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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (21548)	5/14/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Yesterday I was listening to a debate with California's candidates for governor (if you put the best ideas of all of them together, there might be one worthy office seeker, in my opinion), and someone remarked that within the next four years, California would become a state where white people were a minority. That has already happened in San Francisco, which is a mostly Asian city. I have even had the strange experience of being followed around an Asian grocery store by a shopkeeper who thought I must be shoplifting (with my four-year-old daughter in hand)! Now I know what some of the black people in Watts are complaining about with some of the Korean grocers down there. It doesn't feel very good to be a suspect when you are totally innocent. So out here on the Left Coast, people are starting to write articles about what it means to be white. I don't believe many people even ponder things like this when they are the majority, but since that is changing, it is an interesting thing to think about. In this one, a psychologist describes white culture like this: "Psychologist Judith Katz takes the definition of whiteness a step further, listing characteristics she says are generally associated with white people, including rugged individualism, emotional control, a penchant for strict time schedules, belief in Christianity and a culture that romanticizes war." There is also a little in this article about a descendant of Southern plantation owners who felt guilty, and went back and traced the black families who were his family's slaves, and got their stories, and wrote a book about it. His own family is furious with him, but he thought it was the right thing to do. There is none of the glamorous, romanticized South about it--just stories of mutilations, beatings, twins being separated, and generation after generation of men in his family having sex with their slaves, and sorrow in the black families that exists to this day, several generations later. sfgate.com