Are we all racist and bigoted in some way?

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The diminutive Aung San Suu Kyi was the darling of the west as this sweetly pretty beacon of democracy in Burma (now Myanmar), fighting the feared military junta there, Mandela style, the West 100% behind her. She would be under house arrest for most of her young life and stand at the end of her garden on a box preaching peace and freedom to address the worlds press. Then, with Myanmar, along with North Korea, the last great closed states, the Myanmar leaders decided they had to let her into power, mostly to help win lucrative western arms and oil deals. Aung San Suu Kyi was made Prime Minister by 2015. Then, last year, she did the unthinkable and allowed the mostly Buddhist country to commit genocide on the displaced Muslim people of Rakihine state. The left’s fragile little lady of democracy was allowing the mass murder of Rohingya women and children. As the murdered had brown skins the west were not that bothered and some believe the people being displaced to prepare the land for oil exploration. But the left have been very quiet over their hero’s outrageous power mad hateful behavior and that’s telling. Bradley Edward Manning was another one who let the left down. He was the guy who leaked all the secret NSA files to the press and then went to jail for treason. Many said he did it for the right reasons until he decided he was really a lady. He was released as Chelsea Manning. To stay in the media limelight of good he/she had decided to run for congress. But Chelsea has been caught attending a far right Trump supporting event, not the best place for a gay man to be; perhaps reinforcing the feeling he is simply a risk taking attention seeker full of hate for himself and others. The lesson here is ANYONE can be racist or homophobic. It’s in our genes to hate and divide. It’s part of how the human race survives. We are born predators. DONT feel guilty if you have this irrational fear of different types of people. It’s meant to be there. It’s how we got here. I would like to think its binary but it’s not. Admit it to yourself. If those feelings are strong IN YOU then do less of it because of the hurt it creates. I guess it feels like someone calling us fat or ugly every day. Racism is different levels of ignorance. There is the worst kind where people need to tell the people they hate; they hate them, the most hurtful of all. Then there is the mid range stuff, like not letting your daughter date or marry someone of a different colour or religion. Religion is the best over for racism. Some Muslims look down on white people and call them infidels and would NEVER let their daughters marry them yet it’s always the white person called racist if the prejudice is the other way. Being white it’s hard to feel hurt from racism; I guess why we – whites- are the only ones who can officially be accused of racism. And then the lowest level, little things people of colour notice when white people ‘act different’ around them. It may just be a fearful look in the street at a totally innocent black guy they think is going to mug them so they cross the street, maybe, mentioning a stereotype in general conversation. But it proves white people treat non white people differently. That is racism. When you are trying to not to do anything wrong around a person of another race or sexuality, guess what. You are being racist or homophobic because you think you are different from them and aware of that. Ghettos were only one race lives are often created by the other race moving away to avoid them. I don’t think any of us can put our hand on our heart and say we have not been racist at some point in our lives.