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As a multiethnic, multicultural but foreign person living in the USA, I am constantly surprised at the low level of understanding of racial issues in otherwise open-minded and cultivated people. It's racially prejudiced to say that someone who looks white may not address issues pertaining to people of color. This is because making assumptions based on one's appearance is wrong. Period.

For example: I look a certain ethnicity, but am culturally another: people always make incorrect assumptions about my origins, habits and proclivities based on my looks. Were I to write something about the culture I know best, would some idiot criticize me for daring to tread where I shouldn't? How stupid.
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I look like a middle-aged white woman, but in fact, I was raised by a black woman because my own mother was ill for much of my childhood. I can't say that experience has given me the perspective of a black woman living in America, but I believe it's why I've always been bewildered by racism coming from any corner.

I think we all have to power though this garbage called racism. There truly is no such thing as race. It's an invented concept (look it up) that has no meaning. People look different, but you can't make assumptions based on appearance.

I'm so tired of racism. Really, if you must hate someone, can't you hate based on something that means something? If you've got to put people into boxes, why not segregate bad drivers? (Or pedophiles?) Put all of them together into one box (a state like Florida, for example) and let them crash into each other? Bad drivers come in every configuration imaginable, but they all share one really undesirable trait. Let's discriminate against them, and stop discrimination based on what people look like. Just stop it. Racism is so, so stupid, and so exhausting. Enough already.

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