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African American

greymattermom

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1. I'm a minority in my county

Reply to Kind of Blue (Original post)

Wed Nov 7, 2018, 10:34 AM

Nov 2018

and I'm white. Things are fine, the job gets done. Let's go back to calling all groups who are less than half the population "minority". Language has meaning.

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Segregation is dead, how long, how violent, how expensive is the funeral [View all] Kind of Blue Nov 2018 OP

I'm a minority in my county greymattermom Nov 2018 #1

I'm sorry but I don't understand your response. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #2

You're getting ahead of demographic trends. Whites won't be under 50%... brush Nov 2018 #3

So you mean that we have to wait another 15-20 years Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #5

Of course we don't have to wait to fight against it, just stating demographic projections. brush Nov 2018 #7

Okay, thanks for your feedback. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #8

Maybe because you are not experiencing racism yourself everything looks fine to you . No problems lunasun Nov 2018 #4

Thanks, lunasun. I thought that's what she meant Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #6