Just watched "American Denial" on channel 21 about the American racist culture, about how tolerant we Think we are compared to how subconsciously racist we Actually are. How as much as we tout equality, we are actually setting up people of color to fail; where even children of color somehow already believe they are bad and will fail. And that this was discovered back in the 40's thru a major independent study that was instrumental in ending segregation and yet, things haven't really changed except on the surface. We want to be non-biased and uphold the ideals of equality but are intrinsically unable to truly be that unbiased. We don't want to admit, ever to ourselves, that we are prejudiced. We want the ideal so badly we can't even see that it's still a problem in every aspect of our society. At one time the government investigated the Jewish Problem, then it was the Negro Problem that spearheaded that study I mentioned before. That study said that it wasn't a black problem so much as a white problem with blacks. It was an American problem. If you segregate, suppress or stigmatize a race, a culture; then you force them to then either deny themselves or to embrace that stigma. (Did you know that segregation was determined to be psychologically damaging to the psyche of black Americans? It was totally unconstitutional.) This is our reality here in this country. The attitudes people wouldn't say to our faces are readily put on blast on social media. Not that it doesn't happen to our faces still because it definitely does. I don't want my children getting the message that they are bad or less worthy, that they will most likely end up in jail or on welfare, that they aren't as beautiful and smart and deserving as white children. The civil rights movement isn't over. It was not successful, not truly. This is not a color issue. This is an American problem. Watch this film and share it with others. It's shocking. It's important.
