Are you really not racist?
By misheleen73
@misheleen73 (6037)
United States
March 11, 2007 6:03pm CST
A friend recently posed this question to a group of us. You are at an airport, you claim you are not a racist. You are in line to board the plane and you see a group of 3 Muslim looking young men. Do you get nervous? Do you not board the plane? Or do you continue on your way as it makes no difference to you? I want honest answers, not politically correct answers as we all answered honestly in our group and after I receive your answers, I will post our group of 5 people's responses.
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@eslproofreader (517)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Nearly all of us are racist. Even being sympathetic to a minority group is somewhat racist. I think that I'm sympathetic to African Americans, but that, in reality, means that I see them as different from me ('white' American). Whether we admit it or not, whites discriminate against whites, Muslims against Muslims, Africans against Africans, even men against men and women against women. And we probably discriminate more against those who are 'more different' from us. Sad, but true.
@misheleen73 (6037)
• United States
12 Mar 07
hearing the responses from some of my group.. I agree 100% that there are a lot of people that don't normally consider theirselves racist, but when this topic came to light, they were definitely biased.
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Honestly I would just board the plain. Just because they are Muslim dosnt mean they are terrorists. For all you know they are just going on vacations or going home from vacations and are harmeless.
@misheleen73 (6037)
• United States
12 Mar 07
I was one of the only 2 people that would baord the plane as well. It just brought this topic to mind for me to see what Mylotters thought.
