Bigotry Is Ignorance

Bigotry is ignorance Bigotry is not meeting but maybe one person in a certain category. Bigotry is categorizing all people into the same box based on crazy things like religion, the color of their skin, even their hair color if you truly get down to it. How many times have you heard: all blondes are dumb? All old people are senile? All bald headed men are virile? Bigotry is no here near pure and simple It is also not totally absolute or self-assured. I was once told by Matt who was a racist against Polish people, “My sister could never marry a Pole.” I asked “What if the Polish man was super nice?” It would not matter. “What if the Polish man was kind to the entire family?” I would not care. I got serious now. This is America after all. I asked him, “What if the Polish man was rich?” Here is where things changed. “How rich?” “Rich enough to buy you a new car so you would change your mind about him.” “That would be different, he said,” no bigot at all, when it came to money.