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imagine if you had left his color out, then someone in the thread asked if he was white or black? Most people here would have reacted with "why does it matter?
Which would have been the same reaction as if he'd not mentioned the sweatshirt and someone asked what the guy had on.

I get that people make assumptions they shouldn't make because of someone's skin color, and it's a horrible thing. But making it a taboo subject isn't helping this anything. If I describe everything in my environment by its color and then leave out people, the gap says much more than the inclusion would have. Racial bias isn't going away any time soon, unfortunatly, and it is going to take more than deleting vocabluary from our words to fix the problem.


Edited by JeffS (28/11/2006 17:11)
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