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[quote=Anonymous]In my younger days I used to just be surprised and say nothing when I heard racist jokes. I didn't hear them at all in my progressive, diverse private school, but when I got to college, it was 85% white and 70% male and hoo boy I used to hear offensive comments all the time. I just kept my mouth shut, even when they were about women. You just did.

I then moved forward over time, eventually adopted a child internationally at age 6 months and suddenly all that similar kind of racism came to the forefront. "What do you feed her?" "Are you keeping any of her original language?" "Are you going to get her into gymnastics or will she just play the piano or violin?"

People are DUMB

The "this is going to sound bad, but ..."

Finally a 15 year Og online friendship ended in that friend visiting me, she was breaking up with her husband and I flew her out for a girls week. My dime. But then somewhere mid week, once, when whatever subject came up, I'd had a boyfriend in college who was biracial and there was "the question" ... and when I asked her if she had really never dated anyone black, she said, "hell no, I ain't no N*** L**vr"

I also got the comment once, "well, that was mighty white of you" from the same friend when I think I was talking about taking a neighbor meals when her husband died.

I drove her to the airport literally planning never to see her again. I blocked her by cell and email same night, and only after that got a card in the mail with sharpie inside that said, "DEAR B**chI JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I HAVE A VERY NICE LIFE !!!!"

Well, OK then.

LOTS of stuff used to be able to be hidden by the internet and keeping conversations to emails. Now it's like that old Designing Women tv show joke about the south where they don't hide their crazy people, they proudly bring them into the front parlor.

All the crazy racists have been invited back into the front parlors of ... everywhere [/quote]

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