South just cannot give up racism

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2. How would you compare the actions of the Citadel cadets

with Tau Kappa Epsilon of Arizona State U's "thug party" to celebrate MLK Day, or the students who wore black face to a Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity/Alpha Phi sorority party at UCLA? Unless you were highly selective in what you read, you surely recognized that those 832,000 results for recent incidents of racism occurred all across the country.

South bashing is one of DU's favorite past times, but in reality it fails to shed any illumination on the issue of racism. Ignorance, fear of anyone "different", the need to feel superior to another group, or to have a scapegoat are not unique to any region (or even country), nor can they be dismissed as some remnant of a war that ended 150 years ago. To suggest otherwise, imo, is to trivialize one of, if not the most important issues we face as a country.

All whites have an obligation to confront racism, to attempt to educate the ignorant, to encourage peace within diverse communities whether our ancestors once supported slavery or fought to eliminate it. Just as all whites benefit from white privilege, we all also benefit from hundreds of years of black, brown and red backs being bent and broken to serve a white-elitist society. I believe the increase in highly vocal racism we are seeing these days, while certainly due in part to the election of our first Black president and the constant bloviating of idiots like Trump, is due mostly to the whites looking around and seeing their numbers dwindling. Perhaps a better title for your thread would have been "USA just cannot give up racism" because all whites, not just Southern ones, are in that boat.