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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i think that many AA people teach their children to distrust and dislike whites because they think we are all potentially racists. What I find amusing about this is that they are ignoring the many other non-AA people in our country who are just as likely to be prejudiced against them.

When the AAs become the true minority numbers-wise and have no allies on any side due to years of holding themselves out as the main victim minority, THEN they will really have something to worry about.

[/quote]Actually, other racial ethnic groups, especially immigrants, know that blacks are the most stigmatized group in the US and they know they can climb the ladder by also distancing themselves from blacks. Check out the book "How the Irish Became White," a scholarly book showing how the Irish were once sympathetic to the anti-slavery cause back when they were considered a separate inferior race by the English. But when the Irish immigrated to the United States they realized they could rise socially by becoming "white" and identifying with the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who ruled the country.

Seriously, if you want the dominant group to accept you, the last thing you would do is be friendly to the group they dislike the most. [/quote]

This is what Asian immigrants do too! Look down on AAs and rise by quickly assimilating with the dominant white majority.[/quote]

Why didn't/don't AAs do this then, too, to get a step ahead? [/quote]

You do realize the President is AA don't you?  No doubt this is due in no small part to his ability to integrate into the culture of mainstream society and assimilate white culture without the contrasting experience of living in a predominantly minority community.[/quote]

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