I recently found out that a visitor to my home considers me a racist ...

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202. I don't think about people by their color either.

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It's hard to imagine why so many people do. But as a young woman out of high school, I took a job in the bay area (Cali) that had all kinds of races and genders and ages...we were a mixed bag, so many of my first friends away from home were mulato, black, portugese, filipino, hispanic, asian, dutch, gay, lesbian and even a few straight whites like me. Some were adults and some were young. I think that is the way all young people should grow up. Exposed to everything in a situation where cliques are not encouraged. Cliques were popular at school, but at work they just never happened. And maybe if all schools were so mixed, we would eventually overcome racism. We just all got along and many people made close friendships. I had such a mixed bag of friends, there was no majority...we were all about equal. That was one of the best times of my life and it changed me in a good way, because I grew up in a small rural Oregon town and there were no mixed races there or gays (unless they were closeted). Only whites. I didn't grow up with any prejudices, but I was not as comfortable with other races right away. I wasn't used t them. But after working while them for awhile, they were like anyone else.