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Originally Posted by Drolefille
No, actually I'm objecting to one divorcing skin color from culture and experience. To make a comment based only on skin color and the assumption that a person is one way because of their skin color is ignoring that person's culture and experience. To say no white person is worthy without knowing the individual white person involved individually is ignoring that individual's culture and experience. Do I make sense?
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean ... personally, I feel like a person's ethnicity cannot be separated from their culture and experience. (People who attempt to create that kind of separation usually wind up pretty screwed up.) No matter what, no one who is not black will ever completely have the same experience. It's just not possible. This means that non-black ethnicity is an issue for membership to D9 orgs. In other words, the whiteness (or whatever it is) manifests itself, at least to some extent, in a person's culture and experience, and that is too insurmountable a barrier for some to accept. Obviously, I don't see it as insurmountable, nor do those who voted on me. But I can see that it is a problem, and people (especially those who are considering pursuing membership as a non-black member) have to be aware of that and evaluate themselves in that regard.