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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
I see what you mean, but with how much of America is right now (desperately trying to prove that none of us are racist), important black people are popular. This makes a black candidate an almost automatic, unwritten political version of Affirmative Action. I personally like Barack Obama, but I have no doubt that this was a large factor in his election. Many conservatives have also realized that his "blackness" likely influenced his election therefore are trying to diminish it to make him less popular.
I wonder how long it will take race to die, we need a global catastrophe to realize we're all humans.
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Now I see what you are getting at, and I think you have identified a real trend; people really have swung the pendalum so far from trying to sound racist that it is absurd and people call people of their own race racists over things that simply are not race related.
I don't think racism, or other forms of sectarianism, will ever be eliminated from peoples minds, even if the practicing of discrimination could possibly be legislated out of existence. People are, to a large degree, tribal and think in terms of "in groups" and "out groups". This almost certainly is hardwired into our DNA as it was a breeding advantage to keep your caveman ass away from strangers.
So even if racism, and indeed race itself, can be eliminated, there will always be sectarianism based on something. The balkans is a region that shows people of the same genetic race, south slavic, fighting centuries of wars over other differences, like religion. The religious fighting isn't even about the faiths themselves, or even by people who actually consider themselves religious. The religion in these cases is just an identifying factor, in that "we are Catholic/Muslim/Orthodox and they are not." Again though, the religion is not really important as anything other than a defining trait in the sense that it is seen as part of the national identity that Croats are catholic, Bosniaks are muslim, and Serbs are orthodox.