I'm just speaking on some things that what you've said is making me think about. I'm glad we're having this discussion. I ain't trying to pass on any negativity, just build on knowledge that was passed down to me.

>My belief about everyone being an individual
>ain't come from any history lesson. I made that determination
>on my own because I find it to be truth in my eyes.

But because it is the truth in YOUR eyes doesn't make it the truth. MANY PEOPLE think differently and experience life through their experience as cultured beings ... as belonging to a community ... a collective. It is important to them and their survival, so when you say:

>If
>everyone TRULY believed that, none of this would even be in
>question.

that's not entirely true, because if everyone subscribed to your philosophy of individualism, you would be necessarily denying many people's experience and worldview. and since, like i said before, individualism is an ideology that came from Europe (whether or not you came to it "naturally" is irrelevant ... you were still influenced by the generaions of people thinking that individualism was the best way to look at things in this country), this denial of their culture can easily become a form of Eurocentric violence that is still commonly practiced by many white people.

>I don't even know much about any race's history,
>including my own.

Learning about these histories can only help us not repeat he mistakes of he past, to know where we came from, and how to better understand each other as we live together on this planet.

>I know about slavery and I damn sure don't
>agree with it. So how can you or anyone put me in the same
>distinction as the people that made this country up just
>because my skin is the same color as theirs?

I never said you were the same. I just said we are ALL living in a place that was formed by this history and the many cultural practices and social institutions that came out of it. We can't help what happened in the past, but we can seek to understand how it affects our lives today, both in how the world is run and how we ourselves act within the structures that were set up as a by-product of this history.

>It's like being
>mad at me for something that I didn't do... Doesn't make sense
>to me.

I ain't mad at you man.

>So all of this ideaology and Eurocentricsim or whatever
>they called is all irrelevant to me. They mean nothing.

Only because you don't allow them to mean anything to you. They certainly HAVE MEANING ... its up to you to make sense of it for your life, cuz it definitely is relevant.

>It's called the Global Beads class... And you get a different
>color bead for whatever race that person is... Then at the end
>they make you look at your beads and how diverse everything is
>in your life. And they ask you stuff like if you'd be willing
>to change to different people because of their race... THEY
>want you to become more diverse..

who is THEY? Why do you think they want your life to be more diverse?

>Does that have anything to do with why I wasn't hired for that
>job? I don't know, won't ever know, nor do I care...

what I wanna know is ...

what does this have to do with Lauren Hill wanting to kill her children because some deformed albino buys her album? TELL ME!

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