On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 7:28:58 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 11:16:04 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> >
> > I'm not particularly PC myself and I don't sort people out by color.
>
> If you truly don't, you'd be pretty exceptional. My experience is that
> racism is so deeply ingrained on the mainland so as to be completely
> unrecognizable. I spotted that when I first stepped foot on the land. It was
> my dirty little secret that hardly anybody there knew. I'm not saying that
> all ya'all are wearing white sheets. Mostly, it's subtle - very subtle.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/o...sm-hawaii.html
>
> Two of my friends are Hawaiian and so is my nephew's wife. I have a white
> friend who was married to a Japanese guy and another who was married to a
> black guy. I have a black friend who is married to a white guy.
>
> The three Hawaiians that I know are constantly remind me and others of their
> ethnicity. That's the only reason it comes to mind. I know there are others
> in my life who are not white, such as my gardener. But as I said... I don't
> sort them out by color, so I think of them as my friends or my friend's
> spouses and not that black guy or Japanese guy, etc.

When I lived on the mainland, I pretty much kept a low profile. OTOH, I wouldn't allow people there to treat me like they do black folks, or Mexicans i.e., disrespectfully.