@Jameswuds:
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This is an incredibly complex problem with no easy answer. At this stage, unfortunately, it's life. I read your entire post and tried really hard to formulate some kind of an answer or at least some kind of direction towards an answer but… there just isn't one. It's life. It's unfair. It's frightening and it seems like it's impossible to overcome.
But despite that there are people that are making strides against the mentalities that you've talked about. There are plenty of people now, more than I've ever seen before, taking a stand against these mentalities. Against the injustices of discrimination, the fallibility of profiling and the very mentalities that perpetuate them. Is that to say it's working? Obviously it's only making isolated progress. But it is there and it is spreading. And right now, these stands and these commitments to becoming counter-culture to the current status quo is all we have going for us right now if we want to see a truly equal public.
Maybe there's something else, maybe there's something I'm missing. I don't know. I'm not well-versed enough in these issues in order to offer something substantive for you to hold on to. But I would definitely like you to know that these seemingly pervasive discriminations are not reflective of how every individual feels. I could talk about New Orleans where I live nearby or the line blurring in my own life being raised in a Spanish household and baptized through a "black" church while I, myself, am white. But to be frank, what good would it do? I'm of the same mind as you are. That we are people.
That's the mentality that needs to become more pervasive. And the only thing we can really do to help that movement is perpetuate it for ourselves. Be brothers and sisters to one another and try to resolve these problems with clear eyes. All we can do is try, one person at a time, to change perspectives from not being able to see logic to simply not being able to see color.
And I won't lie, people's heads are hard as fuck. Their prejudices are thicker than their freaking skulls. That's why you need words strong enough to bash their heads in. Pointblank logic, shit that will really fuck with them. It's all any of us can do. Become more educated on the situations all over, what makes them each unique and what could potentially be done to resolve it.
To be honest it's been messing with me for a few years too.