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Originally Posted by Ava
And race was an issue for me too. Kids in my day couldn't understand that a white and a black person could have a child and that that child is biracial. Kids in my day thought, "well, if you have brown skin, that makes you black. You can't have a white parent because if you did, you'd be white. But you're not, so you're ALL black". Meanwhile, the black kids always had to point out that I was "different". I got called "white girl" A lot. The sad thing is, I'm *still* called "white girl" by black people to his day.
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See, that's something that really disappoints me about the changes in society since I was young.
When I was a kid, this... just wasn't a thing. I went to school with white kids, black kids, Hispanic kids, Asian kids, Middle Eastern kids, Native American kids... We were all just kids. Sure, race was a concept that we knew about, but it really didn't come into play in anything. Anyone could be friends with anyone. We were all learning the same things and taking the same classes. There was no
reason to think that skin color or eye shape or hair texture was something worth discriminating over. It gave us the opportunity to learn about the foods or stories or cultures of another part of the world, so that was cool, that was good, that wasn't a reason to look down on someone.
To this day I still generally can't tell you what race someone is at a glance. It's something I have to actually
try to pay attention to.
And yet I see the younger generations making such a big deal over pointing out what race people are, as if that mere fact alone is supposed to influence how I treat them. That goes entirely contrary to the ideals I was raised to believe, and it makes me sad that it's the best time in history for
everyone and yet I can't go on Twitter without seeing someone screaming about it.