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Title: Race humor: forbidden? How you experienced racial differences growing up
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Published: Jun 30, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-06-30 22:41:48 by Artisan
Keywords: race
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in another thread, the subject of race came up & how some people are so overly sensitive to the matter. i grew up in a town where, in the late 70's, during the miniseries ROOTS, blacks actually rioted at the public high school. my older blonde haired sister, who had a white car no less, was jumped. about 15 of them jumped on her gremlin screaching something or other about 'whitey'. Thank God my brother was a jock & the only white kid on the basketball team. he was also a brawler, so when one of the niggers said 'hey, that's white boy's sister', they relented & exited the top of her white vehicle. Another time, i had a lemonade/candy stand outside the house. two blacks came up, gulped down their lemonade, then informed me they weren't paying. well i was a little kid, what could i do? Right as the slobs strutted down the street, my sister drove down the street towards home. ha ha, i knew this would be good. i jumped up waving my arms at her. she knew something was up, & sped up. i shouted what theyd done, &
Poster Comment: con'td... she did a 'dukes of hazard' 180. they ran like jackrabbits. funny as hell. she actually caught them, shouted at them & they apologized. being half hillbilly & half Italian, racial jokes & cultural humor was never 'verboten' . today it seems everyone is overly sensitive & paranoid of differences. My wife is Mexican but i don't have problem with people's varying views on race. God created all men,but to strike fear over discussion of the race issue is silly & oppressive. how were you brought up about race?
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#1. To: Artisan (#0)
i have no memories of feelings one way or the other about race as a young child. i grew up in an all white suburban neighborhood. there were no black students in any of the schools i attended until high school. i think there were fewer than five and all were considered oreos. do you remember that term? i do remember my Sicilian father expressing some distrust and dislike for the blacks he encountered as a D C transit bus driver and later owner/operator of a Shell gas station near the D C line. it wasn't until my young adulthood that i came into contact with low class white hating blacks with the 'tude.
hehehehe..no, mine wasn't mafia.
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#3. To: christine (#1)
i do remember my Sicilian father expressing some distrust and dislike for the blacks he encountered
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