• vleep@lemmy.zip
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    2 hours ago

    When I was 9 My parents took me to toys-r-us to get a GI Joe. I picked the black one which really irritated them “but ur white”?! Yea, no shit.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 hours ago

    I think I was like six years old when I talked to someone, and he said no hablo English, and I freaked out, because it was the first time that I encountered someone who spoke a different language.

    Years later, Sesame Street would start showing segments in English and Spanish.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    17 hours ago

    I wonder if having absolutely no white friends until I was 6 is why I don’t give a shit about race. Everyone I knew back when I was living in San Jose was Mexican, Black or Asian. I have no memories of playing with any other white kids until my family moved to the central valley when I was 5 going on 6.

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      16 hours ago

      Yuuup, people don’t believe me when I say that my pasty white butt was in the minority growing up. I’m pretty sure my middle school in SJ was about 50% Vietnamese only, not even accounting for other POCs.

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        10 hours ago

        I can’t remember who said it. Chris Rock, maybe?

        If there are 10 Black kids in a school with 500 White kids, the White parents will tell you their school is integrated

        If there are only 10 White kids in a school with 500 Black kids none of the parents think the place is integrated.

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      10 hours ago

      MJ had medical conditions and tried to make the best of them. It’s also cool to let the man rest now.

      Edit: what offensive thing did I say?