[marron]

Its funny, I guess we tend to attract people who are similar to us in outlook, but its hard for me to imagine there is anyone left who cares about "inter-racial dating". I know there are people out there who are obsessed by race, certainly the Dems are obsessed by it, but I don't hang around people like that so its easy to forget.

When I run up against someone who is honestly racist, and you do from time to time, it always hits me like cold water in the face.

Such people always assume that everyone thinks like they do. If you tell them otherwise, they are sure you are lying, they can't imagine that there are people uninterested in their number one obsession.

One such guy asked me, as if to close the subject, what I would think if my daughter dated someone outside her race... I had to stop and think, it surprised me anyone would even think to ask such a question. My daughter is divorced from a man of dubious morals, my main concern (and hers) is that she find a man of character.

One of the things I most enjoyed in the time I worked overseas is that for a while you get to forget about race completely. This may in fact be a part of why I do forget about it unless someone forces me to focus. Each country has its own kinds of bigotry, but I am outside that also, so it is like a load removed from my shoulders. Once the load is gone I don't know why anyone would want to take it on again.

"Jerk" has no color. I have always said that "jerk" should have its own passport and its own homeland, so the rest of us can go on our way in peace.

[cyborg]

One of the things I most enjoyed in the time I worked overseas is that for a while you get to forget about race completely. This may in fact be a part of why I do forget about it unless someone forces me to focus. Each country has its own kinds of bigotry, but I am outside that also, so it is like a load removed from my shoulders. Once the load is gone I don't know why anyone would want to take it on again.

***I went to England, France and Italy this year. I think the minute I stepped off the airplane I was a different person. A lot of people who go overseas have that experience.

[null and void]

"Jerk" has no color. I have always said that "jerk" should have its own passport and its own homeland, so the rest of us can go on our way in peace.

Well said.

[dighton]

"Jerk" has no color. I have always said that "jerk" should have its own passport and its own homeland, so the rest of us can go on our way in peace.

Amen.