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To: sonofagun
As a white adult, whenever I have faced life's injustices, I haven't had the luxury of slamming the race card on the table.

Neither have I, but I do plan on starting to teach my blue-eyed blonde 11 year old daughter to start pulling that card, because she is being targeted for being a blue-eyed, blonde, very smart, white girl.

I truly hope that everyone here understands the sarcasm in the above sentence.

49 posted on 08/24/2009 10:34:43 AM PDT by Gabz
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To: Gabz
Neither have I, but I do plan on starting to teach my blue-eyed blonde 11 year old daughter to start pulling that card, because she is being targeted for being a blue-eyed, blonde, very smart, white girl.

Some 15 years ago, I was attracted to the Friday night lights at a nearby school-district sports complex (field house, baseball field, three football fields, two of them big stadia plus one practice/pony-league "stadiumette"). I took pot luck on the games -- there were two going on simultaneously, one in the 10,000-seat concrete stadium on the right, and one in the 7000-seat stadium on the left. I went with the smaller crowd and found myself watching two all-black high schools (one of which had been white, 50 years ago). One older black guy squinted at me when I came in and asked me, "You lost?" I found a place to sit up on the top row and watched the game, but after a while I noticed the Kashmere High School band, sitting up in the east end-zone seats -- they were almost all black with a handful of Mexicans/Chicanos, except for this one kid. She was a Nordic blonde, a little heavy, built like a German farmer's wife, with extremely long, blonde hair down to her waist. She was playing one of the big horns -- tuba or French horn -- up near the back of the band, and she was pretty much by herself. Other band members seldom turned around and addressed her, she wasn't part of any group. She just sat up there with this little space of empty seats around her and played, and played, and played. I wondered what life was like for her.

76 posted on 08/24/2009 12:08:03 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Gabz
I truly hope that everyone here understands the sarcasm in the above sentence.

I am no longer "white".

I now declare myself to be "Euro-American"

No sarcasm intended.

101 posted on 08/24/2009 3:38:49 PM PDT by sonofagun
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