In a perfect world "the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes". Of course we don't live in that perfect world which is why as the song continued until then "Me Say War". Was Bob Marley racist? Did he require compassionate help?
I have lived in varying degrees of diversity my entire life and consider myself fortunate in that regard. Nevertheless at one point I lived in a building that was predominantly black when I moved there but as time went on became almost exclusively black. And I started to feel more and more uncomfortable. Not for any particular reason but I just felt I didn't belong and eventually I moved. Am I racist? Do I require cognitive behavioral therapy? Some would say so but in my case I had other options that perhaps the black lesbian woman in your thought experiment would not have available to her.
You should've stayed through AT LEAST two muggings, three severe beatings, enough break-ins that you simply left your door unlocked, and a month of Sundays where sirens blared regularly at night along with frequent gunshots and the continuous cacophony of, um, nearby domestic crises. But no, you up and bolted for no reason at all other than you were a snowball in a coal bin—nothing more racist that that. Shame on you!
You are not a racist and you did the correct thing by moving out so that that particular building based Affinity group could be free of you since they very likely as uncomfortable with you as you with them. Indeed you probably unknowingly made them feel unsafe by being in their affinity space. Well done on moving out, albeit a tad late for many.
Hadn’t read your other comments yet. I think we share a certain biting “affinity” that has often gotten me in underserved hot water. Sarcasm and irony are not easily digested by the literally minded, idealistically myopic.
You are not a racist per se, you are only a victim of a race conscious culture. Also, it’s perfectly normal to gravitate towards people of similar cultural backgrounds and interests. You sound perfectly normal to me.
In a perfect world "the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes". Of course we don't live in that perfect world which is why as the song continued until then "Me Say War". Was Bob Marley racist? Did he require compassionate help?
I have lived in varying degrees of diversity my entire life and consider myself fortunate in that regard. Nevertheless at one point I lived in a building that was predominantly black when I moved there but as time went on became almost exclusively black. And I started to feel more and more uncomfortable. Not for any particular reason but I just felt I didn't belong and eventually I moved. Am I racist? Do I require cognitive behavioral therapy? Some would say so but in my case I had other options that perhaps the black lesbian woman in your thought experiment would not have available to her.
Yup, absolutely racist, no question about it.
You should've stayed through AT LEAST two muggings, three severe beatings, enough break-ins that you simply left your door unlocked, and a month of Sundays where sirens blared regularly at night along with frequent gunshots and the continuous cacophony of, um, nearby domestic crises. But no, you up and bolted for no reason at all other than you were a snowball in a coal bin—nothing more racist that that. Shame on you!
You are not a racist and you did the correct thing by moving out so that that particular building based Affinity group could be free of you since they very likely as uncomfortable with you as you with them. Indeed you probably unknowingly made them feel unsafe by being in their affinity space. Well done on moving out, albeit a tad late for many.
Sarcasm, I hope.
Never know, do we? :D
Hadn’t read your other comments yet. I think we share a certain biting “affinity” that has often gotten me in underserved hot water. Sarcasm and irony are not easily digested by the literally minded, idealistically myopic.
You are not a racist per se, you are only a victim of a race conscious culture. Also, it’s perfectly normal to gravitate towards people of similar cultural backgrounds and interests. You sound perfectly normal to me.