Is the bad history of race relations in the U.S. just fueling bad race relations today? Wouldn't it make more sense to try to forget all that stuff to make it easier for everyone to get along? This is a hypothetical situation of course.
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Yes, I believe that it is part of why race relations stink today. However, in order to forget it, ALL sides would have to forget and history, itself, would have to be obliterated. Just by teaching history itself the problems would continue. The parts of history that would have to be obliterated are rather huge... much more than slavery or the genocide against the Native Americans. You would have to get into the Chinese railroad "workers," remove WWI and WWII to get rid of prejudice against those involved, and more. Do not forget the Japanese/American "interment" camps of WWII or the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments. Even at that, mankind's sadly natural proclivities for racism would mean that, even if history was obliterated, racism would not be dead. With that "clean slate" and mankind's natural proclivities towards racism, the old adage "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" might come into play.
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Simple answer...yes. Problem; it seems that everyone won't forget all that stuff and let it go. For that we would have to get rid of all the awards, shows, and everything else geared just towards one race and instead put everyone in one category. I would love to see that happen in my lifetime.
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flag this!
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No. Impractical and unrealistic for a variety reasons. But simply put: those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. You can't unring this bell. Attempting to do so would simply end up marginalizing the contributions and struggles of one group or another. Read 1984, I don't want to allow widespread revisionist historiography. The scrolls are bad enough as it is now.
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