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Bigotry

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SELF-Therapy: Bigotry

I often hear people express bigoted opinions about other people. I get angry. But then again, I realize I am not angry at them but actually myself for my own bigoted opinions. I suffer from much of the same hatred of certain others I do not understand as anyone else who is also a bigot.

The answer to bigotry is not hatred of people different than you but it's understanding where different people come from. People who are different than you aren't evil, instead they are often very caring good people who live in a different social environment than your own.

Are prejudice, bigotry, and racism the same thing?

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Are prejudice, bigotry, and racism the same thing?

"Prejudice is when a person negatively pre-judges another person or group without getting to know the beliefs, thoughts, and feelings behind their words and actions. A person of any racial group can be prejudiced towards a person of any other racial group. There is no power dynamic involved. Bigotry is stronger than prejudice, a more severe mindset and often accompanied by discriminatory behavior. It’s arrogant and mean-spirited, but requires neither systems nor power to engage in.
Racism is the system that allows the racial group that’s already in power to retain power. Since arriving on U.S. soil white people have used their power to create preferential access to survival resources (housing, education, jobs, food, health, legal protection, etc.) for white people while simultaneously impeding people of color’s access to these same resources.Though "reverse racism" is a term I sometimes hear, it has never existed in America. White people are the only racial group to have ever established and retained power in the United States."

Governor George Wallace Rally in Albany, 10/10/1968

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Independent candidate for President known for his pro-segregation views, came to Albany during October 1968 and spoke to a crowd of supporters and a much larger crowd of protestors on the steps of the Capitol. This video captures his speech and some of the sounds of the protesters at his rally.