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[–] greycloud ago 

lol this is what real racism looks like, it all stems back to not being very good at describing people because you are not used to seeing their faces that often. you recognize the reflection of your own face best, the closer someone else's face is to your reflection the faster you will recognize them. african americans have different facial structure than caucasians. they have a hard time describing each other's facial figures unless they are socialized into being able to do so.

black people are over-represented by legitimate criminals for whatever reasons you want to blame that on. so when one of them looks suspicious in a high crime area, the people who have not been socialized have a hard time describing them, and the people who are online who have a hard time describing them wouldn't even recognize the description anyway. so they just describe them in generic terms (hair color, height, weight, eye color, build, clothing, identifying marks). and a bunch of black criminals give the black innocents a bad name because the racist whites can't tell em apart.

real racism is not being able to tell them apart. its not evil, we are all born with it, it is the result of not being socialized against it. it doesn't necessarily imply that one has a negative view. most racists think kind of highly of asians. perhaps this is because asians aren't over represented as criminals with white victims?

anyhow this is normal human behavior, and is natural human behavior no matter what lies people tell you to make you feel better about yourself. it all goes back to your reflection though, and how your brain processes the differences between people around you. if you are caucasian you focus more on hair color and eye color than a black person or asian would. a black person focuses more on skin color, and pretty much everyone focuses more on facial features than white people do.