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[serene]

Inspired by a post from black_pearl_10, I just want to say this to everyone reading my LJ:

If you have a "race card" to play, please play it*, so that you can help me learn the rules of the game. It's not your job to educate me, but I want to make it really clear that I appreciate learning from you, and I don't want to ever be a part of silencing you.

kthxbye

[*if you want to. Or not. Because, like, it's your call and all.]

Comments

[snippy]

As a Jew I talk about antisemitism sometimes, but not nearly as much as I suffer from it or read about it happening to others.

When my sister and I were the only white kids in an otherwise-completely-Hispanic elementary school, we were called names, chased home and beaten every day.

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I have no race card. I am a massively white American mongrel.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

*browwrinkle* I don't know how to respond to this. I've been participating in discussions about race online for a long time, but I have no idea what you meant to say, in your post.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether I have a race card to play or not. I may or may not have Maori ancestry. I've been told to check it out to see if I have access to "all those lucrative Treaty of Waitangi settlements and scholarships and stuff", but IMO that's a damn poor reason for doing so.

If I do (and it's a matter of getting round to it rather than a lack of will to do so), it'll be for Agent Weasel's sake, not mine, and certainly not for pecuniary gain.

[firecat]

*hands you a white card*