Octavia Spencer Quotes
We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.
Spencer, Octavia. Interview. The Guardian, 2016.
This seems counter intuitive, but Stenner is not referring to the reaction of all people. She argues that such programs do not change the behavior of those who are already tolerant and accept multiculturalism and pluralism, and and often backfire with people we would like to be more tolerant because the primary reason for their intolerance is an authoritarian personality. These people cannot fare well with all the differences and little that is structured as right. She and others who have had experience with authoritarian personalities urge that we not try and persuade the of the desirability of allowing a society to have many different cultures with no dominant norm. Instead, they urge that programs to make authoritarian personalities behave with tolerance is to take a very rigid and authoritarian approach. The Government has made laws that requires all American citizens to be tolerant of different races, genders, cultures, sexual orientation. To maintain the unity of our society, we all most behave that way. Liberals, often find this hard to do as to them tolerance is such a fundamental value that everyone should accept it as desirable and see its virtue—they want hearts and minds. Steiner argues that they should forget about hearts and minds reading tolerance. With authoritarian personalities, get the behavior and leave it at that. For them the moral appeal is to obey the law.
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
After Independence, the original credo of the Indonesian hero and leader was slowly ignored. The Muslim majority established Islam as the dominant religion and began to create laws that discriminated against Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews. The ethnic Chinese had been very successful in business and commerce and soon they were discriminated against and even physically attacked in Pogroms.
Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress, author, and producer. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is one of two women of color to have received three Oscar nominations and the first black actress to receive two consecutive nominations.
