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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family is from rural Kansas. There weren’t black people in their town. It was a farming town and pretty much all white. Theirs was settled by Germans and still had a lot of German customs. If there were 8% blacks in Kansas, they were more likely in the big cities. [/quote]

Exactly. Context of the place and time. [/quote]

That’s not an excuse to people who raise this issue.  The past must be reimagined to confirm with DEI standards because that is how it always should have been.  If you object to that you’re a racist.  [/quote]

God, you wear that crown of thorns tightly.

No on is asking you to reimagine or conform to current views. But part of changing things is to acknowledge the past and, yes, some of these movies lacked appropriate representation. And deliberately so. Further, some were outright racist. It was acceptable then; it is not now. And while I watch those movies I don't have the rose colored lenses of "the good old days" and I don't deny what they were.

You're not a racist in the way you are putting it forth. But you definitely don't seem to want to do anything about systemic racism (or any other 'ism) or acknowledge implicit biases. That is a form of racism, hon. [/quote]

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