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<blockquote data-quote="Dixies_fire" data-source="post: 603162" data-attributes="member: 16184"><p>I wouldn't want to go back to The old days in the respect of discrimination. I never met a person in my life that I wouldn't talk to because of the color of their skin. Not ever, not once, if I had I would of been friendless in the community I grew up in.</p><p>Notice I said grew up in, not imagined or inferred but actual experience with.</p><p></p><p>My experience with being racially profiled doesn't make me a racist. Far from it. </p><p></p><p>My experience seeing the hardship of other ethnicities makes me mad. People are limited by where they grew up, the English they speak, the education they have none of those things are one size fits all for races or socioeconomic backgrounds or people with mental illness.</p><p></p><p>And maybe there isn't segregation or Jim Crow laws but there's plenty of racism in every shade and self imposed segregation.</p><p></p><p>It makes me more interested in equality, and I'm sorry if you don't agree. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm a proponent of marriage equality. I am a proponent of equal federal rights for same sex marriage because honestly until gay marriage is recognized federally it won't do any good for the people I know who would greatly benefit there by. Soldiers. Gay soldiers spouses no matter what state they are married in don't get the benefits I enjoy, an they made the same sacrifice I did and my husband did an don't get half of the benefits. Not even half. </p><p></p><p>I just wish we could of had all that without losing the ability to relate to one another.</p><p>When my grand mother died when I was six our whole church family came to our home and made sure we were taken care of, from the day she died until she was in the ground. We had more food than at Christmas. They didn't call they didn't text or email they showed up and it wasn't just our house it was my grandfather's house too. My grandmother was a nice woman but she wasn't extremely outgoing or a pillar, she was just a good woman and we were just a normal family and people shared our grief and offered support.</p><p></p><p>Not everyone has a college education, this doesn't make them stupid or less able.</p><p></p><p>It just makes them POOR and likely to stay that way for the rest of their life.</p><p></p><p>Worse in some ways, better in others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dixies_fire, post: 603162, member: 16184"] I wouldn't want to go back to The old days in the respect of discrimination. I never met a person in my life that I wouldn't talk to because of the color of their skin. Not ever, not once, if I had I would of been friendless in the community I grew up in. Notice I said grew up in, not imagined or inferred but actual experience with. My experience with being racially profiled doesn't make me a racist. Far from it. My experience seeing the hardship of other ethnicities makes me mad. People are limited by where they grew up, the English they speak, the education they have none of those things are one size fits all for races or socioeconomic backgrounds or people with mental illness. And maybe there isn't segregation or Jim Crow laws but there's plenty of racism in every shade and self imposed segregation. It makes me more interested in equality, and I'm sorry if you don't agree. I'm a proponent of marriage equality. I am a proponent of equal federal rights for same sex marriage because honestly until gay marriage is recognized federally it won't do any good for the people I know who would greatly benefit there by. Soldiers. Gay soldiers spouses no matter what state they are married in don't get the benefits I enjoy, an they made the same sacrifice I did and my husband did an don't get half of the benefits. Not even half. I just wish we could of had all that without losing the ability to relate to one another. When my grand mother died when I was six our whole church family came to our home and made sure we were taken care of, from the day she died until she was in the ground. We had more food than at Christmas. They didn't call they didn't text or email they showed up and it wasn't just our house it was my grandfather's house too. My grandmother was a nice woman but she wasn't extremely outgoing or a pillar, she was just a good woman and we were just a normal family and people shared our grief and offered support. Not everyone has a college education, this doesn't make them stupid or less able. It just makes them POOR and likely to stay that way for the rest of their life. Worse in some ways, better in others. [/QUOTE]
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