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Originally Posted by Seanus
I wouldn't say in this day and age. We have been educating people for a long time on this issue but some people just don't want to know and would prefer to ignore schooling. Martin Luther King got the ball rolling many decades ago (1929-1968 RIP). There are 'baddies' on both sides but I always felt that the Black Panthers were redressing the imbalance whereas the KKK were rubbing white supremacy in their faces. I'm white btw. I'd be classed as a WASP but I don't like labels and don't see myself as Protestant. I was only sent to church when I was younger.
Still, we have these programs like Star Trek:TNG where humanity has overcome its deficiencies and prejudices and moved towards the collective benefit of mankind. If we work together on pooling our knowledge on the humanities, who cares what colour we are? We will have made our mark  |
God that is so true. Everything you've said is true, but that's the thing that really gets me. I guess it's something we can't do anything about, though. We can't force people to want to learn and know.
Star Trek has been a pioneer for race relations in entertainment, hasn't it? One of the first TV shows to have an interracial couple. Love it. But yeah, the color of our skin is basically defined by the same gene that defines the color of our hair. It's kind of interesting to imagine a society that defines who people are based only on the color of their hair, not their skin.