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To: epicure who wrote (71957)	6/13/2008 2:13:53 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542010

Lots of people can be intolerant about one thing, while still enjoying what they see as "atypical" examples. I agree. But we don't have enough information about Kate's mom or mine from the information provided to know if that's the case. I purposely used the word, "necessarily," to allow for just what you describe. the soft bigotry of people who worry about what society will think if they do such and such with a person of color. Guess we'll just have to leave that one at "disagree." a person who constantly and stubbornly holds a particular point of view I don't know what point of view you have in mind. If it's the point of view that society will punish them if they do certain things, like wear skirts too short, shoplift, or hang with a black friend, I'd call that realistic. In the case of my mother, I never once heard her say anything disparaging about any of the protected groups. She worked Jews and encouraged my best friendship with a Jewish girl. Where we lived, Jews were more the object of prejudice than blacks because there were only a handful of blacks. One of the latter was a man for whom my father got a job working with him and brought home. Mom never seemed to have any problem with that. The only time I ever heard her mention race was the incident I described. When she was elderly and living in a retirement community, she had both Jewish and black friends and seemed pretty oblivious to any difference. So, I'd say my mother was not prejudiced, merely concerned about what might befall her little girl.