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Ed Pawlowski

On 7/30/2017 2:21 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
> Here, it is people of color.

Right, colored people. Amazing how touchy people get over things like
that when they have the same meaning. .