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racism is a problem in all of us though. I guess it's natural. I find myself horribly racist and I try constantly to work against my base thoughts and generalisations (to little avail).

You damn afro-jew-polish-asian-hipppie.....what the hell are you?

You have to be at fault for something?



The whole thing is ludicrous. The fact is that people keep trying to categorize people by race in order to delineate their general behavior and market groupings.

It may be true that there are more blacks that score poorly on standardized tests than whites (percentage wise) but that does not mean that BEING black is the reason for this.

Unfortunately, when you say "blacks scored lower" on something, most people cannot seperate that statement from their own categorization and lumping of all blacks into a somehow genetically inferior group.

If all these studies would just focus more on demographics rather than racial profiling, maybe we would get somewhere. Leave the racial categorization to genetic/hereditary maladies such as Sickle Cell and stop trying to say that being Asian means you will be better at math or being black means you can dance.

:P