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DuctapeFatwa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 02:47 PM Original message |
A Tale of Two Threads- Black Folks and White Folks on DU: The Lesson |
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JailBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. The best symbol of racism in liberal Seattle is its public school |
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Isome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 04:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. This is interesting. |
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Terwilliger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. I agree with everything except... |
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linazelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Excellent post |
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BevHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 03:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Yes, we still have our tribal tendencies |
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_Jumper_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. I thought our tribe was the United States of America |
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DrWeird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:05 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. "Us" depends on who "Them" are. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:24 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Oh you WEIRD DOC! |
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_Jumper_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 09:42 PM Response to Reply #26 |
48. Why cannot we all be part of "us"? |
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DuctapeFatwa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 10:21 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Because "we" ARE foreign nations |
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BevHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:07 PM Response to Reply #24 |
36. Jumper: America is a tossed salad, not a melting pot |
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Insider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 03:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. and an excellent reply |
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BevHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 03:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Well, let me tell you about BET |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. "Actually, this race thing is way complex." |
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BevHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
38. Hi, Karenina. |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Fascinating (seriously)... |
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linazelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. We make choices as to how we spend our time... |
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_Jumper_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:55 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. OK |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Fair enough |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:49 PM Response to Reply #27 |
45. Just for clarification, |
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Kanary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. Sapphocrat! |
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foreigncorrespondent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
40. Normally I would avoid... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Hi Linazelle! |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:18 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Thanks, Karenina... |
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_Jumper_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Why would you not watch a movie with predominantly Hispanic people? |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:21 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. actually i appreciate differences |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
30. I've always been intersted in diversity |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:32 PM Response to Reply #30 |
41. One of the things that made me crazy |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 11:31 PM Response to Reply #41 |
51. "trying to stay ignorant on purpose" |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. See, this is exactly why the reparations argument is wrong |
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Isome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 04:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. *tsk tsk* |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 04:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. reparations were never paid |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
44. I can tell you precisely why the "too long ago" argument is valid |
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Isome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 11:37 PM Response to Reply #44 |
52. Ahhh, but if that were the way it was... |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-03 12:37 AM Response to Reply #52 |
54. let me state the case in even more clear terms |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. Racism has gone underground and become invisible |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. I'm white and I see racism all the time |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 06:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. as the case of Shoshandra |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. There's a saying... |
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BevHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:11 PM Response to Reply #19 |
37. Shoshanna and Lori Piestawa -- blink, forgotten. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:18 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. yes |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
42. I see it, too, Skittles, and hear it as well |
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DUreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
11. Where is the white thread? |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 04:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. it's in the longe. eom. |
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DUreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 04:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. found it, link here |
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DrWeird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
25. As a self-admitted reverse oreo... |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. I think threads like this are so important to help |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:38 PM Response to Reply #32 |
43. Thanks Lars39 |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 11:11 PM Response to Reply #43 |
50. Willing to see, but I'm not sure the teaching will ever end, or should. |
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1songbird (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
33. You are a very good writer. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
34. Ironic also |
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carolinayellowdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
46. White privilege is invisible only to those |
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DuctapeFatwa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 09:21 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. "promoted to white" I love it! LOL |
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BevHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-03 12:54 AM Response to Reply #46 |
55. "Promoted to white" -- My ex, who is Japanese, went to South Africa |
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maddezmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-03 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
53. we see racism from both spectrums |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-03 01:03 AM Response to Reply #53 |
56. was just talking to a friend about bi and mutli racial folk |
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kaitykaity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-03 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
57. Locking. |
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