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Oh - I can’t keep up with all the reasonings - but honestly, it is hard to be in coversation with someone without noticing who they are, not good, not bad, just is. Same as male or female, tall or thin, foreign or local.
whoa girl. While the South was well documented for its racist
But we are Canadian and it is different up here. We don’t have the history that the US has in the South. We can’t be expected to get it
or understand it in the same way…until we happen to be on the other side of the tracks, even here.[/QUOTE]
oops.
While the South was well documented for its racist behavior, the north was doing the same, by exclusion from communities.
When I was in high school, many many years ago, a big Boston company opened a plant here, and moved its executives down. When several couples were out visiting my parents, the people were shocked that our neighbors were, gasp, Jewish! They said that in their neighborhoods, Jews were not allowed. And black folks lived right down the road from us, and I rode my horses thru those woods after dark every day because they were nice people. (I was banned from riding where some rough white folks lived, my mother feared for my life down there)
I learned from the Boston folks that up north back then, no blacks and no Jews were allowed in their neighborhoods.
And when I went out to Berkeley in college, I found that hispanics were treated there like blacks were treated down south.
And in St Louis later, when I was in the 5% of white folks who lived downtown, I learned what it was like to be one of few white folks at parties, concerts, and in the workplace.
Race is a factor because people all want to feel superior to someone. Too bad.
So sad they have to withdraw from competition!
