On the one hand, any amount of racism is too much.
On the other hand, I think we're doing pretty good considering my MOM can remember schools not being segregated, and I've been in schools where the black and white kids don't mix, and I've been in a school where I was one of two white kids in my class (for the record, I never spoke to the other -- he was weirder than I was), and I graduated from a class that had only one black girl, who I spent HOURS of every day with since she livedso close to me.
An interesting tidbit is the only black girl in the grade below me was Maya Keyes, who either quit or got kicked out of the school and has recently come out as a lesbian in a very public news thing.
I'd tell you about the school I graduated from and the shit they did to me because they THOUGHT I was gay but that's a loooooong story and I may have told you before.
As far as I know, my parents would have no problem with me dating or even marrying a colored man. They were perfectly fine when in middle school I had kind of a Thing with this guy from Angola. Whether that was natural lack of racism or because his dad was the president of the country, though, I'll never be sure. At any rate my best friend in kindergarden was an asian girl, and my mum and hers got along swimmingly. So I doubt it's a problem with them.
Also... yeah, black guys are totally hot. XD So are Indians, as in from India.
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Date: 2006-02-05 10:06 am (UTC)On the other hand, I think we're doing pretty good considering my MOM can remember schools not being segregated, and I've been in schools where the black and white kids don't mix, and I've been in a school where I was one of two white kids in my class (for the record, I never spoke to the other -- he was weirder than I was), and I graduated from a class that had only one black girl, who I spent HOURS of every day with since she livedso close to me.
An interesting tidbit is the only black girl in the grade below me was Maya Keyes, who either quit or got kicked out of the school and has recently come out as a lesbian in a very public news thing.
I'd tell you about the school I graduated from and the shit they did to me because they THOUGHT I was gay but that's a loooooong story and I may have told you before.
As far as I know, my parents would have no problem with me dating or even marrying a colored man. They were perfectly fine when in middle school I had kind of a Thing with this guy from Angola. Whether that was natural lack of racism or because his dad was the president of the country, though, I'll never be sure. At any rate my best friend in kindergarden was an asian girl, and my mum and hers got along swimmingly. So I doubt it's a problem with them.
Also... yeah, black guys are totally hot. XD So are Indians, as in from India.