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Excellent article.
Sorry, cant do a cut and paste with my mobile.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/27/2017-was-the-year-i-learned-about-my-white-privilege/
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Learning about white privilege. (Original Post)
dhol82
Dec 2017
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lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)1. Yes it is. Thank you. nt
murielm99
(30,755 posts)2. Thank you for posting this. n/t
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)3. I'm Mexican American, but ethnically 80% European
I can speak American standard English and I can slather it with a thick East Texas Accent.
So I can travel through Texas and pass off as a good-old-boy.
So I've had a chance to experience the deep racist animosity against Mexican Americans coming from the mouths of shit kicking goat-ropers when they think they're surrounded by their own kind.
It is ugly.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)4. I hate it when people assume I am racist like them
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I don't let them get away with it, not at all.....I let them have it
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)5. You haven't been in a general store surrounded by rednecks nt
you DO know I live in Texas, right?