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Originally Posted by Danzig
i remember people complaining about jeremiah wrights comments that there is rampant racism still in this country. i disagreed with him, as i didn't think that was the case (people tend to think everyone feels as they do, and i'm not racist)...then i go to work, and elsewhere, and listen to others who are upset. then you listen more, and they prove his point, as they are the racists he was talking about. it was shocking to me...this is the bible belt, these people go to church three times a week and listen to 'love your brother', 'god created us all in his image', and then my ex(thankfully) coworker tells me she thinks 'blacks should go to their own church, whites to theirs'. it's CRAZY!!! and scary. she also believed that bullsh!t email that made it's way all over the country that said obama was a muslim. so i had to explain to her that not everything people forwards you is TRUE. hello!!
we've come a long way, but still a ways to go. but my kids and their friends make me hopeful, as most are so much more accepting then their parents.
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I had a project about an hour from where I live in a rural area. We hired some "locals" to work for us. One 18yr old kid broke his wrist, so he was on light duty and was going to help me out in the office. He came into work his first day back and as he sat down to talk to me, I noticed Nigger in 2" letters written on his cast. I threw a Sharpie at him and told him to cover it up or he didn't work for me any more. He laughed and said it was just a joke. I told him I wasn't joking. I felt sick, I was stunned. This kid actually thought he could work side by side with people (black, white, hispanic) with that crap on his cast.
Like you, I naively felt like others felt the same way as me. Not so.