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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I don't think there is much black people can do to improve race relations. I don't think most white people are reacting to real black people in their lives, I think they're reacting to an image of black people in their minds.[/quote]

I wrote the list about speaking more quietly in public, smiling, picking up pants. I live in SF, a place where almost all the black people live either across the Bay in Oakland (thus not technically in SF Proper) or in the Bayview. I work in an office with about 15 people, and none of them are black. But when I am at the mall, movie theatre or on the train, there are black people.

When I get onto a crowded train and there's a black guy sprawled across two seats with his leg up on the seat across from him and he's got a scowl on his face, I don't want to feel unsafe (or hell, even uncomfortable) asking if I could sit down.

When I'm listening to my iPod and a group of black people are on the train, it's reasonable that I should still be able to hear my music despite people talking with each other. [/quote]

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