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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I stopped reading when it hit ten pages and just picked up the thread again.  Full dislcosure: I am white and I just don't get some of the posters, whom I think are white, are so worked up about the AA mom who may prefer that her son dates other AA women.  I mean, what is up with folk who think that a two-term black president means we now live in Shangri-la.  Really.  Look, I don't necessarily like it when an AA assumes that my life was hunky dory because I am white never mind that I grew up poor and was the first to go to college in my family.  But I get it because there is a narrative and meme perpetuated in this country that white folks are the best.  And if you keep pushing that for long enough then folks will buy it.  And FWIW, I really hate it when white folks assume that my childhood was just like their pampered suburban existence.  I am digressing.

Obama getting elected twice doesn't mean that we are a post-racial nation.  Some of these posts on here reek reek reek of unacknowledged white privilege.  Let's say that my white DD ends up the DIL of the AA mom.  I hope that I am raising her to be aware that her reality is not universal and to know her country's history, that the personal is political in the USA.

For those who wish that every AA is this country were a recent African immigrant - go look at studies that cover their lives two to three generations into life in the States.  Unfortunately they can't escape the racism from seeping into their mental health.  The problem is not "old" blacks versus "new" blacks - it is the legacy of racism.  Yes, this is not the 20s and 50s, but don't fool ourselves that there is no longer white privilege as well as outright racism.

And god, I love Ghana.  [/quote]

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AA MOM HERE AND I. WANT TO MARRY YOU!![/quote]

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