Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down 1684

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As usual with prejudiced persons, Nelson's heart was in the right place, but he really put his leg into his intestines when attempting to express himself.

Everyone is prejudiced, this is just human nature. It's the way things are, sort of a method of balance. The human mind tends to generalize in order to get a grasp on things that it doesn't have enough information to categorize properly. So, in this aspect, everyone is prejudiced to some extent, unavoidably so. This is forgivable.

What is not forgivable is people who continue to foster prejudiced opinions and outlooks even when they have enough information to the contrary.

I don't believe that Nelson is of the latter category, but I do definitely believe he falls smack into the former in that he obviously does not have enough exposure and interaction with black persons to be able to speak from any valid experience or knowledge. His error was he should have just kept his mouth shut in this context.

In lieu of this, his resignation is probably in everyone's best interest. Not so much because of what he said, but the fact that he even said it at all.

And all of these people with their cries of "racism" should just shut up. Nothing he stated was in the least "racist". It was very prejudicial though, from ignorance rather than malice.

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