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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kid doesn't understand the implications of this, but surely the parents would, right?  Or do they live under a rock?[/quote]
I was born and raised in Colorado. African Americans are a minority in most of the suburbs and the entire state. The African Americans I grew up with were just like me, so I had no concept of race and racism until I moved away. So, yes, it is quite probable the parents would never think anyone would find it offensive, because they themselves did not do it to be offensive. Geez, the kid dressed like the man he was doing a report on. What if a African American put on a white wig to be like President Washington? Would that be offensive to the white people? Not at all.

I also have never heard of the group from decades ago that painted their faces black. Much of the population doesn't reseach every act that was done once that someone might find offensive.[/quote]

Um, what?  Are you trying to say that if you grow up in an all white neighborhood or if all the African Americans you know are "just like" you  :roll:, then you have no need to understand history?

Good lord.[/quote]
There's a huge difference between reading history in a book and being told that racism exists in other places, quite another to see or experience it first hand. The first is knowing data, the second provides actual knowledge. Running a marathon is hard, but you wouldn't know how the mind and body feel and react until you run one.[/quote]

So what's your point?  I've never seen a minstrel show, but I know that dressing up in blackface would be offensive to many.  I've never been around someone who called an African American person the n-word, but I know it's not an acceptable thing to do.  Just because you claim to have not experienced racism "first hand", it doesn't make it okay to be ignorant of it.[/quote]

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