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thewoodenaisle  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Conversation With White People on Race

I'm curious about the background of these participants. In my experience, white people who live and actively participate in a culturally diverse environment are far less skittish when talking about race. I noticed how most of the participants talk about the plight of minorities in the abstract and never something along the lines of, "I thought we had moved past racism until I saw how my black friend got treated like shit because they were black." Except for the anecdote about asking why black people are called black people when they have brown skin, it's always in vague terms.