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Originally Posted by djchameleon
idk who he is referring to with brown but desi refer to themselves as brown.
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Yes this.
I actually have a related question for everyone. I have noticed overtime that many people describe friends in stories by their race if they aren't the same.
For instance, my friend will be telling a story like "I was with "so and so" my BLACK friend" and then continue the story, but if it was some white guy they are talking about it's "I was with my friend "so and so"".
This is not just white people I have black/spanish friends that do it too.
Anyway, I brought this up to someone one day and I was saying how I never do it and found it to be mildly racist even if it wasn't truly/purposefully offensive. I think mentioning it is appropriate if their race is relative to the story but other than that why do we feel the need to emphasize such things?
Sub-conscious racism? I kinda think so.