Bias, Prejudice, Discrimination and Choices

Race and discrimination has been dominating the news this past week.
The Supreme Court's ruling that Affirmative Action is a state's right is so controversial that everyone has a pro or con view on this.
Then we hear racist remarks from Cliven Bundy, a man standing up for his rights and freedom against the government.
And, to really get the "storm" going, there is Donald Sterling, an NBA team owner's racial remarks.
The reality is that even before man roamed the earth, other creatures were biased over which ones of them were superior.   Just look at a group of dogs, there is always the leader and the subservient one(s).  Fortunately, among animals, other than humans, this form of discrimination is either accepted or challenged, and quickly resolved.
Humans, on the other hand, have always found something to use to set up one group as "superior" to another.   Hiltler with the inspiration of Nietzsche, proclaimed a "Master Race".
We usually think of racism and discrimination as something about a persons skin color.   It doesn't matter if one is Red, White, Brown, Black, or Yellow.   Each color has a prejudice against one or more of the other colors.   But it doesn't necessarily limit itself to skin color.
Remember the kid in school that wore glasses, and you all called him "four eyes", and would exclude him from playing in your group or on your team ?   That too was prejudice and discrimination.
Years ago, an elementary school teacher conducted an experiment dealing with prejudice.
She told her class that, "blue eyed children were smarter than brown eyed children".   Later that day, after lunch, when all of her class were playing in the school yard, she noticed that the blue eyed and brown eyed children had grouped with others of the same eye color.   Finally a fight broke out between a blue eyed student and a brown eyed student.   The fight was stopped, the children taken back to the classroom and then told by the teacher that she had made an awful mistake.   "It was actually that the brown eyed children were the smarter ones..."   And, once again the animosity between these two groups started to show.   Their teacher finally told them the truth...that this was a lesson in prejudice and that neither blue eyes or brown eyes makes anyone smarter than the other. 
So, assuming that all of us were the same color, we would then discriminate by means other than race; it might be tall versus short, or hair color, or nationality, or religion, or economic status or sex, etc.   These are all being used to discriminate today.   So, get over it !   Discrimination, prejudice, racism and any other judgement about others, has always been with us and always will.  
I do draw the line where someone could be injured or lose a life because of this, however, everyone reading this has both been discriminated against and has discriminated against someone else, whether you consciously know it or not.   Does that make you a bad person ?   No, just a normal human being.
Even with our laws, our political correctness, this will always go on; just more subtly and quietly.
I've had to overcome this in my life.   As an example; I was denied acceptance to a particular southern college because their "Catholic quota was filled..."   I don't even know how they determined if I was Catholic or not.
Bottom line, just be as kind and accepting as your heart lets you................