Mon Feb 09, 2009, 01:25pm
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Near Dog River (sorta)
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Originally Posted by ref2coach
I was called everything but a white Man.
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Originally Posted by JRutledge
If no one else will say it, I will say it. You were called a white man and you were offended? Really??
I get identified all the time by my race and I do not get upset, nor do I consider the reality of that identification as racist (because it has nothing to do with racism BTW). It is not the identification that is problem; it is a slur or a stereotype that is offensive.
And I bet that most people here that are white, it they choose to work in places that did not look like them, they would pass. I do not have that choice and I live in a highly racially mixed area where most of the people of color in the state lives and if I am assigned in a place where only people of a certain race that look likes me takes place, it is rather rare. A vast majority of time of my games I am just about the only Black person in the gym (players, coaches, fans and administrators).
Peace
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