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A bigot doesn't care about the culture behind the color.
It's the actions of bigots that the government needs to be concerned about.
I suspect racism was what kept that black man in that black neighborhood with his white wife. Up until the the 70s, even in states where there were no anti-miscegenation laws a white person effectively lost his "white card"--lost the privileges of being white-- if he or she married black. That was far more true, of course, of a white woman who married black than a white man, but white men got pounded pretty hard by society as well if he showed up with a black woman on his arm.
Back in the early 90s in Nebraska, I knew an elderly French woman who had married a black soldier right after WWII. She had come to live in Nebraska with him in the late 40s.
Man, oh man that pale little lady despised American white people with a purple passion.
Your grandfathers were born in the 1880s? How old are you?
I'm 60 My parents were both born in 1920 and 1922
In Kansas there were black men preaching about equal rights in the 1870's, something that got blacks killed for doing in the 1960's
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In Kansas there were black men preaching about equal rights in the 1870's, something that got blacks killed for doing in the 1960's
Racism is still alive and well. We think we live in modern times but there are still backwards beliefs. Many whites today deny that racism still exists.
I wouldn't go to the dean without discussing it with the professor herself first, though. OP is an adult, he should be able to handle conflict like an adult.
I do, only because it is likely the teacher had to go through diversity training in which all of them were told to make sure that everyone feels included and recognized and celebrated because of race. They were probably also told, 'everyone learns differently' and 'everyone gets offended at different things' so they needed to check in on all students of diversity to make sure all individual needs were being met, no one was offended, and that the students were feeling welcomed in the class because of their individual diverse circumstances.
The teacher probably felt they were doing their job well by taking this approach.
This is why diversity training is so useless. All it does is reinforce stereotypes.
Given the context, I don't understand why this is a problem. I also don't understand your reaction.
It seems like a lot of drama over nothing.
If I was in the OP's shoes, I would said "the HUMAN race, same as you and everybody else in thus room" and simply refused to elaborate if pressed further.
My mother used to say to me "You know you aren't the milkman's baby, because you have your father's feet".
(By the time I was 13, I had the same sized large feet that my father did, and my feet looked like a younger version of the exact same feet)
You’re dating yourself by saying “milkman”. More than half of voters now are probably too young to know what you’re talking about. Unfortunately, I’m not.
I was offended. She talks about race a lot. She is insecure about her own race. And she asked me if I was mixed because she said she wants to know if I'm going to relate to the material if I'm partially something. I said, ''maybe I'll partially relate.'' And she answered back with this sarcastic ''okay.''
I just stormed out and have never been so humiliated. Any advice on how to feel better?
Given the context, that is offensive, it didn't appear as an innocent genuine curiosity about your race, she was suggesting that your race will be a factor in relating to content that she would be discussing- not appropriate.
Given the context, that is offensive, it didn't appear as an innocent genuine curiosity about your race, she was suggesting that your race will be a factor in relating to content that she would be discussing- not appropriate.
What if the class was Sociology and the discussion was how culture contributed to your outlook?
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