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Ahhhh enough!

First, I'd like to say "thanks" to the Splendora community for posting the Columbia University noose incident on your what to lists.  Having been out of the US for almost  six years -- I'm left with this weird feeling of "huh?" ~ or "what?"  when I read about these types of racist acts.  It's all so antiquated and weird and meant to say and accomplish what? 

Is this person trying to say he wishes we could go back to the days when blacks were hung ~ as if that could ever happen.  I have to say that as much as I  have love for the US -- it's so refreshing and mentally, psychologically and emotionally liberating to be outside of a context where I've always had to think about race -- or why this racist act happened --or was this or that person discriminating against me.  

Rasicm wears you down.  And it's rooted in nothingness -- meaning it's meaningless.  Our capacity to live out our lives as humans and experience all the joys of life are simply " a human experience" -- not that our lives are not colored by the intricacies of our unique ethnic, religious and social backgrounds -- but why do people fear that?  Why does my existence in my natural state make someone want to hate me?  I don't and will never get it.  Ahhh enough! 

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Oct. 11, 2007
01:59 PM

agreed.

I'm also very over this shock-addiction in our society; people being copy-cats just to shock or offend. It's totally unnecessary and juvenile. The issues so ingrained in our social fabric can certainly be wearing. Not to say that the US is the ONLY country with such problems, but always seeing myself in terms of my race can be overwhelming, and I sometimes wish I had a different foundation to my self-image.

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