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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (4986)2/5/2001 5:08:12 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
Karen,
This subtle racism conversation is very intriguing to me. It is something that I have noticed in an interesting microcosm. I have flown on Southwest airlines an average of 100 flights per year for the past 5 1/2 years. Southwest doesn't assign seats, so the airline is relevant. I am a quirky guy and I don't like sitting next to anyone. And I always sit on the aisle. Because of my quirkiness, I started to observe which seats would be the last filled based on who was sitting in the row. This way I could select my seat with the least chance of having someone sit next to me. Anyway, I select my seat based on an inverse of what I have observed the subtle racism/sexism/otherism to be. The seat that most people seem to avoid is the one that is next to a black man, next in line is a large man, then large woman. Another obvious one is erratics/antisocials (gang members, person with piercings other than in their ears). So when I select my seat, if I see a black man sitting in a window seat, I sit in the aisle seat of that row since I am certain that if there is just one seat on that plane that is empty, it is going to be the one between me and the black man.

Not sure how it fits into your discussion, but I was just talking about this with my father in law yesterday when we were on a Southwest Airlines flight. And I do think that it speaks to a very subtle racism that hits a large cross section of the population.
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