Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything that can be done for at least another 50 years...and that's a generous estimate.
All the people who are still alive and remember segregation and the N word as okay need to die out and stop teaching that prejudiced viewpoint to other people.
By the same token, all the people who are still alive and are propagating Whitey is Evil, The Man Keeps Me Down and so on also need to die out and stop teaching that prejudiced viewpoint to other people.
Unfortunately, not much can be done about the religious viewpoint that follows these same lines: brown people are muslims, muslims are bad; gay people are bad, transgender people, alternate lifestyle people, any people who aren't just like us are bad. Because even when the current generation of those die out, they've already taught their children who are growing to adulthood even now with this poison in their minds.
The other problem is as you observed elsewhere: people hate the "PC" aspect of it, and so are rebelling against it by refusing to do the respectful thing.
So in short -- I don't really have a solution. I wish I did, but I wanted to let you know I understand your stress, because although there are black people who will say it's the white person's fault, there is some fault on our side of the racial line too for hanging onto anger for things done to us generations ago that are not still being done today.
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All the people who are still alive and remember segregation and the N word as okay need to die out and stop teaching that prejudiced viewpoint to other people.
By the same token, all the people who are still alive and are propagating Whitey is Evil, The Man Keeps Me Down and so on also need to die out and stop teaching that prejudiced viewpoint to other people.
Unfortunately, not much can be done about the religious viewpoint that follows these same lines: brown people are muslims, muslims are bad; gay people are bad, transgender people, alternate lifestyle people, any people who aren't just like us are bad. Because even when the current generation of those die out, they've already taught their children who are growing to adulthood even now with this poison in their minds.
The other problem is as you observed elsewhere: people hate the "PC" aspect of it, and so are rebelling against it by refusing to do the respectful thing.
So in short -- I don't really have a solution. I wish I did, but I wanted to let you know I understand your stress, because although there are black people who will say it's the white person's fault, there is some fault on our side of the racial line too for hanging onto anger for things done to us generations ago that are not still being done today.