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Who's NOT prejudiced?

by tee
[ Racial prejudices?
In America?
What a surprise!!]
.........
Some right-wing member of the commentariat says that
President Obama has racial prejudices.


Well, I've never [knowingly] met
any American who didn't.


There may be a few;
just as there may be saints among us;
but I haven't yet discovered any such paragon.

Not even in the Civil Rights movement,
of which I was a part, around 1960-1963, down in the old Confederacy.
Nor am I free from prejudices
[which I struggle to curb].

I tend to trust Americans who say,
"I have biases and prejudices;
but I try to keep these from affecting my decisions and my actions."

I tend to doubt Americans who claim to be "color-blind".
Are they fooling themselves?

As an American, I have spoken first of prejudices within my own nation
-- among people of all ethnicities, all so-called "races", all orientations, etc.
I'm not saying you won't find ethnic prejudices in France, India, Belgium, Russia,
Japan, Britain, China, or MOST other countries.

By the way, some prejudices
[generalizations]
are negative;
while some are neutral, or even positive.


NO generalization will explain any individual.


Yet SOME generalizations, about cultures
(NOT about ancestry) may
be fairly applicable to nations or countries.
But that's anthropology, which almost nobody studies.


As for political rhetoric,
don't expect logic.


For clarity,
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