]Good, I agree, newman. You're right. It is what it is. I can't argue with that.
I don't know what my problem is with people like you. Maybe I'm worried that if I'm walking down the street, minding my business someone like you would just assume I'm either a baby mamma, I'm on welfare, I'm a drug addict, I'm a crack head or I'm the woman or girlfriend of a gang banger than to see me for what I truely am. That's the unfortunate part of this.
We all get that in one form or another, Erica.
I'm a middle-aged, unmarried white male.......the EXACT demographic that commits most sexual offences against children in my country. If I'm in a park minding my own business, I've no doubt some people worry that I might be after the kiddies.
It's life. It's a fact. GET OVER IT.
You know... I just told you that you were right, then you give me attitude? I could tell YOU to get over the fact that blacks are here to stay. But that's something you'll NEVER get over. Its never fair to be singled out because of what most of your race does. It isn't fair at all and I have a right to what I feel.
I remember one evening I was in the store with two of my children and a white woman approached me asking me about my daughters' hair. She apparently liked how "we people" did our daughters' hair..then asked me, "So are you with the father?" My first thought was to roll my eyes and walk away but I told her that (at the time) I was married for 9 years to their father. She said..."Oh, I see...Well, is he in the picture..." It took that one white female person to look at me and peg me for a single black mom, whose husband was in jail- and that wasn't the case at all. That made me very uncomfortable because if this was the way one white woman saw black women just shopping with their children, how did the rest of the whites view us? SOmetimes assumptions hurt like hell, especially when you don't deserve it.