why do I still read this crap??
> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:02:21 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"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.
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>>A lot of white folks believe that racism is just a wildly exaggerated
>>defensive stance taken by colored folks.
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> You wrote "colored folks" and you think you're not a racist/bigot...
> you are!
In this area, the politically correct term these days is person of color or
people of color. Could mean anything. Just not white.
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