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Originally posted by Dionysus
I think there's another factor too. From both personal experience and observance, suburban AfAms tend to be desensitized to a lot of racism and ignorance compared to inner-city AfAms. I don't think it is always nor often from a root of self hatred or a desire for peace. IMO, SAs are exposed to racism and ignorance more than any group of AfAms. If you did not grow up in an AfAm community, you did not have a safe haven away from it all, except for the home. You had to deal w/ that type of BS 24-7. As a result, I believe at that point either two things happen: you develop a thick skin or you become completely consumed with anger.
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Thanks for sharing the information about desensitization. For a while, I was in the state that you describe above until I decided that I was going to change it.
I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of San Diego, but I stopped going to school in my neighborhood in 1971 (yeah, I'm old
)because there was no mentally gifted minor program there. From 1976 to 1982, I was bused out to PW junior high and high schools.