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“It is different now, but suddenly bursting out with Japanese used to seriously freak people out. Like they were having a religious vision, or I was a talking dog.”
lol,
you guys are very funny today!
…the OT must be good with a blunt.
I grew up in an all white neighborhood, but there was an all black neighborhood less than a mile away. We were not allowed to go there, and my family usually avoided it even when driving.
If we saw black kids riding their bikes in our neighborhood, we were told to be cautious because they were looking to steal something.
The school I went to had a few black kids in each grade, but they were the “good blacks,” so it was OK to be friends with them.
Man, that was fucked up.
donat, you speak japanese? awesome! how long did it take you to learn it?
i never saw white people in person before moving to pa. thought they were discolorations on our cheap tv. grew up on south side of chicago in the 70s-80s. pa was a culture shock.
Nah, I never did that JB. I had the experience of being
completely exotic in Japan. Of course, people there think speaking Japanese is a racially linked trait, so they would speak freely about me on the subway, commenting on my looks never thinking I had any idea of what they are saying.
It is different now, but suddenly bursting out with Japanese used to seriously freak people out. Like they were having a religious vision, or I was a talking dog.
How do I say this exactly…Blowfish, I think it’s cool that your sending your kids to the zoned schools.
“I’ve been the first white woman a lot of Africans have ever met. They touched my skin to make sure I was real; DonaT -I hope you didn’t do that.”
That’s interesting jessi,
when mrslegion (who is very fair) and I were in Egypt,
people were very intrigued by her skin color, some even took photos with her, their entire family and her!
“They’ll probably end up hating being white. Like liberals.”
interesting statement. i knew a white woman who has kids with a black man. she hates white men and white people. she says the most awful stuff about white people to and in front of her kids. i always found it disturbing, as she is essentially teaching them to hate who they are in part.
Having gone to a women’s college, every dorm was the gay dorm 🙂