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and off of their backs.

But Racism does play a large part in our US culture.


Take , for example , the Movie " Red Dawn". I have not seen the new remake, but as a child of the 80's, I saw the original. The movie follows a group of high school kids who form an armed resistance to a Cuban-led and Soviet backed invasion of the United States.They named their group after the school mascot: The Wolverines. Most Americans would view the " Wolverines" as heroic freedom fighters. If you change the characters from white kids to Arabs, those same people would call them " terrorists ".

If you made a public assertion that this movie should be banned because it promoted terrorism, you would probably get lambasted by the Media, especially from the Right.

If you used the popularity of the theme of this movie as an apology for Arab groups that fight to repel invaders ( most of whom would be thought of as terrorists by Americans), you would get lynched.


Sure, it is due ( in part) to media inundation of the " American Patriot " model ( i.e. patriotism means "shut up and let the wealthy elites do what they want), but it all stems from racism.