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[–]aukofthecovenantWhite man with eyes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's easy for any beliefs to spiral out of control when they're never checked against reality. This idea that people who are "racist" about blacks are that way because they haven't met any, is just the mirror image of the observed fact that people who don't live among many blacks have more positive views of them. It may well be that contact between races might make their beliefs about each other less outlandish and more realistic, but that sword cuts both ways.

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