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[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by LXA SE285

When I was in college in the '80s, an AA friend of mine had a roommate who had never even met a black person before she graduated from high school (her hometown, in northeast Alabama, was something like 98% white).

That is very common.

Since elementary school, I have become accustomed to being THE BLACK PERSON for the whites who have seen but never had a real interaction with a Black person.

It has always been fun being nice enough to get them to invite me to their house to meet their family for dinner. Then I ask them where the fried chicken is, steal their televisions and good jewelry, and my Cousin JuneBug and I go to the pawn shop. I'm joking.

The isolated and segregated whites tend to at least hear some mention of Martin Luther King, Jr, even if there's a negative connotation. They may have even heard their families talking about (insert racial slurs and negative comments). Point being, these people generally aren't blank slates. What they do with those slates, especially once they have the power to learn on their own, is up to them.