Sounds like an all to familiar argument/disagreement I had with a coworker a few weeks ago.
She's claiming it's racist to think that whites and blacks are usually from different backgrounds, and completely refused to even listen to the fact that racism generally involves JUDGING someone based on their race. Now, my just trying to acknowledge that in general whites and blacks tend to have have different attitudes, different slang, and different body characteristics was somehow racist, even though I was in no way saying one was better than the other. They're just DIFFERENT, that's all.
We're all people, we're all different. As much as segregation of the colors is no longer practiced, there are extremely few truly integrated communities in this country, thus your race is still largely an indicator of what kind of background you are likely from, and therefore indicates how you may be different from those of other races in nearby areas.
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Date: 2008-02-13 12:45 pm (UTC)She's claiming it's racist to think that whites and blacks are usually from different backgrounds, and completely refused to even listen to the fact that racism generally involves JUDGING someone based on their race. Now, my just trying to acknowledge that in general whites and blacks tend to have have different attitudes, different slang, and different body characteristics was somehow racist, even though I was in no way saying one was better than the other. They're just DIFFERENT, that's all.
We're all people, we're all different. As much as segregation of the colors is no longer practiced, there are extremely few truly integrated communities in this country, thus your race is still largely an indicator of what kind of background you are likely from, and therefore indicates how you may be different from those of other races in nearby areas.