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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
If you think so. 
I find that minorities always feel the need to provide this disclaimer as if it makes them distinct and more acceptable to mainstream society.
That is a subconscious part of your being black and living in a racialized society. You feel the need to justify and rationalize.
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I really appreciate your comments, it makes me think more about what I wrote…I could give a flying fig is I am accepted into mainstream society, the best analogy that I can come up with is something I took from my life in high school…I never hung out with a core group of people, I went from group, to group, to group, and my thinking was…ok you're cool now, I'll hang out with you, and I did that repeatedly with my friends, they understood this and thought….ok that is just gwyn….I have never in my life (at least that I can recall) done something that would make me acceptable to the main stream, in fact I can recall a few events where I went against the mainstream and I came out fine. To be a little more specific….most of my friends don't like the same music that I listen to, most if not all of my friends don't like alternative reality gaming, most of my friends don't like sci-fi/fantasy, I do, a lot of my friends don't understand why I am greek (becoming again greek through AI)…..these are the things that make me, me and I hang out with that group, until I have something planned with the next group. I don't change who I am to accommodate that group, I guess the best way to put it is that, the only thing that changes is the subject matter? and when the groups come together, they are all find common group and enjoy themselves and I am the same person.
I understand that most of the mainstream will define me by my skin color…but that does not stop anything that I choose to do
The only people who I expect to accept me is my family and I am 100% that they do.
we as human beings love to label and then give an explanation…THAT is not a black thing
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