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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm white. I once went to a social event where there were about 3,000 people there, and I was the only non-black person.

I felt like everyone was looking at me. They weren't.

In fact, no one noticed me at all.

It was all in my head. I think a lot of the posters here should reflect on that.[/quote]

Really, PP?  What if you had to exist like this each day and didn't have the option of returning to your world.

Must be a real cakewalk for a child to attend a school each day where he's pushing down his feelings of being the other and who realizes he's only "seen" when he's suspected of doing something wrong.   Most boys want to fit into their environment, not pretend that they're invisible.

I'm sure you claim that you are colorblind too.[/quote]+10,000

+1000!![/quote][/quote]

Really?  I may be alone, but I found PP#2's comment to be fairly frustrating and unproductive.

She's certainly correct that AA children often face very difficult pressures.  And no doubt she's correct that a white person spending an evening at an AA event cannot claim to have felt the full measure of what an AA lives.

However, I surely think PP#2 would promote greater understanding if she'd tamp down her cutting sarcasm.  It's pretty clear PP#1 was [i]not[/i] trying to equate her night out with the entire AA experience.  She was just saying that sometimes people who feel like outsiders fear they are being judged as outsiders, when in reality no one's judging them at all.  Clearly discrimination and unfair judging occurs, but not every act of judging is unfair or discriminatory.

When I get a stern message from the school about my child's bad behavior on the playground, I might worry that it's motivated by the color of my skin, or by my accent, or by the paltry amount I was able to contribute to the school's annual fund driving campaign.  And sometimes, maybe it is!  But just because I always worry about it doesn't mean I'm  always right.  Sometimes my child misbehaves and deserves a stern lecture.[/quote]

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