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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I didn't refer to an "offensive" paragraph. And I wonder if you would find "racist" an appropriate word to describe someone who is afraid of black men and utters ethnic and racist stereotypes. I might, but I probably wouldn't refer to such a person an a typical white person.
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Considering that in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, Obama's grandmother would have been 33, I'd say it's fair to say that her attitudes were typical for her generation. I know, he didn't specifically say that. I also know that he grew up as a bi-racial kid during a time that it was extremely frowned upon. I'd like to believe that it's not typical now, but I've heard enough to believe that racism is still pretty active. I'm still shocked that the "n" word comes out of some people's mouths as easily as it does. I watched our school board, in 1983, harass a new kid in school for more and more proof of residency when he moved into our area until he finally gave up and went back to his old high school for his senior year because he was the first African American to ever come to our school district. I saw it rampant in the generation before me. I see it less in my generation. I see it even less in my daughter's generation, thank goodness. It's becoming less typical, it's taking generations and generations but it's still there. We have to look a little harder for it when we're white because we're not the target, but it's clear from threads on here, that our African American posters on GC see it a lot more.