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10/22/2007: "Understanding white people"

It's hard to grasp the intricacies of white culture when your only contact with white people is what you see on TV and when they wait on you at a department store or restaurant.

Because I was sent to mostly white private schools starting in the fifth grade, I learned early how to cope. How to deal with being a minority of one or two. How to parry prejudices of others without drowning in frustration.

It took me months to realize white folks would agree to do things they absolutely detested just to be polite.

[ He's got us nailed. It's part of the impulse to higher civilization, but it has misfired somewhat. ]

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/21/Opinion/Intro_to_white_people.shtml