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Originally Posted by merylsilverburg
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?! 
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I am thinking Meryl has hit the nail on the head. People tend to think they have done their days work simply by watching movies about racism and are so blind to their own prejudice ways that they continue to practice them as if they learned absolutely nothing!
Racism at its core is an ego problem just like everything else. Two of the main devices of the ego is to label and judge. These labels and judgements are based on our own limited perceptions from our own experiences and not as a people as a whole. These labels and judgements are also based on our own insecurities, which on a deep level we feel we must project on others to feel better about ourselves. Most of the time we are not even aware of this unless we really stop to think. We are all capable of racist thoughts, but it is our job as a society that must live together to EVOLVE beyond the negative controlling nature of such thoughts, and admit to ourselves that we are all in the same struggle to find ourselves in such an oppressive society, each in our own way.
It is simple. In order to succeed, we must live together. May cultures unite in harmony like the true meaning of HIP HOP!
PEACE
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