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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I've lived nearly every single one of my 52 years in tiny, rural, white, racist town. I knew it was wrong. I still know it. People (including family) know I know it.
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I spent the first years of my life in small, rural, non-white communities where hunting/trapping/fishing was a way of life. Average population ranged from less than 400 to 1500 with the white population in the low teens in some, less than 10 even counting my family in others. What I remain aware of from that time is that whites don't have a monopoly on racism. The inhabitants of these communities were quite willing to dislike each other based on tribal and ethnic divisions. Some of the oral histories were pretty nasty going back to the Little Ice Age.