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Old 07-06-2005, 11:30 PM
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Originally posted by valkyrie
Right, but not identifying as "caucasian" doesn't mean that you're not caucasian. You can be white and still concerned about the plight of people of color in this country.
I'm not saying that society doesn't see me as white or that I don't reap the benefits...I'm saying that race as a concept is terribly wrong to me, so I prefer not to identify myself racially. The problem is not that I don't want to be white...it's that I don't want to be any "color" and that's a separate issue altogether from my concern for anyone else.

And this right here drives me crazy.
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