Mary Jo! For the first time ever I have to disagree with you. Just like there are different white cultures, there are different black cultures. Blacks come from hundreds of different countries. So saying you are proud to be black is exactly the same as saying you are proud to be white ...
EEGAD! I joined in a political/cultural/current event discussion! GROSS! I gotta go now ... Bye! :) On 4/11/07, Mary Jo Sminkey wrote: > > Just had to reply to this, because it is just SOOO wrong. The reason it is > different to say this is that being black has a cultural, racial identity > with it. It's not just about skin color. Just saying you are white is not a > cultural identity. If however, you said I'm Irish, and proud of it, no one > would object. Nor would they object if you were proud to be Hispanic....or > for that matter, proud to be an American. But saying you are proud to be > white is saying you are proud of your skin color at the exclusion of all > else...and THAT indeed is racist. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232304 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
