Commander Strax
Well-Known Member
I will start by saying first and foremost I was not raised to dislike anyone. I was raised by my mother after my father died and she was a saint. She worked at an Episcopal church and never had a bad thing to say about anyone.
I grew up in the beach cities of Los Angeles and although I was exposed to people of various ethnic backgrounds I grew up in a predominately white neighborhood. I can not think of any instance where race was really an issue, except one time a car load of Hispanic folks yelled something at me and I flipped them the bird. They turned around and were hassling me and one of them punched me in the face. A car stopped and a couple guys came to my rescue and the Mexican folks ran off.
So I know that it was not an environmental cause so I must have been born this way.
I can remember as a little kid watching Batman and the episode where cat woman is played by Ertha Kitt and he kisses her. I may have been 6 or 7 at the time and can remember thinking to myself why is he kissing her Shes Black!
I also thought that Archie Bunker was the smart one and that Meat Head was the dumb one.
I understand that it is not a good way to look at the world and when I have negative thoughts I try to tell myself that it is not right to think that way.
Like when I went to the urgent care and the Doctor walks in and he is from India, in the back of my head I am like "Oh great here we go"
Well there you are, when a person starts a sentence saying "I am not a racist but..." they are
I grew up in the beach cities of Los Angeles and although I was exposed to people of various ethnic backgrounds I grew up in a predominately white neighborhood. I can not think of any instance where race was really an issue, except one time a car load of Hispanic folks yelled something at me and I flipped them the bird. They turned around and were hassling me and one of them punched me in the face. A car stopped and a couple guys came to my rescue and the Mexican folks ran off.
So I know that it was not an environmental cause so I must have been born this way.
I can remember as a little kid watching Batman and the episode where cat woman is played by Ertha Kitt and he kisses her. I may have been 6 or 7 at the time and can remember thinking to myself why is he kissing her Shes Black!
I also thought that Archie Bunker was the smart one and that Meat Head was the dumb one.
I understand that it is not a good way to look at the world and when I have negative thoughts I try to tell myself that it is not right to think that way.
Like when I went to the urgent care and the Doctor walks in and he is from India, in the back of my head I am like "Oh great here we go"
Well there you are, when a person starts a sentence saying "I am not a racist but..." they are
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