Why are people racist?

[Mama05]

Just in the light of the George Floyd murder in America and the subsequent rioting, it’s made me think why are people racist?

I just don't get why the colour of someone’s skin is a massive problem to some people?

Like the colour of someone’s skin is justification enough to some people to treat them horrendously or even kill them. Just for the colour of their skin? I just don’t get it at all?

Yes I agree that it’s fear and inherited from ancestors too.. but like pp said, there’s n o excuse for it in this day and age.

Thank you for the film recommendation I will give this watch today!

We are all part of the human race. It’s such a shame discrimination exists or the world would be such a better place.

Maybe one day we will ALL see past colour, gender, religious and other factors and all understand that underneath our skin we are all the same.

Its tribalism unfortunately.

It is deeply entrenched in our society, even within people who wholly believe they are not racist. We unconsciously (at the very least) other those with darker skin.

Stupid example, a woman I know has always seemed quite progressive - the other day she opened her Instagram message to find a video from a black guy wanking to a picture of her. She seemed horrified that it was a black guy, but I mean, I’d be horrified no matter the colour of his skin. It’s just another perpetuation of the idea that black men are sexually aggressive. But I tell you now, I’ve received many unsolicited dick pics from filthy white men.

I don’t know why racism exists, and we aren’t going to see it’s downfall in this generation. My exMIL called her neighbours children something that rhymes with twiglets in front of my son many years ago, I’ve never forgot that - I hold on to that because it’s a reminder that I need to educate my son and try not to expose him to those influences. But yet, when someone else who is supposedly progressive cracks a mildly racist joke it shows me just how far we have to go.

I think it could be a cultural bias rather than necessarily racial.

Growing up in London, for example, didn’t matter what skin colour anyone had if they spoke like each other, had same cultural way of doing things etc. They were all just ‘English’.

In areas where, say, Asian communities lived together and dressed and spoke differently then that was the place there could be divides between ‘English’ and ‘Asian’.

It may well be different in US where there is a different history but that’s how I’ve seen it growing up in London. Culture not skin tone.

I just think treat others how you would want to be treated yourself.

@lovelocks

Exactly! This is what I was saying in my earlier post.

I wasn’t talking about what racism is NOW, I was talking about how and why it started or exists in the FIRST place! It’s not exactly a rediculous conclusion to draw considering past wars, the conquering of people, and as I’ve said previously the exposure to new viruses etc.

The 1545-50 cocoliztli was one of many epidemics to affect Mexico after the arrival of Europeans. Within five years as many as 15 million people – an estimated 80% of the population – were wiped out in an epidemic the locals named “cocoliztli”.

European colonisers spread disease as they ventured into the new world, bringing germs local populations had never encountered and lacked immunity against.

The 1545 cocoliztli pestilence in what is today Mexico and part of Guatemala came just two decades after a smallpox epidemic killed an estimated 5-8 million people in the immediate wake of the Spanish arrival.

Given the current worldwide pandemic, it’s not hard to understand that wars and being conquered aside that in the past there have been genuine reason to fear those outside of your tribe.

Racism and indeed what racism has become has no place in the world of today. Again as I said earlier I would really hope we would have evolved beyond it by now. I hope we do evolve beyond it and that racism and race discrimination in all its forms is eradicated.

Some people just have an inbuilt need to hate something.