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Of course you don't confront the black person who's offended you with such behavior; it's far too easy to chalk it up to white influence rather than to the offending black person's inablility to think for himself.
You obviously need to get more sun or something...
You're ofF to assuming what the hell I would or wouldn't do, again.

Poor wittle, wonlely, White w(g)uy w(t)hinks w(t)he world w(r)evolves w(a)round him!
Sorry that your "I wish I knew what Black people know" butt isn't privy to what happens to Black people that cop that posture. So, I guess that's why you speculate, huh? LACK of knowledge will make the insecure assume knowledge, huh?
FREE LOADER!
I'm not going to sponsor your Black Education.
Just because you're oblivious to things that don't fit the "profile" of sh*t you want to believe, don't go aSSuming that you and Whites like you are the object of Black's Indignant Affection...
THIS IS MY LAST POST TO YOUR.... all too aSSuming a$$! I left out the fact that most of my experience on my job and more specifically people in other fields so to speak that I come in contact with who happen to be White are the ones I can faintly remember playing that role. I didn't mention it because it was irrelevant here. I think I already told you: INTELLIGENCE = knowing how to separate and not mix issues.
Go back and read what I agreed to Sunnubian about - i.e. what I actually said. CONTEXT and actual CONTENT might help you. If you are insinuating that I let Black people off the hook when I don't do the same for Whites... then read what I said again...
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Kind of like some of the everyday racist remarks and undercurrents that are brushed off due to the "ignorance" of the purveyors... Some of that stuff, you pay no mind.
Well.... I felt like I would help you.
That's a direct reference to White racism, big and small... (well mostly small)...
Hmmm.... did you read the last line?
(Sounds like it's a lot of White individuals who I can vividly remember that I letting "off the hook" and... as you say... charging it to [White] societal influence and not to the individuals ability to think for themselves.)
POINT OF DEPARTURE:
In the spirit of what some of your "ilk" likes to say... (and I think you've said something resembling) - i.e. Blacks have it good here in "America"... You really should ponder how good Whites have that Blacks are not or have not engaged in resistance like others around the globe.
I let you ponder on that... Suffice it to say you might not sleep as well if Blacks explored the realm of everything they could do now or then considering that we "blame everything" on the "White Man"...
Also, you can't erase the history of this country, the social structure and socialization just because you wished or "hope" it was/is not so. "Hoping" for reality to not be so is engaging in fantasy and delusional thinking. To the extent that you think that [the troubled history and reality of the U.S.] implicates you directly as a White guy in an unfavorable manner or one that "unfairly" hinders/hampers you... shows you relative level of maturity.
I won't aSSume that you take the opinion that others of your "ilk" (your term) do... But I find it funny how conversations with Whites like yourself almost always get to a point where "they" eventually say... "LIFE ISN'T FAIR"... "DEAL WITH IT!"
I wonder why you are having problems dealing with whatever you perceive to be the reality you are faced with...
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