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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (60406)	4/21/2008 12:10:51 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543192

Again, you did not read what I wrote, or you would not be saying this to me. I did not put you in any group- except to say you were white, and probably not in touch with what happens to black people all the time. I can say similar things about myself as you say- yet I do NOT experience life as a black person, and neither do you, however wonderful you may be. When you mock Obama's narrative about how he felt, it comes off badly. You really could not know how he was treated, and I suspect he suffered some insults because of his color. That others might not know he suffered is not that unusual- children don't brag about these things. You can question Obama all you want, but I can question YOU when you claim to know better what this young man experienced than he does. And just because his fellow students did not know he suffered, does not mean he didn't. Racial put downs and slams are often delivered deftly in private, or in fleeting moments- where other people- blithe happy white people, for example- don't notice them. Your amazing sensitivity to black people notwithstanding, you aren't one. I'm not, nor ever did, call you a racist (any more than I am one)- but neither one of us is black, and neither one of us is privy to the nuanced insults people of color can suffer which may not be obvious to us.