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[AverageJoe90]

115. Institutional prejudice is a very real problem, that is true.

I'd wager that at least 90% of DU understands this crucial fact.

With that said, however, this does not discount personal bigotries and prejudices in the least: Yes, People of Color occasionally can be racist against whites. Women can occasionally be sexist against men. And there are even a few LGBT people who may distrust heterosexual people as a whole. But just as this is true, the opposite is also true: Just because someone of any ethnicity can be racist towards another, or either gender sexist towards the other, etc., does not at all disprove the fact that systemic prejudice is still kicking and screaming even in 2014, and that some people are affected worse than others by prejudices in general(i.e. white people are not the targets of systemic racism, men are not the targets of systemic sexism, etc.).

And in fact, personal prejudices are one of the primary components that keep the remnants of systemic prejudice alive. The former, sadly, may never be fully eradicated, but the latter certainly *can be*. And it's up to all of us to fix it.