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SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
1. No surprise there.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 11:09 PM
Feb 2015

I am not proud to say I've made similar mistakes. Once, when another mom at my kid's school made a comment about my child, I though she was a nurse. No, she's a doctor.

When we were viewing the house we wound up buying, I thought that the African American woman inside was a housekeeper. No, she was the homeowner.

As I said, I'm not proud of these things, but given our culture, it is far too easy to do that.

I also want to acknowledge my African American friends who have been VERY tolerant of my occasional and (I promise) inadvertent lapses into unintended racism. I think I redeem myself because as soon as I realize what I've done, I'm extremely apologetic. I know there is never any excuse for racism, and I must get that across, because they continue letting me associate with them.

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