I think you assume too much Trish. Many of us have lived around discrimination. Discrimination and racism are the reason I moved back to the Chicago area after my ex-wife became pregnant with our daughter. I didn't want my daughter to grow up in that environment where using racial slurs, even "innocently" was common and just part of the culture. So don't assume that whites don't understand. One doesn't need to experience racism to understand what it is like. I think there are very few things in life that one has to experience to truly understand it. We have this thing called an imagination that helps us out with that aspect of things.
-----Original Message----- From: trish simon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 11:06 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 5000 year old wooden door found buried in Zurich As "whites" in America we really do not understand the discrimination "non-whites" experience. If it had not been for a job assignment that placed me in situations to investigate the discriminatory practices against minority groups (not just "African-Amelricans" and "Blacks"), I probably would not feel so passionately about this. A young man from Pakistan was dragged from his car and savagely beaten, just because he took the wrong exit on the highway. A group of self-identified "red necks" wanted to ," teach the sand nigger he don't belong here," the ring leaders statement. This happened BEFORE 9/11/2001. As this young man revealed his story, and his scars, it was just too much for me. Can you imagine what is happening post 9/11? That was just one story, there are others! So Maureen, and anyone else who thinks I should laugh...it's a not a joke, this is no laughing matter. As the population of immigrants who do not look like us increase, and we become the minority, let's just hope for the best. On 10/24/10, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, you read one book and you are an expert on the 'realities of black > and white in America? > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Ras Tafari <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> what's incorrect about her assumptions below? i know its not the majority >> but i believe you'd be wrong to think this below was not happening. i >> recently >> read a GREAT book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell >> and it was rather enlightening. until someone reads this, im not sure >> they can speak to the realities of black and white america. >> >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:36 PM, trish simon <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> There you go again... you need to educate yourself, REALLY!! >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This is especially true in the southern part of >>>> the USA, where you have large numbers of "blacks" who were fathered by >>>> the plantation owners or foreman, and larger numbers of "whites" whose >>>> mama was sneaking out to meet up with those brown skin boys. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329967 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
