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Hiraeth

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15. Personally, I admire this person's attempt at trying to understand the black perspective. I am more

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:17 AM

Oct 2015

inclined to see each one as an individual with their own goals/dreams/attitudes. I don't think they are quite the monolith.

Demographics such as age, geographic and education help determine perspective.

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I admit I'm not following your point here. phantom power Oct 2015 #13

Personally, I admire this person's attempt at trying to understand the black perspective. I am more Hiraeth Oct 2015 #15

You know, everybody straight-up ignored me when I said months ago Blue_Tires Oct 2015 #16