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In reply to the discussion: DUers of Color: Tell Your Story [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)23. Gladly, not one person is arguing that. In fact, you'r the only one mentioning it.
"But not every time someone pushes you is it all about race..."
Gladly, not one person is arguing that. In fact, you're the only one mentioning it... not that there's never irony in doing as such.
But I am however, quite confident in your further consistency to reduce or minimize any perceived racial aspect of our culture to anything other than a racial aspect of our culture.
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I think that he would have been less bold in confronting a man if he was alone....
bettyellen
Apr 2018
#102
You are absolutely right. I am gay also, and I was never in the closet. Exhausting yes.
Tipperary
Apr 2018
#19
True - but if I'd been a white man, he wouldn't have assumed I wasn't supposed to be there.
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#81
I'm learning that white people make a whole lot of culturally racist assumptions.
yallerdawg
Apr 2018
#17
As a young white enlisted man I bought a mobile home from an African American Sargent...
40RatRod
Apr 2018
#20
A few years ago I was shopping with a sister in north Florida a day or two before
malaise
Apr 2018
#21
Gladly, not one person is arguing that. In fact, you'r the only one mentioning it.
LanternWaste
Apr 2018
#23
He surely was. He got a LOT of attention! Glad to have you back. It made a big difference for me....
marble falls
Apr 2018
#54
Because it happens so much along racial lines...because people make assumptions about status
JCanete
Apr 2018
#55
I think she handled it exactly correctly. She owed him nothing in the way of explanation or
Squinch
Apr 2018
#110
What a perfectly ignorant and dismissive post. Not sure how it took so long for you to get flagged.
Squinch
Apr 2018
#109
Neat. I haven't come across anyone who lived there since I lived in GA.
Behind the Aegis
Apr 2018
#46
I will listen for a while, thanks...But as to the garage experience, you clearly would have been
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#51
Obligatory posting of "You've got to be taught to know how to hate" from South Pacific:
betsuni
Apr 2018
#90
I like the way you seemed to intentionally NOT tell him who you were or that that space....
George II
Apr 2018
#58
It was TRESPASSING damn it! As a white person I can always depend upon the police to bring justice.
hunter
Apr 2018
#65
Many of us got fed up with being whitesplained, lectured to and dismissed by "progressives"
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#70
I think of myself as not being racist, but have become incresingly aware over the years of white
Amaryllis
Apr 2018
#75
I haven't read the entire thread so I don't know if this video has been posted but this right here-
tulipsandroses
Apr 2018
#86
Interesting to get a little tiny taste of this if you're white when you live in another country.
betsuni
Apr 2018
#87
But I wasnt purchasing alcohol. I wasnt even at the check-out. I was sitting down by
Queen of the Iceni
Apr 2018
#98
Someone was telling me recently that the store checked the IDs of everyone w/the one who was buying
Honeycombe8
Apr 2018
#144
Experience and observation tells me that it's safer to not publicly discuss such things...
NurseJackie
Apr 2018
#128
The new alert system sucks bigly. Guess he got caught up in it. Probably unfairly.
7962
Apr 2018
#137
Can I tell a story from the opposite point of view? I'm white, and used to go with my black friend
LisaM
Apr 2018
#101
I'm half-white and I look white. My stories are about white privilege. (Bear with me.)
Iggo
Apr 2018
#114
The point of telling our stories is not to invite suggestions for what we "should" have done
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#119
The reason I - and most other POC on this board - have no doubt that it was racism
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#140