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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I think my understanding of "understanding what it is to be black" is basically what you're talking about here. Anything that can be learned through education, should be. When I say that I can't truly understand what's is like to be black it is because I cannot live a second life where I actually experience being black. While currently I am not completely, or even sufficiently, educated on these things I do strive to become more so.
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I see. But even after becoming educated on such things, that doesn't mean you have it in your heart to devote a lifetime commitment to such things. That applies to any organization with a particular type of interest and philanthropy-base.
It's easy to read about things or even see things in passing, but to choose (or be forced) to experience them directly or indirectly is another matter. Many nonblacks have only a passing understanding or concern for things that can be considered in blacks' histories and experiences. They are nonblack members of a BGLO in one setting and switch up completely as soon as they take off their 'nalia and get around other nonblacks.
If starang21 actually hung with other nonblacks, he might've been like that too. Then I'd have to leave him.
