Racial Blindness WIthin Cultural Diversity

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Racism is a huge problem in our country today. Everywhere we look there are people of a different race or from different cultures or ethnic groups. It’s unavoidable and is the biggest political pawn in the history of our country. Fortunately, I live in San Antonio, Texas - a city that has an apparent blindness to racial differences. I’m fortunate enough to live in the great city of San Antonio, a city where racism is virtually non-existent. The biggest issues of racism faced in our city are corporate or job related accusations of racism. We rarely see or have to deal with racism on our streets, on the news, or in our lives. The majority group in ...

... When a minority group is granted equality, why must there be special accommodations for that group? For example, all businesses are allowed to participate in the local Chamber of Commerce, no matter what the racial ethnicity of the business owner. Yet, there are African American chamber of commerce’s, Hispanic chamber of commerce’s, etc., that Caucasian members are not qualified to become members of. Isn’t this a form of racism in itself?Again, the differences are being emphasized. This causes racial tension. Until we, as Americans, realize that emphasizing racial differences, whether under the guise of doing it for ‘the betterment of a race’ or other reasons that are meant to

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