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Originally posted by starang21
do they sell rose tinted contacts?
andrew didn't take nearly this long.
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Hey I earned those rose tinted contacts
I was lucky enough to grow-up in a time and place were multicultralism was the "thing", were different coloured skin was just that a difference in the colour of skin nothing more - nothing less. Personally I wish that everyone had a pair.
Unfortunately even this wonderfully idilyic world was eventually shatter by some ignornant tool - in my particular case the old lady across the street who yelled something about "black devils" near her flowers... and being the niave 11 years we were we looked behind us to see these "black devils" - not realizing at first she ment Mathew and Jamie. Up to that point racism was only something from the movies or the happened in the "States" (seriously that how we thought as kids).
The thing is the hurt look in my friends eyes, and the inability of the "wacky old lady" to explain why Matt and Jamie were so bad was perhaps the formative moment that made me understand the stupidity of racism... a understanding only reinforced as I grew-up dealing with other morons; and finally cemented in the former Yugoslavia in '95.