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comradebillyboy

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3. I responded to you question about why I like
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 08:14 PM
Mar 2016

Hillary in your other post so I won't repeat it here. With respect to your other point I can only give you my perspective. As a white man I understand that I am a member of the dominant culture in America. I certainly see other races. I am a product of white middle class values of the 50s and 60s. I understand that other people have different outlooks related to their own life circumstances but I have never been the victim of discrimination based on my race or gender so it is quite difficult for me to see the world in the same way as a person who has been subject to racism. It's just not a part of my life experience. I am old enough to remember de jure segregation. I have gone to segregated schools and integrated schools. I remember my uncle's gas station in Albany Ga with men, women and colored restrooms. I know racism and discrimination continue to exist but I don't have any great solutions to these very difficult questions. But I do know everybody sees color and we see differences more than we see the things that unite us.

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