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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]Tipperary
(6,930 posts)11. We are so lucky to have you here to teach us bad white Dems how awful we are.
I could actually tell you some stories of being white in a predominantly black school, but you are not really interested are you? I guess as a 12 year old white girl, I deserved everything I got, right?
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Asking for people's perspectives isn't "bait." But please feel free not to participate.
EffieBlack
May 2018
#10
"Bait" in this situation is kinda like the judge who accused Mueller of trying to
Eliot Rosewater
May 2018
#126
It still bothers me. Something similar happened to me. I, even at my advanced age, cannot speak
Tipperary
May 2018
#54
You can't learn about race and its problem, if you deflect by trying to calling baiting.
Civic Justice
May 2018
#113
What's disruptive/divisive in this thread (besides the posts claiming it's disruptive and divisive)?
EffieBlack
May 2018
#162
I'm a white guy. Our youngest kid got all the recessive genes my wife had to offer...
hunter
May 2018
#95
They probably could, but I'm not asking about gender-based discrimination in this thread
EffieBlack
May 2018
#7
We are so lucky to have you here to teach us bad white Dems how awful we are.
Tipperary
May 2018
#11
Oh, I experienced it. My best friend. She committed suicide three years later.
Tipperary
May 2018
#36
Asking people to tell their stories so that others can learn from them isn't "divisive."
EffieBlack
May 2018
#35
I don't feel "baited" and told my own story down-thread. As much as possible, if we can see...
Hekate
May 2018
#141
As a white person, I don't know that I've ever experienced the kind of discrimination
Aristus
May 2018
#12
I grew up in a college town in New Mexico and there wasn't much racism. As an adult
Quixote1818
May 2018
#15
I don't think what I experienced was anywhere near what an African-American experiences
Quixote1818
May 2018
#133
I have nothing comparable to offer to the accounts shared here by people of color
Tom Rinaldo
May 2018
#43
I was pulled over by cops that assumed I was buying drugs- it was in my old neighborhood and
bettyellen
May 2018
#50
Three: I was walking up the hill to my house in a diverse neighborhood in a small city.
femmedem
May 2018
#63
I am white, I grew up in an all white suburb, and I never knew any blacks till after college
milestogo
May 2018
#72
Um, no, but if I was 20 years younger, maybe I'd tap dance and you could toss me some coins.
procon
May 2018
#85
No, I said exactly what I meant. Your comment is ridiculous,. The thread is great.
EffieBlack
May 2018
#100
If you're interested in a different POV, you're certainly free to post an OP asking for other storie
EffieBlack
May 2018
#142
Indeed. Perhaps if he "tapdanced" you would appreciate "learning new words from White people,"
ehrnst
May 2018
#186
Army related stories - in the Army I definitely felt discrimination from a few black NCO's
underpants
May 2018
#86
I just remembered these. I loved to listen to James Brown. He came our town and I wanted to go to
wasupaloopa
May 2018
#91
No but I went to another James Brown Concert. Just couldn't get enough of him
wasupaloopa
May 2018
#104
We lived in a segregated town and one time a black family was going to buy a house on our block
wasupaloopa
May 2018
#110
White, straight upper middle class man here. Decent looking and in good health.
GulfCoast66
May 2018
#115
When (fill in the blank) people move to a place where they're not the majority,
wasupaloopa
May 2018
#127
14 years ago I took my aging mother to visit her sister in Munster IN, a Chicago suburb
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
May 2018
#134
These dire warnings not to "fall for it" as if it's Russian propaganda are so funny.
betsuni
May 2018
#155
"I got to see what it was like to walk down the street and be the only white person"
EffieBlack
May 2018
#166
Thank you for this thread. Although I do find the defensiveness rather astonishing.
mainer
May 2018
#192