On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 9:40:19 AM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "barbie gee" > wrote in message
> hcrg.pbz...
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2017, Julie Bove wrote:
> >> India Supermarket.
> > ...
> >> 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.
> >
> > Whoever made that comment is a xenophobic moron.
> >
> > The only way different cultures will come to know each other is if we
> > engage each other.
>
> You would think so, and yet some people in this community are calling people
> like me (who do not sort people out by skin color) to be a racist. We were
> told that only white people are racists and we'll never see the problem
> because we have white privilege. Mind you, these are young people saying
> this. They didn't live through segregation like I did. They don't get it but
> they are still trying to school me.

A lot of white folks believe that racism is just a wildly exaggerated defensive stance taken by colored folks. My wife is a haole but she certainly knows what it's all about. She was raised by a Korean stepmom and had to defend her mom from the rest of the family. It breaks my heart to think of my wife and her siblings having to fight and stand up to cracker relatives/strangers when they snubbed/bad mouthed her mom. No kid should have to go through that.