Racism will just go away if we stop talking about it, just like STDs
So, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tells us more Americans believe there are ghosts than believe there is racism. Well of course, if you include the Holy Ghost. But I think he meant your regular kind of ghosts like Casper and Jacob Marley
Ghosts and all the other silly shows on cable about UFOs, Bigfoot, monsters and Ancient Astronauts always makes me wonder if the people who watch them are the same people who accept invisible sky creatures listening in from the firmament?
Is the reality bar based on how many people believe one thing or another? Or for how long people have believed it? Or is it only real if there is a book that says it is? Then again it just may be we believe only what we want to believe. After all, ancient astronauts is a far more reasonable explanation than a guy in our image who is older than the universe moving galaxies hither and yon while he listens to billions of people yelling at him.
Can we begin city counsel meetings with readings from Tolkein or Von Daniken?