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"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> 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. .

Yep.