and the misuse of power
  - conviction that human beings can be cleaved, or separated into races
  - elevation of membership in a racial group over individual merit
  - idea that one's character is determined by race
  - ideology developed to justify the slavery of people of African descent in our country
  - initial violence
  - intentional or unintentioanl use of power to isolate, separate and exploit others
* is the most challenging issue confronting the world today
  - debilitating factor in urban life
  - notion that one's race determines one's identity
  - oppression of one people by another
  - power to perpetuate and intensify prejudice and exclusivism through institutions
  - result of ignorance and fear of the unknown
  - stereotyping and collectivizing of people of a race
  - stupidest thing in the world
  - systemic enforcement of radical prejudice
  - taboo through which it is being done
  - worst form of hatred
* is therefore as much an examination of oneself as of society
  - only one of many symptoms of a deeper malaise
  - thus only implicit in behavior
  - total estrangement
  - ugly, fueled by hatred, exclusivism and superiority
  - unacceptable behavior
  - unfair to black people
* is used as a weapon against all youth and working people
  - by the elite upper class to help sustain themselves
  - to try to keep down wages
  - today to divide black and white people and to dominate both
  - usually a misunderstanding between cultures
  - very much alive in the world
  - well and alive in United States
  - widespread in the world and has caused many problems
* largely misunderstood term.
* learned behavior, which is usually taught at home
  - trait that can be avoided through education and desegregated socialization
* lives on as a sign of the sin which controls many decisions, personal and corporate.
* lives, in all colors.
* major health determinant
  - issue in the legal system
* major problem in and for America's cities and towns
  - many materially advanced countries
* makes people so blind that their normal consciences and sensitivities no longer function.
* modern fact, a product of evolutionary thinking.
* moral issue.
* often starts in the mind of young children.
* operates similarly in individuals.
* part of the human condition.
* particular form of domination, exploitation and exclusion.
* people problem.
* pernicious and persistent evil.
* persists, particularly in the field of athletics, in an insidious and multifaceted fashion.
* pits one group against another, causing bitterness and hatred.
* plays a huge role in determining who dies
  - who goes to prison
* poison that can succeed in dividing workers.
* power relationship.
* prejudice based on the outward appearance of an individual.
* prevents people of colour from achieving equality of opportunity and outcome.
* primary factor in the continuing failure by governments to call an inquiry.
* problem everywhere
  - in churches and society
* problem that has existed as long as our country, and there is no quick fix
  - perplexed the human race since it began
* product of capitalism
  - social conflict
* product of the bosses' attempt at divide and rule
  - interrelations between blacks and whites mainly
* promotes nationalism on the basis of ethnic identity.
* props up capitalism.
* protects the rights of all human societies.
* quiet fire fueled by the fumes of ignorance and fear.
* remains a major problem throughout the United States.
* results in distortions of vision.
* river still running strong and deep through our society and our consciousness.
* salient form of passion.
* separates, confuses, invalidates, and immobilizes everyone.
* serious problem in the United States.
* sick ill that does nothing but hold people back.
* sin that permeates society and the church.
* sin, a theological heresy.
* sneaky evil, and it usually appears in a more subtle form.
* social and spiritual disease
  - disease that is manifested through our educational system
* spiritual issue.
* stems from Britain's legacy as an imperial power and a slave-trade economy.
* still exists in Little Rock, in the country, and in the world
  - exists, but the African-American civil rights movement changed the world forever
  - flourishes in society
* system in which special advantages are set aside for certain racial groups.
* system of advantage based on race
  - domination that is economic and political as well as personal
  - group dominance
* systemic evil, and so are sexism and world hunger
  - issue with individual, institutional and cultural manifestations
* takes many forms.
* terrible evil in our society because it shows a hatred of a group of people.
* then signifies the merger of race and culture.
* tool of big business and of the unelected elites who run our society.
* undergirds our history and our traditions.
* violates creation by treating people as less than human.
* word on almost everyone's mind and tongue.
* works in all directions.