Originally Posted by
PaulN
You must have had very bad experiences to be quite so cynical. That really isn't a natural thing for most people. Or maybe your expectations create the experience that you receive?
You know that your comments on this thread have a strong tinge of hyperbole to them which is very much at odds with the OP's post ? e.g. "tinge of racism", "kicked around", "won't fight", "utterly aggressive incompetence"
No. I've had really good experiences. Never noticed racism growing up. Then I realized it was because I grew up in a mostly white world where there was no opportunity for it to even be a topic.
Marrying a person of color exposed a lot of things I didn't believe existed anymore. Not that I believe the world is a highly racist place in general, because I don't think society condones it, but I do see tinges of it in the attitudes that people sometimes unconsciously express.