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  • Date Submitted: 09/04/2014 11:35 PM
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For as long as men and women have been on earth, they have demonstrated prejudices toward those of different cultures, religions, beliefs, and races. These prejudices have caused untold personal pain and even erupted in acts of violence and death. It is my hope that any light we can shed on the cause of these feelings may help us to reduce or even eliminate them. Rather than talk about racial prejudice in general, I will discuss the racial conflict that exists between African-Americans and Caucasians in the United States, because the tensions between other races have many similarities to this one.
First, a matter of terminology. Researchers from two major universities recently found Americans of African descent to be equally divided in their preference for the label 'black' versus 'African-American,' (Public Opinion Quarterly 2005 69:429-438) so I will use both terms.
How ‘Racism' Divides Us Needlessly: Problems Within a Race Are Caused by the Parents of That Race
Continuing our discussion from above, I suggested, 'The reason we need to see what's really behind ‘racism' is that racism is dividing us needlessly. We've allowed it to become an issue that is distracting us from the only real issue, the issue we have to address before white people and black people will ever live and work and play together in harmony.'
When I talk to adults who are white, the source of their problems is uniformly clear. They're unhappy because they're empty and afraid, because they have attempted to fill their empty lives with Imitation Love, and because they're using Getting and Protecting Behaviors. And white people are empty and afraid because they haven't received a sufficient supply of Real Love from the time they were small children. In short, unhappy white people haven't received enough Real Love from the important caregivers in their lives, usually their parents—and sometimes grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, teachers, and others. The lack of Real Love...

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