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With the election of President Obama the sensable belief says that America has not only come a long way in Race relations, but has infact overcome our racial shortcomings of the past. Ironically, there are millions of Americans who feel that the same racist, sexist, and other prejudicial practices from pre-Obama days are vibrantly as strong in this era of Obama. America is currently going through one of its historic growing pains. To have the first African American elected president during such an incredibly bad economic meltdown does lend itself to divisiveness. We are at the beginnings of a social tornado, hurricane even, which has the clear potential to wreck destructiveness throughout our social fabric. The more factions look for ways to attack the President, the less potential we have for solving our nations most serious problems, particularly our Race and other intergroup relationship problems. It may seem very ironic, but the electing of an African American as President has produced more evidence, then if one had not been elected, that there remains a lot of areas in our intergroup relations that needs addressing.Plainly put, there still exist a substantial amont of racism in America which people are burying their heads in the sands on. In our book 20th Century American Struggle, 21st Century Hope, we look squarely at our human relation issues and report that Americans need to become "mentally blind" as children are before the adults in their world corrupt their minds with biases against others. The truth is that most Whites are not racists', but they nonetheless subconsciously adopt traits from those who are. Another truth is that the attacks or insensativities towards lower income and poor people derives from a similar mindset as a racist. That's right! Discrimination against the poor is the kissing cousin of race and other forms of discrimination. To have or to develop InsightBeyondSight one must empty their mind of all it has in regards to social constructs and see things for what they are naturally.
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