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Well, I seem to have struck a nerve.
You go on, Shakran, in your world believing that you are somehow being altruistic while at the same time being insensitive and dismissive of the past. Where Chris Rock is a "racist" and black people are taking revenge on you for slavery by calling you "whitey."
And I will go on in mine, trying to be respectful of everyone regardless of their skin color, knowing that no one is out to "get me" and being thankful that my parents, and grandparents and their parents, etc., etc. never had to bow their heads and step out of the way of ANYONE.
And for the record, I don't think Don Imus is a "racist," either. You dilute the term with your blanket use of it. It's as if you don't really know what it means.
And I don't need a dictionary definition, thank you. I hate it when people do that. I mean in the context of American history.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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