percy

No, no and I need not. I can appreciate these studies for what they are but I also think they border on ridiculous at times. We all have defense mechanisms that alert us to what we may construe as safe or unsafe from what we have absorbed, learned,...throughout our lives consciously and subconsciously. That's a given.

I suppose it is the term racism that I have a problem with. I don't think that the notion of racism overides someones senses of being threatened, especially if one is out of their element.

I was in New York on business a while back and had an afternoon free so I went to Harlem, out of curiousity since I had never been in that part of the city before. I love old brownstones and wanted to see other landmarks as well. It was getting into early evening and I could see the streets changing. Not good to bad, just changing. I was thinking, ok time to leave, so I jumped in a cab and headed back to mid town

Am I racist? Hardly. Were my thoughts driven by internal racism? I suppose some psychologist would say that is the case but in reality, I was eliminating any chance if anything were to happen to me. I know Harlem is safe, but that doesn't mean everyone who is in that area is, of any race.

I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong. I just dislike the world racism used in this context. I think it is presumptuous and somewhat disingenuous. I don't have alot of faith in pschologists as well but that's a different ball of wax.