re: Maybe I look like a white supremacist?

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Probably not a good idea to read motives into anyone’s coldness with you. It could be a million things and unless the person says, “I don’t like white people” it makes little sense to assume that’s the reason. Black people walk into this very situation their entire lives. That is, being the only representative of their race and running into callous individuals. I bet everyone here complains when some blacks attribute racism to all of these experiences. It’s just as tedious when a white person jumps to the same conclusion. Furthermore, there are posters describing how black women, black men and black children treat them as if they’re zoo animals. Black men, women and children don’t treat you any specific way. The ones you’ve met (or more likely SOME of those you’ve met) have treated you a certain way. Has anyone here ever said, “white women treat me...”? Why would anyone start a sentence that way? Even if every single black person did treat you a specific way that doesn’t mean it’s because they’re black. Causation, correlation and all of that. I’m preaching to myself as much as anyone. Racism is a pernicious problem and I think we all probably practice it more than we think through stereotypes and assumptions.

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