by Elizabeth M Young

Created on: September 04, 2011

Americans will forever be changing their behaviors and attitudes about racism, but they will never change the mindsets that they use to construct their overall opinions, belief sets, and decisions where racism is a factor. This is because people are given their moral education and their major trauma when they are children. As they get out into the real world, they are guided by the moral education that was handed them and their mental health is a factor of childhood trauma. While some people are capable of making drastic changes in their constructs and beliefs about race, most will operate as they did when they reached certain stages of maturity. 

In other words, a person who is brought up to change, to desire change, and to be gratified by change will more than likely explore many mindsets in life. Another person will remain fixed in the same position. Religion plays an incredibly powerful role, and church or religious leaders hold great power. Those who stay with churches that espouse racism based in biblical or other mythology are less likely to be able to change. Most people will make minor or limited changes in order to function in the world.

There is simply too much racism in human nature and in American culture to allow for comprehensive or complete acceptance of people, regardless of their skin color or ethnicity. Even after decades of struggle to get equal opportunity for people of color, there are those who never stopped fighting for White supremacy during those same decades of struggle. Now the supremacists think that they have taken enough power to control the government and to undo the civil rights advancements of the past century.

One issue is the idea of giving more acceptance to "mixed race" Black or Hispanic people. This is based on Whites and others giving special consideration to generations of Black people based on their mixed race status. In other words, this new era of giving more acceptance to "mixed race" black people is nothing new in racism, nor is it an improvement. 

In fact, the real racism is in expecting that having a White parent or guardian somehow gives a child a right to special standing.

America, as a whole will never change their views on racism because "America" is a 300 million plus aggregate of humans with views that fall into groups or categories. There will always be racists, there will always be those who react to racism with racism, and the media and "mainstream of culture, including book publishing, theater, film, television and television news will always favor one race over another, based on whatever it is that is expected to make the most money. 

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