"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> 9.45...
>> On Thu 27 Jul 2017 11:11:15a, tert in seattle told us...
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>> On Thu 27 Jul 2017 10:22:09a, tert in seattle told us...
>>>>
>>>>> "Good morning. A squirrel ate the tomatoes growing in my yard,
>>>>> that I had been tending closely in the heat, that I had
>>>>> fertilized with a tincture of seaweed, that I had put on a table
>>>>> so that they could grab a little more sun, that I had talked to
>>>>> because some people believe that helps them grow. He was a big
>>>>> fellow with haunted eyes, more dirty-blond than gray, with a
>>>>> long, unkempt tail, and he took from me my dream for a no-recipe
>>>>> recipe for tonight: fat slices of homegrown heritage tomato
>>>>> sprinkled with salt and drizzled with balsamic vinegar,
>>>>> alongside garlic-rubbed toast made from my sourdough no-knead
>>>>> bread. The plants are in tatters now. Farmers have the hardest
>>>>> job."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> this can be summarized in 3 words: first world problems
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2017/...cooking-email/
>>>>> in dex.html?emc=edit_ck_20170726&nl=cooking&nlid=8059 1572>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have enough trouble managing my life in our US "first world
>>>> contry", than I have time for thinking abought what goes on in
>>>> third world countries. There are reasons those populations are
>>>> there and not here, nor do I wish to have them here. Go ahead
>>>> and think I'm selfish and insensitive. I don't really care what
>>>> you think.
>>>
>>> how did you manage to get so much sand in your vagina?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Watch your mouth, tert!
>>
>> I'm not a racist by any stretch of he imaginaton. However, it's
>> interesting to note that in the deep south the black population is
>> hugely self-segregated. The same for the white population as well.
>> They may work together, but most do not live in the same
>> neighborhoods, nor socialize together.
>>
>> The same is often true in other parts of the US where there are
>> clusters of various ethnic groups who not mingle with the other
>> groups.
>>
>> Just because it can be done, doesn't not necessarily mean that is
>> done, or should be done.
>
> I saw that when I worked at the schools too, where I am there is a large
> poplulation of Hispanics, and always at lunch time all the ethnic groups
> pretty much self-segregated into their own groups while eating.

Some people are wanting to go back to that here. I had asked about a new
store. India Supermarket. It's very near here and I hoped they'd have
produce as that would be super handy. Turns out that they did. Very fresh
and nice but obviously tailored to what Indian people might want. But...
When I asked about it, someone actually told me that I shouldn't go there
because I'm white. Because of this comment, I felt a bit fearful to go in. I
actually was the only white person in there and much of what they sold was
not things I was familiar with but I did buy a few things and everyone was
really nice to me.

I just think it's weird. I grew up in segregated Wichita and moved here
where everyone was living seemingly peacefully, but now people are wanting
to segregate. It's not the white people doing this either. We're being told
to stay out of places and not even enter into social media conversations
because we don't understand.