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To: Lane3 who wrote (5928)	1/12/2017 5:43:53 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 368035

You will be hard-pressed to find any African-American that will find that remark racist. And they are the only one's I am going to worry about .I was born and raised in Richmond California and graduated from Richmond union high school. My high school had a large number of African-Americans. And I was always friends with them. They trusted me and I never had one single fight with them and once they saved my bacon when I got blind sided by some white boys. Willie Green said: "let me get em." And they backed off. What they have told me over and over, is that it was horrible to be black because of the way they were treated. And if I was African American I couldn't stand it and would kill myself. Several decades ago a fellow turned himself black and lived that way for a couple of weeks. He finally stopped because he said he couldn't stand it anymore. See "Black Like Me". Racism is not complicated like you're making it. You either treat the African-American/people with respect or you don't. And having segregation laws is not treating them with respect and equality. Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by white journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under apartheid-like conditions. Wikipedia Originally published: 1961 Author: John Howard Griffin Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adaptations: Black Like Me (1964) Genres: Sociology, Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, Children's literature Awards: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award I honestly cannot believe we are ever having this discussion. <<Message #5928 from Lane3 at 1/12/2017 5:09:55 PM When you say I can't presume to know what African-Americans think is so much nonsense as to be breathtaking. In some quarters, that's considered racist.