On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 11:47:09 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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.
>
> I have not seen that here.

Washington state seemed pretty cool. OTOH, I didn't see very many black folks or Mexican-Americans there back in '87.