KENOSI MOSALAKAE | Afrophobia and prejudice with no power is harmless
Africans no worse off than they already were after racist statements
Racism is an attitude. It is unfounded prejudice against fellow humans who have a different racial identity, worsened by them actually looking different. The appearance being a consequence of the part of the Earth from which the human evolved.
Racism is inspired by a sense of superiority and is expressed in looking down upon the victim of the prejudice. Such looking down includes denying ownership of ancestral land. While the term "racism" is a general term, it is mostly used in describing a specific attitude of a specific race (of European origin) against a specific race (of African origin)...
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