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In reply to the discussion: I recently found out that a visitor to my home considers me a racist ... [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)No single racial or ethnic group forms a majority of California's population, making the state a minority-majority state. Non-Hispanic whites make up 40.1% of the population.[12] Spanish is the state's second most spoken language. Areas with especially large Spanish speaking populations include the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the California-Mexico border counties of San Diego and Imperial, and the San Joaquin Valley. Nearly 43% of California residents speak a language other than English at home, a proportion far higher than any other state.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California
Blacks are not the only minority in America. At 3, my grandson is of mixed race and although not of a Spanish or Central or South American ancestry, learning Spanish in day care.
Here in California, all of us, regardless of our own race, live together and work together in harmony. At least that is my experience with one exception when one of my Black neighbors was harassed by some anonymous person (probably not due to race because my neighborhood is very mixed racially).
If I focused my life on my own race as you admit to doing with yours, I would be very lonely out here in California and would even be estranged from members of my own family whom I love dearly.
Just saying. What a narrow view of life. Do African-Americans need a lift up thanks to institutional bias. Yes. But remember, the institutional bias hurts a lot of kids including some White kids.
You make your choices, and I'm sure there are people in California who try to distance themselves from people of other races, but most of us are content living in harmony and sharing our politics, our joys, our successes, our failures and our families without concern for race or sexual orientation. So much for bigotry.
Bigotry by any name practiced by anyone is bigotry.