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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 581595" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>JJJ, I'm so glad to hear how well everything turned out with Eeyore's school. And it's great that he was able to advocate for himself.</p><p></p><p>As to the N word, Janet, I agree with you. It's an ugly word with an ugly history, and I don't like the way people sling it around as though it's meaningless. I am mixed race, and look more black than any of the other parts of my heritage. I have been called the N word only once, and it stung like nothing else. I can't fathom how black people call each other by that name without taking a little chunk out of their souls with each use.</p><p></p><p>MWM, I can understand Jumper's perspective with regard to black boys. Ultimately it's more of a "culture" difference than a "colour" difference. I was born in Canada and raised around other Canadian-born people of all sorts of ethnicities. As such, I'm very comfortable with other Canadian people. Due to the demographics of where I live, most of them happen to be white. When I'm around people from Africa or the Carribbean, I feel out of place, in a large part because people feel that I should somehow magically fit in because my skin colour is similar to theirs. Add my iffy social skills to the cultural differences (different humour, idioms, eye contact conventions, etc.) and I'm often completely at a loss. I suspect Jumper feels out of place among black people for the same reasons I do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 581595, member: 3907"] JJJ, I'm so glad to hear how well everything turned out with Eeyore's school. And it's great that he was able to advocate for himself. As to the N word, Janet, I agree with you. It's an ugly word with an ugly history, and I don't like the way people sling it around as though it's meaningless. I am mixed race, and look more black than any of the other parts of my heritage. I have been called the N word only once, and it stung like nothing else. I can't fathom how black people call each other by that name without taking a little chunk out of their souls with each use. MWM, I can understand Jumper's perspective with regard to black boys. Ultimately it's more of a "culture" difference than a "colour" difference. I was born in Canada and raised around other Canadian-born people of all sorts of ethnicities. As such, I'm very comfortable with other Canadian people. Due to the demographics of where I live, most of them happen to be white. When I'm around people from Africa or the Carribbean, I feel out of place, in a large part because people feel that I should somehow magically fit in because my skin colour is similar to theirs. Add my iffy social skills to the cultural differences (different humour, idioms, eye contact conventions, etc.) and I'm often completely at a loss. I suspect Jumper feels out of place among black people for the same reasons I do. [/QUOTE]
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