Why are some people good at truly believing and teaching their own lies?

[Lina H]

That's one thing many white americans have shown to be good at throughout history, was teaching others their lies and then, they themselves start to believe these lies...(or just block out anything that contradicts a "white lie"

[Piscea]

Well, if we take the "color" out of this control group, we will find one group who has all the money and power, and other groups who don't.

When anyone has all the money in power at any given time, they are able to force their ideas onto the less powerful groups. The less powerful groups will eat the ideas up like gospel because they are depending on the powerful group to survive. Anytime one group is feeding, clothing, and housing another, the less powerful group will willingly soak up ideas like sponges. They have no other choice, and it's a form of survival.

BUT if the other group begins to gain power, money, and sufficience of their own, they will also begin to form their own minds, and henceforth, their own ideas form. It's all about power and survival.

Peace!

[(Angrier) Cas]

I ask myself the same thing of Fred Phelps almost everyday. How does he truly believe what he is saying and preaching, and how do so many people believe him?

I agree -- it has mostly been rich white Americans who are trying to perpetuate lies. Look at the government, for instance. It doesn't mean all whites are like that, but depending on where you go and who you meet -- many are.

The war on terror -- how hard to Bush try to get us to believe their were WMDs in Iraq? Only to make fun of himself years later with that ridiculus speech (if anyone recalls: "Ok...No WMDs over there....no WMDs over here....they have to be somewhere!").

Our history books are written by these rich white men, or are at least edited by them because hundreds of years from now, no child will know that we compared Bush to Herbert Hoover when the stock market crashed.

I don't know why they are good at it. Brainwashing, I would suppose. Money creates a lot of evil, and unfortunately, a lot of power.

[Allentown,Pennslyvania]

Lay offf of me I'm a white peson in my 20's I did nothing terreible in the past>>>

[whatever]

as an individual we choose to tend to believe what will benefit us regardless of race