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Jaz, great post! It sucks, just sucks to be in that position!

  angel

posted by anglofinspirtion on March 28, 2006 at 7:17 PM | link to this | reply

Good post.

posted by blogflogger on March 28, 2006 at 6:16 PM | link to this | reply

Jazwolf

I sure understand here... when I was in graduate school, I was a dormitory director for a small dorm of mostly black women.  For no reason other than my color, I was instantly hated.  I could say a lot more, but won't.  Nothing I did to try to help worked...

posted by Nanaroo on March 28, 2006 at 5:12 PM | link to this | reply

Jaz a great post. We all are something, have something someone does not

like I say a lot of it is junk. You can say hello wrong and to whomever any color or religion and be called a racist. We need to get over it on all sides.

posted by Justi on March 28, 2006 at 5:10 PM | link to this | reply

Jazwolf,

This story is a another of many in a sad string of misunderstandings and misplaced anger.  I think it is such a tender issue because it continues to be so close to home for so many of us.  It touches everyone differently, but it's still a sensitive area.  I know it is for me.  I'm fortunate to have been exposed to so much diversity and so much culture early in my life.  (Thank Sesame Street, too.).  I went to college and served in the army, and I have the advantage of extensive exposure and education that many people either just do not have the opportunity to get, or seek, or sometimes even want.  Thanks.  :)

posted by BlackPearl1 on March 28, 2006 at 5:09 PM | link to this | reply

Kudos to you for rising above your roots.

And rent the Julia Roberts pre-Pretty Woman film Mystic Pizza for a bit of Portuguese prejudice in New England.  I once had the racism accusation hurled at me for using the word shout-out.  Hey, it was what the media used in magazines and newspapers, but apparently I was a racist for using it.

posted by brettnik on March 28, 2006 at 5:06 PM | link to this | reply