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In reply to the discussion: WillyT has been banned. [View all]kath
(10,565 posts)Thanks for bringing some rationality to the thread.
It also strikes me as offensive the constant reference by the media to black Americans as a single voting bloc.
Only peripherally related, but at a homeschooling (unschooling) conference years ago, there was a woman there from the Netherlands who expressed her total shock at how "race" is often a space to be completed on many of the forms that we fill out here in the U.S. She said this information was never requested on forms there, and if the question were ever asked, it would be considered highly offensive. (I think the setting was in a discussion group about prejudice, where Dr. Seuss's Star-Bellied Sneeches was discussed. IIRC, people from the Dallas Holocaust Museum led the discussion). We are sadly so very, very far from being a color-blind society.
I agree with your second paragraph, and as a black man you are allowed to say those things here at DU (I guess?). But as an aging white woman I would likely get skewered here (by the group who holds such sway and power at DU referenced above) for expressing such thoughts.