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Miamiu1027
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2012, 09:22:40 PM » |
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racism always shows if you ask the right questions. I think it is largely unavoidable, a consequence of upbringing and circumstance, and should not be treated as a cardinal sin. and from there we could have dialog as to the whys of it all -- but this is just another utopian dream.
as a side note, I was stunned to hear in one of my classes in 2011 that the (mostly white) kids at Cornell were under the impression that overt racism no longer existed in the US. because the bubble they live in, as they get trained to take up arms at the representatives of the next ruling class, hides it so well: guarantee you every glossy Cornell finds one of the 5% of black kids enrolled to smile his white teeth for a picture. I probably would have been deluded in the same way had I not worked a wage job all four years: this part of my education taught me about "lazy ns" who want to get paid and not work.
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