On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:02:21 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"dsi1" > wrote in message
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>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.

You wrote "colored folks" and you think you're not a racist/bigot...
you are!

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>I know it still exists but I get angry when people accuse me of being a
>racist and not knowing it. The reason? I spoke to them. Since I am not
>whatever their race is, they said I should not have said a thing. The
>problem? This was a FB post. I couldn't tell what race they were based on
>their name or pic, not that either thing mattered to me. They said I should
>just speak to other white people. But my friends are not all white and even
>some who are, are or were married to people of other races or have adopted
>children of other races. I'm sure these whiners would complain about this
>too.