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I'm just curious. You seem to really carry this "somebody is a racist" thing to heart.

How old are you?

Where do you live?

What race are you?

I'm 46, raised in Mississippi, lived all over the world and now live in Nashville. I have two daughters by an ex-wife who is Lebanese Maronite from Brasil and two sons with a local Nashville gal. I am the guy on my homepage btw...I pinged a few that know that to be true off the keyboard.

I'm a white male.

The reason I ask is that on this forum, there are folks who really beat this drum but few of them are Southern and have much experience with Jim Crow. I grew up in the middle of it and watched it's death as a teenager and was raised as a liberal on civil rights issues yet most of the racists I see today are not white yet the very few white ones seem to be all anyone talks about and some folks toss the race card (mostly about peckertwoods) around lightly. I often suspect the school systems for Gen X and Y have sensitized them (public and private) as well as churches and advanced academia and the modern "culture". This need to point out racism at every turn is simply foreign to me. I grew up with the real thing and one of my grandmas used the N-word but I loved her to her grave and think nothing less of her. She was a product of her time and I think there exist very few folks who have never used that word anyhow.

I'm not flaming, just trying to understand what prompts your earnestness.

Regards.