"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 7:28:58 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>> 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.

I have not seen that here.