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Originally posted by Sistermadly
What gets me is that people are surprised that this stuff still happens. I mean, I know folks are given to hyperbole sometimes, but you know, all us cullud folks didn't just decide that we were going to dream up a collective hallucination just to make white folks feel nervous, or scared, or sad, or insert-your-favorite-emotion-here.
It's like that movie Crash and why it makes me so upset - the only time (many) non-black folks have to confront racism is when it "crashes" into them, but for (many) non-white folks, we live this isht day in, day out. It happens. It's real. We're not all lying about it.
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I think that the behavior is so appalling that we find it hard to believe that people can act in such a way. I tend to see the good in people first and so it is always shocking to me when human beings treat other human beings so horribly. In addition to being embarassed about it, we also feel helpless because we don't know how to make it stop.
Dee