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DaisyFull
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If you still don't think racism exists...
DaisyFull
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Come spend a few days in Detroit, and it's suburbs.
I put out a request last night on FB for leads on local high school or college students that I could interview to babysit dd this summer.
Someone I actually really like and respect sent me a private message, talking up a storm about her friends step-daughter. How bright she is, compassionate, smart, responsible. At the very end she said "I hope it won't bother you that she's a "mulatto".
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Re: If you still don't think racism exists...
Nope. Not 90. Not uneducated, not ignorant, not even mean.
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What made me post it was when, you I think, asked for examples in every day life. It doesn't get more "everyday" than that.
Married: 5/12/07
DD: 7/28/10
TTC#2: 10/2014
But I never said it didn't exist. Heather said she sees racism every day. I see racism but I don't see it every day. I wanted to know what she was seeing on a daily basis that was racist.
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Hmmmmm. It's mind bottling.
As in pack up and move to a new city because this one is broken? LOL. If we did that every time we didn't like something, nothing would ever change.
Or perhaps you mean it's time some of us move to a new board?
I'm sorry; I wasn't trying to imply you believe it doesn't exist. Poor choice of words in my title.
eta: I can't type at all right now.
Lol. I meant move to a place where not everyone is not an ignorant a$$hole.
Married: 5/12/07
DD: 7/28/10
TTC#2: 10/2014
Utopia?
Don't worry about it. I thought someone else had said something and I missed it.
Unable to even.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
I was thinking So Cal but we can call it Utopia if you'd like.
Married: 5/12/07
DD: 7/28/10
TTC#2: 10/2014
Depends on what part. Since DH and I are a multiracial couple, we chose not to live where the racists are.
Married: 5/12/07
DD: 7/28/10
TTC#2: 10/2014
Where ever that is, it?s certainly not in the northeast US. However, it?s easy to cut the ignorant assholes out of your life. My obsessively racist cousin will never meet my kids.
Well we all know there are ignorant racists in the south. So utopia pretty much doesn't exist in America (go figure right?)
I'm guessing a bid for Arizona as the racism-free Utopia would not be taken seriously.
And I think I may actually see racism every day. Well, I hear about it on the radio and see it on the news. Arizona politicians are constitutionally required to be racist.
Maybe Utopia is Canada?
(Probably not, but I can never miss a chance to suggest people move here.)
But I honestly think racism isn't as prevalent here (at least in Toronto, where I live). But I'm sure I will now be accused of being naive/blind/ignorant/what have you.
That's Montreal. They will cut you if you speak non-French.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
Gawd. You are so naive/blind/ignorant/what have you.
Really though, can't say I've seen much in the way of racism up here either come to think of it, nope. Mind you, then there is the attitude towards Quebecers that some people have.
Le example. My friend's parents' 75 year old neighbour:
I'm all for french immersion. Just be sure and hold them under long enough.
Mercy.
Oh, Cinema Goddess.....
Whoa that's a huge ball.
Ballz.
ILY.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
Racism does exist. There is also reverse racism. I was told that I was racist because I said black not african american, when I said I am half black the person responded back to me "youre too light for that to be true" THATS RACISM well techinically its a bias but semantics....
YWIA
See? Totally languagist.
Merci.
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You don't understand the appeal of Benedict Cumberbatch / think he's fug / don't know who he is? WATCH SHERLOCK. Until you do, your negative opinion of him will not be taken seriously.
That's because Canada is a cultural mosaic, not a melting pot.
Please tell me you learned that in Grade 4 social studies too, or people might think I'm crazy...
Actually Montreal isn't too bad. Quebec City, however, is a scary place for those of us who speak Anglais (God, I hope I spelled that right...stupid 7 years of French as a second language. You did nothing for me).
I am sorry to report it is not better.
I mean we are talking about a city that was built on anti-semitic values, so why not all out racism, right?
Henry Ford was a huge anti-semite. He actually had a relationship with Hitler. He took in an apprentice from Hitler's regime, to learn the in's and out's of the assembly system he had built so that Hitler could implement it in the VW and Porsche factories.
Ford literally drove all the Jews out of the city. So they took their families, their businesses and their money, to Chicago. Good move, Ford.
We wern't taught the term cultural mosaic, but it was explained that Toronto was more of a "tossed salad" then a melting pot. I don't think the term tossed salad had been dirt-i-fied back then, lol.
...never knew that before. The racism I was talking about has its roots in the city's riots followed by white flight, then the poverty of the inner city contrasted against the wealthy suburbs. It is really sad what happened to the city and although people are trying to do positive things, it is slow moving and the problems with the automobile industry don't help matters. My parents both grew up in Detroit (the city) and really hoped to continue living there (and did for a great while in the 60's and early 70's while raising my siblings), but ultimately, they were part of that move to the suburbs. They're still sad about it and have such fond memories of what the city was like prior to the decline. I grew up in a primarily white suburb of Detroit and the blatant racism I observed would disturb people (I hope). I lived in the Detroit area again back in the early 2000's...same year of 9/11. I happened to live in the one of the largest Arabic communities...same kind of stuff all over again, just different target group.