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Originally Posted by ladygreek
Regarding your statement about Europe I have an example that contradicts that. My half brother (product of my father and a German woman during WWII--and yes I am that old) was subjected to racism his whole young life. It was not until he became a national soccer star that he was finally "accepted." To this day he would not tolerate a racist joke.
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He was accepted at the surface level after he became a public figure. But as many "non-white" public figures find in many countries, you're still the same kind of (insert racial slur) as the rest when it comes down to it.
I know people who lived in Russia and places across Europe. These persons were shoved in the snow and chased by "Nazi" skinheads. This was in the late 90s and early 2000s. And this is just the overt stuff. Imagine what kinds of covert stuff is going on.
Race means something different outside of North America in terms of categorization. However, we aren't the only country where there are disparities based on whether you are deemed a member of the African diaspora.
Sorry, T La Rock, LL killed it. 
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