The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114846 Message #2462689
Posted By: Little Hawk
10-Oct-08 - 09:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Debates: Members Only
Subject: RE: BS: The Debates: Members Only
It has to do with fear, Ebbie, fear that is deeply bound up in the ghosts of America's past and the realities of America's present.
Many Whites fear Blacks. Many Blacks fear Whites. That is something that's really happening, and you can feel it on the streets of American cities. You can feel it on the streets of Canadian cities too, though to a lesser extent. Yes, and guilt is a part of it, and the sense of being among a group of "victims of prejudice" is a part of it, but the guilt and the victimhood is overshadowed in many cases by the fear.
Those fearful images are reinforced in people's minds over and over again by our movies, our media, our popular entertainment.