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Originally posted by .:Allen:.
Anybody who is poor in this country feels the effects. I feel the effects of being white because whenever I try to talk about these things with black people they think that I'm being racist. It's called brutal honesty and black people are trying to live off the fact they were once slaves. The US is equal now, stop trying to drag it back down to before MLK Jr.
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I wouldn't quite have worded it like this but the part I bolded is kind of true. It's an awkward topic to talk about because you do get attacked for attempting to have an opinion on it so you don't want to express your view on it, so you either get trampled down or branded a racist. This whole thread is just sort of scattered with egg shells that we have to try not to step on.
My friend Jaina's parents are Indian, they're racist towards white people they don't know and her father had white and black slaves when he lived somewhere in South Africa.