WHTT Racial Prejudice and Discrimination
By implementing society's obligation to ensure that all children are born with an equal opportunity to achieve, we will be able to significantly reduce racial prejudice and discrimination for the first time in history. Racial prejudice is an unfair but simple way that people use to categorize strangers as belonging to a group with assumed (usually incorrectly) characteristics. Stereotyping a stranger into preconceived categories is much easier than spending the time and effort to become personally acquainted with that individual. This short cut form of racial stereotyping is accentuated when there is an easily identifiable group with which the stranger can be compared. Unfortunately, the uneducated and very poor people clustered in some of America's inner cities provide a self perpetuating and most easily identifiable group which continuously reinforces the negative racial stereotype. However, as society prevents uneducated people from making babies, the characteristics of inner city residents will change to be more educated, more affluent, and less identifiable group with fewer negative features that reinforce the racial stereotype. As the reinforcement of the racial stereotype diminishes, so too will the prejudice which some people feel based on that stereotype. As the level of racial prejudice is reduced in the hearts and minds of individuals, the incidence of racial discrimination will also be reduced.
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