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hmmmm...guess i could say the same thing; call is like i see it.

the irony here is, i suspect that we agree on most points. i agree with jade as well.

america is a racist nation.

my contribution in this dialogue is to point out that as tempting as it might be to say, "racism isn't my problem, it's someone elses problem," that just isn't good enough.

i must admit, it's a pet peeve of mine when white people, or any one person for that matter, proudly boasts that he or she is free of racism, then pointing to all the other bad people who are not so enlightened.

keep calling it like you see it. what you say has truth.

all i'm doing is pointing out the rest of the story that you're leaving out.

that much of the world is racist. if we are to change this, at all, then we must look within, all of us, and do the hard work.

just calling it like i see it. and like it did in my last post. and the post before that.

and to drive home my point, again, i was just pointing out the lack of logic in your points.

you wrote that no one cared about the 41 shots fired. i remember bruce springsteen writing a song about it. hard to get more mainstream than that.

you wrote that you feel that america is more racist than europe. that's how you feel. well, that's fine if that's how you feel, but there's more to the story.

and for those whites in here who don't know there own history, let me introduce you to it. america's racist cultural heritage comes to you straight from european imperialism.

we all can write what "we feel." but we all must hold ourselve accountable for what we write.

for me, defeating racism isn't a passing fancy. it's not a matter that i push off onto others, claiming that my best friends are latino and therefore i'm imune.

many of us are looking here for the recipe for change. it is found among those who put themselves on the frontline of social change, no matter how tough the battle.

everyone who takes pride in shifting the blame around the plate like unwanted peas will be judged by history like the passive german citizens of world war II, the non-slave holding whites of the south and pre-civil war who thought it was someone elses problem.
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