Damn. See, this is why we shrug and say 'fuckin' white folks' and keep moving, or laugh and say, 'yeah that's life so what?' because if you really thought about it, *really* thought about it you'd go crazy. Hell, in america, we have to be a little crazy, all of us, to survive.
I'm amused that ethnical rants (even though they are at times quite justified) typically only revolve around the injustices done to the author's own ethnicity
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There's a difference to being "color-blind", or not seeing color at all, and deliberately ignoring problems. And I think people rant about their own ethnic dilemmas because that's what they understand and know. I don't know what it's like to be discriminated against as, say, a Native-American. I'm for equal rights for EVERYONE, but this happens to be what I'm learning about. I just think people keep pushing this "We've come so far" bullshit as a way to get out of having to make progress. We're not equal, and maybe we never will be, but I don't want to stop trying. Liberal hippies aren't racists, says Derek.
He'd know.
Other than that stuff, I MISS you Daniel. Movie night sometime next month. Thanksgiving break? Mayhaps?
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See, this is why we shrug and say 'fuckin' white folks' and keep moving, or laugh and say, 'yeah that's life so what?' because if you really thought about it, *really* thought about it you'd go crazy. Hell, in america, we have to be a little crazy, all of us, to survive.
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And I think people rant about their own ethnic dilemmas because that's what they understand and know. I don't know what it's like to be discriminated against as, say, a Native-American. I'm for equal rights for EVERYONE, but this happens to be what I'm learning about.
I just think people keep pushing this "We've come so far" bullshit as a way to get out of having to make progress. We're not equal, and maybe we never will be, but I don't want to stop trying.
Liberal hippies aren't racists, says Derek.
He'd know.
Other than that stuff, I MISS you Daniel. Movie night sometime next month. Thanksgiving break? Mayhaps?
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