| | | Yes, as I am mostly hispanic, with some central african and native american thrown in. I'm the trifecta of who liberals claim they want to help. I mostly identify as hispanic and have experienced some racism in my life, including having people I thought were friends call me a wetback. But mostly, I have experienced the warm embrace of who Americans really are, which is tolerant and friendly people. Of course, I was raised to never have a chip on my shoulder. Truth is I've never felt the NEED to claim to be hispanic until recently when liberals made it a big thing. Now I don't like to talk about it much, because the liberals get all sympathetic. But I've had a good life and this country helped make that possible by being mostly color and race blind and giving me the opportunities to get an excellent education and succeed at the highest levels of corporate life. I am now retired young with plenty of money. So no issues here.
However, where I find racism is among ignorant people. And where I find intolerance is not really among my conservative friends, which I have very many of. They mostly don't care. All they care about is your ability to perform. My liberal friends are the ones that mostly make me feel uncomfortable, because they TALK about it all the time and they give me these fake, insincere "poor you" looks and words. Poor me? I was given opportunities and I performed. That's all I ever wanted. I don't need anyone's sympathy. My liberal friends mostly come across as wanting to feel good about themselves that they have a hispanic friend. I find that weird and hypocritical. My conservative friends don't give a shit. They just like me.
BTW, it was one of my liberal friends who said, "White men are the cause of pretty much all the problems in the world." How stunning and racist is a statement like that? She thought I'd immediately agree, because I'm hispanic and look plenty brown. But I recoiled at that, because it is so typical of the elitist and highly educated liberal left. They are racist and they don't even realize it. |
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