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Over the years, I’ve observed that, regardless of nationality or ethnicity, a person’s level of formal education tends to proportionally reflect his/her capacity for racial harmony and the resultant peace with oneself.
(Although, obviously there are notable exceptions worldwide: For example, one very close relation of mine was left a despondent little girl after being forced out from Grade 3 in WWII eastern Europe to assist her single-parent mother in physically busting her hump on the farm, and this girl didn’t at all turn out to be a bigoted or xenophobic person; quite the contrary, in fact.)
Yes, unfortunately a person’s past rearing environment significantly involving a vilely racist parent or guardian filling the child’s mind with racial bigotry can act as a formidable hindrance to such desirable racial harmony. However, along with (especially higher) education, overtime the seed of tolerance can spawn and grow large to reason one’s twisted thinking away from childhood-ingrained racist sentiment.
Furthermore, not readily known by the general populace is that not only does such education fill the mind with knowledge, it also notably contributes to the development of the brain’s ‘hardwiring’ thus enabling greater cerebral function potential.
To advance Mandela’s legacy, the ultimate goal of humanity’s evolution into a world free of racism, I’m convinced that foremost there needs to be universal access to education—ideally, of course, on a global scale.
All of humankind’s minds need to and should be filled with significant knowledge before they’re tragically filled and thus corrupted with racially disharmonious, humankind disintegrating poison.

FrankGSterleJr wrote:Over the years, I’ve observed that, regardless of nationality or ethnicity, a person’s level of formal education tends to proportionally reflect his/her capacity for racial harmony and the resultant peace with oneself.
(Although, obviously there are notable exceptions worldwide: For example, one very close relation of mine was left a despondent little girl after being forced out from Grade 3 in WWII eastern Europe to assist her single-parent mother in physically busting her hump on the farm, and this girl didn’t at all turn out to be a bigoted or xenophobic person; quite the contrary, in fact.)
Yes, unfortunately a person’s past rearing environment significantly involving a vilely racist parent or guardian filling the child’s mind with racial bigotry can act as a formidable hindrance to such desirable racial harmony. However, along with (especially higher) education, overtime the seed of tolerance can spawn and grow large to reason one’s twisted thinking away from childhood-ingrained racist sentiment.
Furthermore, not readily known by the general populace is that not only does such education fill the mind with knowledge, it also notably contributes to the development of the brain’s ‘hardwiring’ thus enabling greater cerebral function potential.
To advance Mandela’s legacy, the ultimate goal of humanity’s evolution into a world free of racism, I’m convinced that foremost there needs to be universal access to education—ideally, of course, on a global scale.
All of humankind’s minds need to and should be filled with significant knowledge before they’re tragically filled and thus corrupted with racially disharmonious, humankind disintegrating poison.

I can't argue with you on this except to point out that having bigoted parents sometimes has the opposite effect. I had a subtly racist parent and rather than teaching me racism, I was sometimes embarrassed by it. I did complete 4 years of college and then taught in the public schools and I will say that if that experience doesn't turn someone into a bigot, nothing will. I got out after 7 years and can still accept or reject people on an individual basis and not on race.