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Subject: Re: "The blacks"

Author:
Alan

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Date Posted: 06:56:38 09/29/02 Sun
In reply to: M23 's message, "Re: "The blacks"" on 11:16:48 09/26/02 Thu

>So hopefully with the next child, (my third) entering
>school in the future we will focus more on the
>diversity of our community and less on the "history"
>of each individual child. It was a waste of school
>time during my education and its a waste now..focusing
>on the "fact" that as a community we ALL experience
>pretty much the same things...PTA, sports, Walmart,
>educating children, shopping for food and just plain
>living and of course celebrating black history month
>as well as St Pats day and all the other myriad of
>holiday.
>
>Do I negate what happened in this country? Nope! but
>I'm not willing to say that EVERY dark skinned human
>in my community is of the same background...its just
>not accurate nor should we paint every "white" skinned
>individual as a WASP...

I will agree with your last sentence. There is much greater complexity than "black and white." But I totally reject the idea that we are all pretty much the same now, just because we superficially shop at some of the same stores and whatnot. Perhaps in another couple hundred years your statement will be more accurate (though I hope not), but not today, no way.

I mean, for example, I used to live in one of the most diverse neighbourhoods in the world (in Jersey City, NJ); yet Dominicans saw themselves as completely different than Cubans, Mexicans, etc.--even though they would all be labelled "Hispanic" by some; and though they all spoke Spanish.

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Re: "The blacks"	M23	08:31:07 10/02/02 Wed