Originally Posted by Shauk

Man this thread is still kickin?

I just wanted to restate, just the point I was trying to make in the initial post was the existence of "reference material" to form biases, fair or unfair as they may be in the minds of people participating in this thread. I'm just saying things like how certain races are portrayed in the media, music, movies, whatever, didn't exist in the 50's like it does now. Back then it was just fear of the uncertain, now it's just a media frenzy of being scared because the TV told you so.

much like the news making you think that the world is so unsafe that if you go outside and make friends with the neighbor you might get shot & robbed, if you walk alone at night, that you'll get raped, that if you leave your car unlocked that it will get stolen, etc..

I hope people are clear on that by now. lol