Part of what I was getting at earlier :
A) Stupidity, stupid people are more openly prejudice and less conscious of it.
B) Ignorant people are the same, but with raised awareness the become cognizant of their behaviors and attitudes and can make choices that change their own behavior.
C) Conditioned people can be mistaken for either of the above, but are closer to the example of ignorant people; except they are emotionally or psychologically scarred which is much harder to overcome in changing behavior than simple unawareness is.
C) Poor, repressed, and peoples that have been the victims of prejudice are often locked in to thinking in those terms because their survival depends on it or their world revolves around it. It takes a lot to break that cycle.
D) Underlying everything, slave mentality is still present in the forefront of racial discussions in America.
1) Slave mentality affects the former slaveholders(descendants) perspective as well as former slaves(descendants).
2) Perspectives and social stigma left over from slavery are still prominent in America, and any equality conversation serving to deflect the truth and add to individual ignorance.
3) Slave mentality is as serious as any psychological perspective discussed about human behavior, and as contraindicated as "Stockholm Syndrome."
