Watch this video carefully, and see if you can find any parallels to the socio-political situation of black people in Iraq and black people in America.
How similar (or dissimilar) is the situation of Black Iraqis and Black Americans?
Let us know what you think!
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Attempting to draw parallels between the two is an easy thing to do. But that’s not the real question. Without diminishing the issue of discriminatory practices or its importance as national trait they are a challenge in any society. The recognition, sensitivity and response to it is a function our the culture and the experience within. If the point of the question is simply to draw attention to our own inability to eliminate personal and cultural bias, the premise fails to have the import it attempts. If the point is to draw attention to its basis in faith and spiritual allegiance, there is little difference in religious dogma that justifies or equates the teaching with the practices. It’s not sufficient to say, “We’re not prejudiced. They’re prejudiced” simply because we’re at a different point on the scale of recognition and societal recognition of the need to respond. The absence of prejudice is an illogical goal when seen as a product of one’s own experience and feelings and therefore not governable (While watching out for the “nut jobs” wanting to spread their fear and distorted visions to others). To practice organizational or public use of discriminatory practices in hiring, housing, employment practices and economic opportunity is another matter and is not appropriate nor morally responsible.