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I had great parents that taught me to be color blind. I recall one incident in 1970 when we were eating hamburgers at a drive-in. I was seven at the time and two black teenagers came up to the window to order food. There was a picnic table in the middle where some high school kids were sitting that were catcalling these two and we were close enough to hear the exchange between the lady at the window and the two black kids. She said "We don't serve ******* here" and the picnic table full of white teens just erupted with laughter but the two black teens insisted on ordering. My dad got out of the car, took out his police badge and went to the window and told the lady at the window in no uncertain terms that if she didn't fill their order that he would file a report that would get them shut down and to be quick about it. The smirk the lady had was totally wiped off of her face and she complied. The teenagers at the picnic table (some of which were bigger than my dad) started to get up and move towards him, he backed them down. My dad wasn't the most physically imposing type back then, but he could fight like no one's business and he had a very intimidating scowl. He was a lefty and he had a mean punch. I was really proud of my dad and he taught me a lot about standing up for what is right even if the odds are not in your favor.....which is why I do what I do.
If I had a dollar for all the times I heard the great white confession, Jeffrey Bezos would work for me.
What am I "confessing"? I believe that no one is any better than anyone else. You? You seem to wallow in the shallow pool of victimhood instead of rising above it......are you not capable of doing so?
There is nothing victim about me or black people. We are victors when you really think about it. I have heard your story so many times in my life that it's old. So has almost every black person living. There is always that white person who wants to confess how they were taught not to see color even as they express racist views such as you just did with your claim of victimhood. Claiming to be colorblind doesn't exclude you from understanding the different experience blacks and whites have had in America.
What was the racist views he was expressing? yes, Blacks have had different experiences than whites. And just because views are different from yours, doesn't necessarily make them racist views. When you call someone a racist, the conversation ends right there. You pull the race card out for every thing someone says, And people wonder why people can never have honest conversations about race,... holy fuck.
We can't have honest conversations about race here because whites want to express racist views and not be called on them. Show me where a white person here has told another white how they are wallowing in victimhood as they complain about blacks. Whites here play the race card all the time, so until you can talk to them about pulling the fucking race card in every post, don't say shit to me about it.