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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, because all AA's display the exact same behaviors. [/quote]

OP here-- no, but when an individual of your ethnicity commits an outrageous act, do you not feel shame? We are all representatives of our identities to the larger world - ethnicity, nationality, etc. If this were not the case, concepts such as "White Guilt" or Germany's guilt over Nazis would not exist. I'm requesting an AA's explanation because before I add this to the "well, some AAs are just hostile towards me" category in my mind,[b] I'd like to have someone at least defend their case[/b].[/quote]I get that you're trying to understand what is going on but are you assuming that an African-American DCUMer would automatically "defend their case"? Why would that necessarily be the case?

OP, I think this is one of those things where you just don't know whether the guy was a racist jerk or just a jerk and you will never know.  I'm white and when this kind of thing happens to me it helps me remember that African Americans don't always know why someone treated them a particular way and part of the stress of being a minority in this society is often [i]not[/i] knowing whether something was a coincidence or just bad behavior or racially motivated.

No question the guy was a jerk.  The other stuff? You'll never know.[/quote]

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