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Ed Pawlowski

On 7/30/2017 8:24 AM, wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:02:21 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> 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!
>

What then, is the proper term to refer to non-whites? Seems it changes
every couple of years.