Ed Milkow
Los Banos, CA
I think it’s time we moved away from the language of racism. It feels false to most people, and ends more conversations than it starts. Very few people would recognize themselves as racist, and, in fact, it has been my observation that racism – the thought that a group of people are inferior based on their heritage or skin color – has become rare.
But racial BIAS? I haven’t met many people that don’t harbor SOME form of racial bias. Sometimes we see it as cultural, sometimes we call it profiling, but it is a BIAS. Sometimes our bias comes from experience – I have a friend who had a bad experience with 3 Indian doctors, and now won’t go to another one. Sometimes from media stereotypes…
But I think if we can change the language of the discussion, more people will participate.
