Reply #13: I know I'll kick myself for wading in here, because I really don't know.... [View All]

[OneGrassRoot]

anything about this.

But, what I want to say is that keeping other people's perspectives and perceptions in mind has been a helpful thing for me. I'm a middle-aged, heterosexual white woman who doesn't have a clue what it's like to have lived as a person of color, as a dude, as a gay person, etc.

However, I do always keep that in mind: that I DON'T know what others are thinking and feeling because, what they think and feel is based on life experiences I don't share.

You asked, "Where where in the HELL do BLACK people get the unmitigated audacity to denigrate other black people?"

I denigrate racist white trash all the time, because my experience directly involves them (I've grown up around them and with them), and I want us all to do better. In general, we have experienced similar things in growing up, yet how they behave is unacceptable. It's because I share their general life experience that I confront it directly. I don't denigrate all white people, just the ones who act like white supremists and assume they're entitled to....something...just because they're white.

I have a feeling Catwoman's brother is the same....in reverse.