Racism 2
Date Submitted: 08/19/2001 02:24:40
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 7 pages (1800 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 7 pages (1800 words)
Racism: The Disease of the Land
“Racism has been to human relationships what cancer has been to human existence. It is a disease that eats away at the very fabric of humanity itself. Rather than ending in the death of a mortal being, it usually culminates in war. A war of Nations Against Nations, People against People,” Oscar Peterson.
Racism is something that has been a part of our world since the beginning of time. …
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…because racists, in denying full humanity to others, fail to humanity in themselves. Like tribalism, fundamentalism, homophobia and all other shallow responses of one person to another, racism concentrates on WHAT you are, and ignores WHO you are. Racism sees only the label--not the person wearing it. Racism loves “us” and hates “them”, without ever discovering the true identity of “them”. Racism, like cruelty, is nothing more than a failure of the imagination,” Timothy Findley.
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