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Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte
Change is what is needed, not some melting pot "bringing together of the races" crap that some of y'all are promoting. We don't need to be "brought together" with white people.
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I agree that change is needed and we don't need to be a melting pot. I unfortunatly, don't have much of an ethnic identity, because my dad is 3/4 German and 1/4 Irish, and my mom is 1/8 this that and the other. My husband is 100% Zapoteca Mexican, and extremely proud of his heritage, and I'm looking forward to him teaching our daughter Mexican customs. I definatly don't want him to lose his identity as Mexican, and I want my daughter to have a cultural identity of being both Mexican and European. I think some of you are getting the idea that I think we should all be assimilated and be clones in different colors. I don't think that at all.
And I'm not trying to propose a fix-all soultion for all of black-people kind. I'm saying, as a white person, that poem does nothing to make me reconsider how I feel about other races, and it doesn't make me say to myself "Hey, I hope my daughter is that awesome at that age" like the other story I mentioned does.
I'm going to be completely honest and say I have trouble feeling some of the situations you mentioned, because I'm not black, or racist (I try VERY HARD not to be, no one's perfect). Someone mentioned, and I can't find the post again, being seated in the back of a restaurant. That's something I never would have noticed, because I am not black, and I myself would never have had the thought to seat a black person in the back of a restaurant when I was doing the waitress thing in college. Now that it has been mentioned, I will be more aware and watch for those type of things happening, because I think everyone needs to be aware of it. And I would like to say thank you to whoever pointed it out.