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JHan

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21. There are many reasons for that "invisibility"

Reply to WinkyDink (Reply #19)

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 12:50 PM

Jan 2017

The reasons in your case, maybe different to someone else's.

I am a young black woman, and I knew instantly what she meant.

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also Skittles Jan 2017 #9

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would like to hear it from her Skittles Jan 2017 #14

I'm saying, as a 67-yr-old White woman, that MO's experience is hardly confined to race, not to WinkyDink Jan 2017 #19

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I didn't argue that there aren't "many reasons"; quite the contrary, in fact. WinkyDink Jan 2017 #24

Are you familiar with Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"? JHan Jan 2017 #15

I've read it. Again, psychology is what it is, to wit: We see what we expect to see, and MO on the WinkyDink Jan 2017 #20

And if it's about race sometimes , why is this surprising? JHan Jan 2017 #26

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As opposed to, perhaps, the "only that" routine? WinkyDink Jan 2017 #23

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