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SixDegrees12/06/2009 12:33:57 pm PST

re: #96 Obdicut

I don’t think blacks’ problems could be summed up as just not being part of the cultural majority, no. That’s not a very apt comparison.

And I don’t think they’ve just been ‘uncomfortable’, either, for much of American history.

Oh. I was simply responding to your statement

If someone is not comfortable in a situation where they are not part of the cultural majority, I have no idea how to interpret that other than bigotry. Perhaps you could offer a theory?

I’d suggest that blacks, for much of the last couple centuries in America, anyway, have been 1) not part of the cultural minority and 2) very uncomfortable, at a number of levels.