Racism cured or only in temporary remission?

Ok, lets see here. Let me see if I have your rebuttals strait, just so you will know that I have integrated these thoughts into my premise, inference and conclusion. All the slaves in America are dead and gone along with their masters. Most Americans ancestors immigrated to America post slavery and thus played no part in it. Blacks in Africa sold their own brothers and sisters into slavery. Every ethnicity was oppressed at one or another time in history and black oppression was nothing unique. The Irish were oppressed greatly too, but they overcame. The Jews were oppressed too, but they have risen to the top. People of today cannot and should not be held responsible for acts of people in the past. Some of your best friends are black. You have dated black people. You do not see color. Blacks are just as racist as whites thus negating the effects of white racism. No one is a racist except those bringing up the history of racism in America. Ok, do we have that out of the way or have I missed something?

Notwithstanding these rationalizations, cognitive dissonance and intentional assertions (prevarications) are the facts on the ground, today, concerning the state of black humanity in this nation and world and how one reconciles it. Everywhere on this planet, black people are worse off than the non-black people in juxtaposition. Here in America, despite having ancestors in this nation for many generations, blacks are at the bottom of the social and economic ladder, save the Native Americans. In the Caribbean, blacks are poorer than non-blacks living there. In Central and South America, blacks are poorer than non-blacks living there. Even in Africa, blacks in Africa are poorer than non-blacks sharing their nations. This is unacceptable. But why are these the facts today?

It is how one answers this fundamental question of why, which determines their character. How does the conscious or subconscious mind reconcile this reality if you are black or white? The options are generally binary, in that this racial reality generally is reconciled to be the product of nature or nurture. Typically, most black people consciously see the gaps in social and economic circumstance as being the nurturing of centuries of exploitation, colonization and manipulation by non-black people upon black peoples. Conversely, most white people see these gaps not to be the product of others, but a nature endemic to black peoples. For example, many whites see the problems of Africa as the result of corruption. They also see the problems of blacks in America to be rooted in a lack of a positive work ethic and the inability to be responsible parents and not the accrued effects of past and present exploitation or discrimination. This is why it is ubiquitously suggested that blacks work hard like everyone else, as the solution to our problems, as if we have not worked hard since our ancestors were taken here.

The issue is not the truth or falsity of the proposition of corruption, laziness, intellectual achievement problems and irresponsible behavior existing among black people, for it does. The issue and problem comes from the inference that these traits or tendencies are endemic to black people, more so than others. It logically follows that if people recognize social and economic gaps between blacks and whites and reconcile these gaps to be the product of the traits mentioned before, then the inference is that these traits occur more in blacks than others. The reason being is that if one assumed that all groups have equal probability of producing such traits, then these traits could not and would not manifest social and economic differences between races because they would equally hold all races back and not manifest racial differences. Thus, what is really being inferred in the nature argument, is the genetic inferiority of black people, which some try to euphemize as “cultural inferiority”, or some other unobservable (innate) variable that results in black failure relative to whites.

In the end, the true test of character can only be accurately measured in times of stress and challenge, which Americans have not really experienced in the last 30 years. Primarily economic stress and or economic greed are what created fueled the oppression of black people. However, the economic stress could return at any time and will inevitably return as all great nations and empires have eventually fallen from their zenith and greed will never fade. Thus, when the stress returns, the rational assumption of black intellectual and behavioral genetic inferiority will give whites in the future the pretext for committing over acts of discrimination as they once did in the past. For when things get tough for humans, they tend to regress back to old visceral tendencies and behaviors that worked in the past.

In conclusion, it is not how one feels about a particular black person, for we all recognize exceptions exist to general rules. Thus, it is not how one feels about the blacks that they know casually or intimately, that determines if one is a racist. Rather, it is how one feels about the blacks that they do not know and how they reconcile the problems black people face in this world, relative to whites. This is why I am left to believe that most white people are believers in black inferiority and hence, racist.