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In reply to the discussion: Gov Haley has called for the rebel flag to come down [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)children and grandchildren. You show them how racism causes pain in all parts of our society and not just in the minority communities. And you make them feel, and this may seem odd to a lot of African-Americans, like they aren't racists and like they aren't bad people and like they love people of other races just like they love people of their own race and that they dislike people because of their personal qualities and not because of the color of their skin and that the default feeling toward people in general is to like them until there is real reason to dislike them.
And Haley could start this campaign in her own home, church and social set.
You have a TV show that portrays the lives of Americans of different races who are friends and you make that show in South Carolina.
Just a few ideas. You portray the truth -- which is that when people of different races accept each other as equals and friends, racism ends. Right there. We perpetuate racism by keeping races apart. And there is resistance on all sides to any merger of cultures and colors.
We all have to decide whether we want separate and unequal or whether we want together and equal. Because being separate leads to unequal. I don't see how it can do otherwise.