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Originally posted by lastpoetnsite:
there are two things that i think we are missing when we get angry at coral.
1. when they were at the restaurant (yes these folx mumble entirely too much!) mike said after he was talking about his uncle not hiring black people because they were "slower". he said, "my uncle gave me a pretty good reason for not hiring black people". which meant to me that he agreed. coral should've gotten pissed!
2. mike admits that when teachers talked about black people and events that he just didn't listen. oh so now he wants to listen? okay.
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I'll step up to this one since Coral got on my last nerve last night.
I agree she should have gotten pissed off at what Mike said in the restaurant. If he really never interacted with black folk before coming on the show, how should he know to reject what he was taught? I'm not condoning his ignorance, but don't we all buy into stereotypes at one point or another? What I thought was out of line is the way Coral was going
out of her way to be rude to Mike. I thought it was so presumptuous of her to assume that Mike would never take offense to anything she said to him. She was just like.. "Of course I never said anything to make him not to want to hang with me!" like it was unthinkable. I said all that to say this - yes, she had a right to get pissed, but she is too argumentative and self-absorbed for my taste.