(02-23-2019, 01:39 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(02-22-2019, 09:08 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Either way they were almost all tolerant of me but made it very clear I didn't belong, didn't understand, and none of them trusted a white person- period. It's a generational thing as much as it's societal. Every generation has grown up hating and not trusting the white folks, and for good reason to a degree. There is still true racism toward black folks very much alive in this country perpetrated by whites whose beliefs are also generational which means nothing will change. 

No, it isn't.

You explained a situation where you were treated poorly because of your race, and you're excusing it because someone somewhere else is racist? You don't think the hypothetical white racists in your scenario could use the same excuse?

I'm not excusing anything. I never said I was treated poorly and I don't feel that I was, I was sharing my experience with these folks and how it relates to the reply to my post. 

At some point people choose to keep being racist. Any one of us can choose to keep feeding that monster or we can make the effort to get past whatever it is; be it racism, sexism, bigotry, we hate the color blue, etc. That's what I meant with "good reason to a degree".

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