BlkTallFullfig
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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster I think it was an honest statement. She's not saying that black men are evil or even that they're inherently scary. She's just saying that SHE is afraid of them for some reason that she doesn't even understand. If more people were that open and honest about their instinctive responses, we'd have a lot LESS bigotry. She is certainly leaving the reason they are scary out of the equation, except for their skin color. I'm not offended by her honesty either, I would always rather know. It's just that someone who has me on her favs list should work the being scared of black men thing out first before trying to be my friend, lol. I'm not wanting to beat on riot either, just because she blurted that out. Unless riot becomes a congresswoman, her feelings about blacks affect me about as much as santa claus does. Riot is a relatively intelligent person, who has posted angrily about people being racist to her offspring (hispanic or some other mix I don't remember). How can you say you despise bigotry than also say I'm afraid of brown skin. I said I wished I hadn't read that because it was slightly disillusioning coming from someone who's spoken on the matter before, and ought to know better. M P.S. I don't see where being honest about being a bigot makes one less of a bigot though. Being honest with oneself is only good if one is willing to search one's soul, rid self of counterproductive thoughts and feelings and make an honest attempt at doing onto others as one would have done to himself. Otherwise it is worthless, and the only good it does me is to know when to cross the street so that we don't cross paths whenever possible. M
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