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Originally Posted by Berserker

I'm thinking how shocked I am by the racist murders in Belgium, some familymember of a flemish right-wing party-member, went on the streets and shot a coloured woman with her 2 year old white child(both dead) and then went on to shoot a turkish-woman at a busstop(in a coma). At his home they found a letter stating that he was going to shoot as many coloured people as he could that day....
I mean you get used to disturbing news nowadays, but this really shocked me. What a sad sad news. I mean haven't we learned anything at all from WWll? I heard stories from my grandma, about how my granddad had to hide for the germans and even at her old age I felt the hate she carried against the nazi's and their ideals. Now here we are 60 years later and some people are still following the believes, ideals and even actions of those stupid f%@&^#. It makes me really sick!

Sorry for this rant, I needed to get this of my chest.

That it terrible. It's really awful and dangerous to be a victim of such supreme racism. Your grandmother, even though she is at an old age, could never really forget or forgive such a traumatic experience, poor woman. Ignorance and stupidity causing all the unncessary hate that is racism will probably never go away...even with media, magazines, and films that reveal the ugliness inside of people, people would simply watch it and go "Oh my, that is terrible! How can anyone be that way?" and carry on their lives while inflicting the same racist behaviors! For example, these small-town ignoramuses who frequent the restaurant where my family and I work, came in and started talking about the film "Crash" with my sister. She later reveals to me how they just simply "couldn't understand how people could be so cruel." Ironically, later in the conversation they were talking about this Muslim restaurant owner on the other side of town, whom is actually very quiet and very nice, and say they are "suspicious" of him because of his demeanor and then the husband says: "I mean, who knows what kind of terrorist things he's planning!" WTF, right?!