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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What's really hard for me as an AA woman who grew up in MD, I just seemed like people used to try harder (our age - I'm 46).  It was not PC to say something vile.  I always had lots of different types of friends. Some of the things I read on this blog are appalling to me.  I always wonder if this is what my friends were actually thinking.[/b]

As far of the so called "victim" syndrome that is always discussed here - it's difficult for a people to walk away from their history if it's never truly acknowledged.  It's not helpful to say "get over it" or "my friend did it".  That's not helpful.  For any issue, people don't just get over it.  Especially, if the impact has been so systemic.

I used to love this forum.  Loved it.  Now, I hate to even come back because I have to brace myself.  I know Jeff wants an open forum, but I've been coming to this forum since 2003 and it's never been like this.[/quote]

A little younger and raised outside this area, but I wonder the same thing, especially after reading the "has your opinion of black people changed" thread here where people admitted they had good friends who were black then said yes they thought the worst of black people and that we were whiners and other stereotypes. [/quote]

+1.  I said almost this very thing almost a year ago.  That the most distressing thing about discussion about race on DCUM is that some of the people making some of these comments could be my neighbors, or parents of my kids' friends or co-workers - people that I would at lease consider "associates."  That people who KNOW me, know how I raise my kids and know my priorities could secretly be thinking this about me and my family. [/quote]

Propaganda is powerful as shit.[/quote]

Yes, even to the point where a White person on the other thread (has your perception changed....) said that the images that he/she was seeing in the media influenced her views of AA more than the AA people that she actually knew and interacted with regularly.  THAT floored me TBH. [/quote]

Messages are incredible!  Derren Brown, a British journalist, studies this.  Please, please, please watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gy_XdhN4h0

When you see a constant message, you can't help but believe it. It's why I believe that black women clutch their purses when a black guy walks by.  Ridiculous, but something we've been trained to do.  You will not believe how powerful subliminal messages are to you.[/quote]

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