On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:21:12 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

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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.
>>>
>>>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!
>
>In this area, the politically correct term these days is person of color or
>people of color. Could mean anything. Just not white.

Australian blacks speak of "blackfellas" and "whitefellas". I like
that better than the pussy-footing.