Thanks for the explanation, Retro. It's just a matter of reading your post a little more carefully... you say this:
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Originally Posted by RetroGunslinger
However, I never said anything about 100% of the black population, or even of the teenage female black population. I was talking about a general amount.
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, but reading your original post,
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And knowing how black teenage girls tend to react to those types of situations, I'm guessing she didn't take it sitting down.
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... does not leave a lot of room for interpretation. You include all black teenage girls, without qualification. A better way to put it would be, "knowing how SOME black teenager girls have reacted to those types of situations, based on this particular experience of mine... " might have gotten less of a knee-jerk response, that's all. Once again, I'm not calling you a racist (I'm of the mind that every single person on earth is racist, anyway)
... just pointing out that we can only know you by what you write, not what you think or believe. The joys of internet communication...