Night Owl
2008-05-28 12:09:33
“…They are usally very comfortable expressing thier racism. For fun one day, tell a latino that they are not white and watch the sparks fly.”
There is truth to that, especially in the older generations. Many are openly bigoted in regards to skin pigmentation, and would be insulted at the suggestion that they were not “white”.
But I believe it is a dying attitude; at least among mixed race families. My siblings and cousins, and their spouses of all races and many ethnicities, think the pigmentation distinctions are something to laugh at. I’ve never heard anyone in my extended family who is under 50 years of age, utter a bigoted remark, unless it was meant as satire.
