Sure, someone somewhere is going to probably have a beef with you no matter what.
That doesn't mean that it is all equal though. The CEO at my first startup was from Mali. And he had a real confusion problem with a number of things in the US, like cops slowing down and following him on the street as he walked. I would try and explain it to him, "Dude, Cheick, you're black." and he wouldn't really get it at first. Because where he comes from, black is normal. I'd have to explain to him that random people on the street didn't get the difference between African and African-American. He didn't have it terribly bad. He wasn't told he couldn't head our company because he was dark skinned. He wasn't told that he couldn't go to certain bars with us after work or anything. But without a doubt, he had to deal with shit that I generally did not because he had really dark skin and I did not. I had shit of my own to deal with and always have. I honestly do think that class is more important in America than race in a lot of ways. But it is also true that race has a disproportionate effect on what class you end up in, so it is reinforcing. Race is not the be-all and end-all of problems in the US, but it is stupid to try and pretend that the playing field is level at this point. Judah On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dino wrote: >> I can remember. Oh, and its just as ofter blacks doing the attacking as >> whites, more often if your in NY > > Well that's true too. There is plenty of racial violence period. > > My wife WAY disagrees with this, but my feeling is that there is no > systemic country-wide discrimination against anybody or anything. > > As Mo sorta said, someone is always going to discriminate against you > for something, but you can go elsewhere and get or do whatever it was > you wanted to. > > It'd be great is that wasn't true, but it is. Too fat, too short, too > tall, too bald, too big of a nose, too black, too white, too nasty, > too something. > > It just goes to show ya, if it ain't one thing it's another: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_syuD-N_k > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276808 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
