<p>Omg, I'm watching Trading Spouses. It's the worst. Not only is there this stereotypical "crazy christian", but there is this African American family who is totally racist. The dad is ranting about how in his ideal world, there would be no white people and he tells the daughter "all white people are anti-black" The wife talks about how she's African (um, she's definetely not from Africa) and her husband changed his name because his orignal name was representative of his family's white slavery history. And all this is to "get back" for slavery times and segregation. </p>
<p>This is so terrible! How do people expect to move forward if they keep living in the past? How can you expect racism towards you to stop, and yet say that it's okay to be racist towards them? This makes me so ill! I hope I never meet people like them in my life, and yet, I already have.</p>
<p>What do you think of reverse racism? Is it fair just because they are the minority? Or because they were previously oppressed?</p>
<p>I saw the episode too. The black dad, Abassi, was a nut job! (And I am black so I can say that) Actually, maybe not a nut job, but was totally misguided. I mean, his rants about rampant racism only help to reinforce the stereotype that blacks ask for hand outs all the time. More importantly, (if you watched the show you'll know what I mean) "prejudice for black people" is bunch of bs. That's how white slaveowners justified slavery "prejudice for white people". (Even those people needed to somehow justify the evil institution) But most importantly I agree with Mallomar Cookie "It's TV...get over it...they're trying to catch your interest"</p>
<p>I was just saying (with the title) that the racism that was occuring was the opposite from the norm. The tendency is for the majority to prejudiced against the minority, and this was the opposite. I know, in other countries, that the minority may be typically prejudiced against the majority, but, for the most part, that's not the case in the US. If the title was just "racism" many people would automatically assue that some minority was being mistreated and that's not the case here.</p>
<p>Distinguishing between "minority" and "majority" would be kind of racist as well (from the perspective of someone who lived in Europe and bears the eternal historical weight of social darwinism). :D</p>
<p>In my opinion, the very fact that our mind creates "group identities" (and as a consequence: stereotypes, identity defense, etc.) is one of the roots of all racism.</p>
<p>Jews, whites, asians, nerds, jocks, corporate wh**es... they're all generalizations that lead to social self-fulfilling prophecy. </p>
<p>And when people believe "This is my identity" just because they have a tiny, insignificant trait in common with others (such as skin color, cultural background, freetime activities)... they do everything to feed this belief and behave according to what is socially defined as that specific identity.</p>
<p>Thereby loosing their own, personal, individual identity.</p>