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Originally Posted by Liss
Neil -- I didn't know you were fluent in girl talk!
I just got out of an ethnic studies class in which I am the only blonde (which means light skin too!) out of 175 people (my school is just 8% white). I always leave that class with all kinds of dirty looks because everyone's emotionally charged, especially lately since we're discussing how racism is a white privelage and an impossibility for people of color. No fun dates for me.
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Really? I'm in my second semester of an African American Literature survey (two part course), have red hair, pale pale skin, and have never had the racial tension projected onto me.
I will admit I felt uncomfortable when we read parts of Thomse Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, when he wrote about the inferiority of black people. But only because he's a red head.