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Originally Posted by amj  I'm from California and out here, we actually talk about racial issues. I don't feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues; actually I love talking about racial issues. I learn, others learn, we all learn. When we learn about one another, racial tension becomes eliminated. At least from my experience, that's how it has been. |
I'm from California too, Midas Girl is also, I can hear her scratching outside my window, watching everything I do and keeping tabs like the loyal girl she is.
I would think being from California would make you stop thinking of yourself as what your heritage is, since every single race is mixed up here. How can you live out here and identify yourself that way? Whenever you go out aren't you surronuded by and hanging out with, all different races? I know I am. I don't know how you could do otherwise unless you're secluded somewhere in a small town where everyone looks like you.
So, you don't get the high road here, amj. I don't feel uncomfortable talking about it, but you're just so identified with what race means to you that I might as well be speaking a different language. I'm glad you LOVE talking about it, except to white people, who clearly are out of touch with your culture. And, you and I both know we're never going to see eye to eye.
Anyway, I've never really talked about race with my black friends so this is actually an awkward conversation. We just talked about stuff we had in common. But that was face to face. I think on the internet it gets much easier to to think you are different than someone else because you can't see the person, can't raise your voice, can't see how stupid this stuff really is, things like that.
Or something.