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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the most recent PP. I just read the Tim Wise piece posted by 20:39 and was struck by this excerpt:

Empathy, which is always among the first casualties of racist thinking, mandates our acceptance of the possibility that maybe it isn’t those long targeted by oppression who are exaggerating the problem or making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill, but rather we who have underestimated the gravity of racial domination and subordination in this country, and reduced what are, in fact, Everest-sized peaks to ankle-high summits, and for our own purposes, rather than in the service of truth.

I am an AA woman. This is how I feel almost every time something racial comes on up DCUM. I and others have been slapped down and told time and time again that I am making a mountain out of a molehill and that whatever situation happened, I and other blacks must be clearly exaggerating or reading too much into things.  [/quote]

I am AA and I agree. It honestly leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Harkens back to the days of black folks not having a voice and whites telling them what they [i][b]really[/b][/i] meant/saw/did. Some people fail to realize that the days of dictating our actions and thoughts are long over. [/quote]

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