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Originally Posted by wutamess
bk: You're taking this personal. I'm just telling you the way a minority sees white America. We're immediately skeptical until we know more about you. I guess you're stereotyped or prejudged as being racist because of our history's past.
Is that a bad assumption just because YOU aren't?
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No offense, Man, but that's a pretty big leap (All Whites = Racist until proven otherwise).
I'm 3rd Generation Italian-American. My great grandfather came from Sicily to America (twice, actually) in the early 1900's. As you're probably aware, Italians were treated poorly and looked at as second class citizens for decades. But my family in particular had no associations with America's past - no slave owners, no Civil War, no nothing. As a family, we weren't raised to dislike (let alone hate) anyone of different ethnicity (though in all honesty, there had been a dislike of the Greeks among the older Italians).
Basically, my point is that while you may be justified in thinking that every white man is a racist because of America's past, you also may be unfairly categorizing a large portion of people who don't have a racist thought and have never had racists thoughts.
One a side note, when my parents were last in town, I took my Pop to see a Dodgers game. They just happened to be playing the Cubs. It was very nice to see two MLB ballclubs managed by Italian-Americans (Torre & Pinella). That's certainly something you wouldn't have seen 70 years ago. And while that may not have much significance to you, it's nice to see that things have changed.