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Originally posted by mccoyred:
I would NOT tell a white person who their role models should be because I have not idea what it is like to be white SO I would not tolerate a white person telling me who my role models should be because they are not Black. I would also take the same offense if a man told me who my female role models should be.
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See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. We are too easily offended. How many times have we fallen out of our collective seats laughing when a Black comedian tells jokes about White people? Let a White guy tell a joke about us and we'll call the NAACP or Tom Joyner to get a boycott started. How many of us are offended when a White person asks questions about our hair? Or if our skin tans?
Rather that be sensitive, I just respond, like I would to anyone else. If a White woman voiced her opinion to me about who she thinks is a good role model for Black girls, I wouldn't tell her she has no "business" discussing that. I would either agree or disagree, the same way I do with you all. White women have freedom of speech too. Who am I to tell them what they can have an opinion about. Whether we want to admit it or not, we have plenty of opinions about them. And we voice them. There's no reason to get sensitive when they do the same.