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Originally posted by smiley21
You can try and justify uf_pike's comments but I think if he was trying to explain his family, he could have done it with a little more tact. I am still offended by those remarks. I talk with just as much intelligence as any given person. I actually had someone tell me that I talk too proper to be black.
After all these years, we (not just blacks, but everyone) still cant be looked at as equals. It makes me sick. Do we really need to pass this racist attitude to our children???
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All tact aside.. You can really find some validity in what he said. He may have said it in a way that COMPLETELY put folks on the defensive but do you doubt that he was telling the truth?
Would you be less offended if he lied?
Think about the intercultural aspects of interracial relationships -- it doesn't always apply but it often does. Statements such as "White girls are trouble" reflect the attitudes of a culture. Remember the thread where we couldn't even agree on the meaning of the term "racism"?
(do a search for a thread called prejudism if not)