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To: Lane3 who wrote (71945)	6/13/2008 7:44:24 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542004

When you worry about people thinking you might be "friends" with a black person, or that your daughter is dating a black man, and what WILL people say, that's bigotry. There really isn't any way around that. It's prejudice to worry about it because people are black, and it's bigotry to act on that prejudice. That's not to say my mother wasn't a very nice person, but in that case she was a bigot, acting on her prejudice. Everyone has their problems. I don't see the point in pretending they don't just because you love them. I've no idea what your mother's situation was, really, but mine quite assuredly was bigoted. She had stereotypical ideas about people of color, and she did not like me dating outside my race, and she made that clear.