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[quote=Anonymous]You completely missed the point. The point is at we talk about skin and hair. Some is good some is bad. No big deal.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To those who think that black people are too sensitive, how do you feel when someone drops something like this:
I actually do not like the way redheads look, at all. I see may white parents go on about cute redheaded kids. Some are faking it because I know a few whites who also hate red hair too. What if I said to a parent of a redhead "oh, it does not look[i] so[/i] bad, maybe as he gets older it will change"? Would that be hurtful?

I have had countless white people make silly comments about dark skin or kinky hair that sound just like that.

Another example, I hate short legs. What if I told my short legged friends that there are a whole host of things that they could do to make their legs look longer. To me that would be a put down. 
Come on people, we all have an Achilles heel. Try not to aim for that, we are not overly sensitive.[/quote]

We talk about good skin and bad skin all the time. We also talk about good hair and bad hair.

For example, I am Irish and my H is italian. My oldest got the bad skin, mine, it burns and breaks out, etc. my youngest got the Italian skin, is olive, tans nice and never breaks out. When I was discussing this my black girlfriend was surprised we would just publiclly say one kid had bad skin. It's not a big deal.

Aos the oldest got the Italian hair, thick, and perfect all the time. The young one was bald until he was 3 and his hair is wispy and tragic, he will be bald when older.

It's a fact, I still think they are both beautiful.[/quote]

Have you NEVER seen red-headed, fair-skinned Italians?  Southern Italian roots here with 5 cousins who are all red heads who burn
I, too, am as white as they come - with green eyes and light, straight hair.

nice stereotyping here . . . [/quote][/quote]

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