Results: Do You Really Know What Racism Is?

Racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior, and the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Do you, in complete honesty, believe you are racist?

People aren't born with racist ideas or attitudes. Racism is something that is learned. However, not all racism comes from hatred. Some of it can come from fear and anxiety. People may worry that some groups pose a threat, whether to the safety of the community, or to the national identity. Ignorance can play a part in feeding people's racial attitudes, as can a need to belong to one's own group. Racism isn't always malicious. Sometimes the harm of racism can be done innocently, because someone may not know better. Do you feel you have passed down racist attitudes and ideas to your children and/or grandchildren?

Reverse racism is a concept that portrays affirmative action in the United States and similar color-conscious programs as a form of anti-white racism on the part of black people and government agencies; it is commonly associated with conservative opposition to such programs. The concept has also been used to characterize various expressions of hostility or indifference toward white people by members of minority groups. There is little to no empirical evidence to support the idea of reverse racism. Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States generally lack the power to damage the interests of whites, who remain the dominant group. Claims of reverse racism tend to ignore such disparities in the exercise of power and authority, and decades of systematic racism and oppression that is ingrained in the history of the U.S. And even though you may use the excuse that "it happened so long ago" and "I did not own slaves" or hundreds of other such excuses, it is counterproductive to erasing racism to even use these as excuses. The fact is that the U.S. in particular has a long history of "white privilege", and if racism has a hope of being a thing of the past, both sides need to be regarded as and treated as equal. Not better, but equal. Do you still believe that this can be achieved?

SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS AND CHECK FIRST ANSWER CHOICE IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE 2017 MOVIE "GET OUT') -- Director and screenwriter, Jordan Peele discovered halfway through the making of "Get Out" what story he wanted to tell: A horror-thriller for audiences that delivered a searing satirical critique of systemic racism. The "sunken place" that the lead character falls into when he's under hypnosis was a metaphor. It's "this state of marginalization that I've never really quite had a word for," he said. "The sunken place is the prison-industrial complex, it's the dark hole we throw black people in." This "sunken place" is indeed representative of "systematic racism", and it will take everything we have to escape that hole. If you saw this movie, did you get the concept?