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Originally posted by AlphaFrog
If you speak as a slave, you are giving people like Erik license to treat you as one. Perception is a HUGE part of racism. If you want to be percieved as a slave, go ahead, but then don't get bent out of shape because people aren't colorblind. As the saying goes "You can't have your cake and eat it too".
And before I get further accused of being racist, I do have friends that are black, and I don't think of them any different then my white or hispanic friends, or for that matter, my Mexican husband.
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So if we are articulate, we then give Erik a license to accept us. And of course we want that. To be accepted by 'the man'.
I don't think you're racist, but missing the point that if you say you have 'black', 'white', or 'hispanic' friends, it's just showing that you're not colorblind either. We're not saying that's necessarily a bad thing.
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