God bless notesfromtheuk.com for her endless honesty and sharp observations. This is really enlightening.
After writing a guest post about American racism I don’t seem to be ready to leave the topic. My mind keeps circling back to something I’ve avoided writing about until now: British racism.
Why am I avoiding this? Tact? Nah. I have the occasional moment of tact, but as a rule I’m not paralyzed by it. That it’s a hard topic to be funny about? In part, but I hope to manage a bright spot here and there. Ignorance? Well, yeah, there is that. I’ve lived in the U.K. for nine years. That doesn’t make me an expert. It’s a huge, sprawling topic. Plus I live in an absurdly white part of the country. Although my friends and family are a multi-hued (and multi-many other thinged) group, my friends in this country, for the most part, are not.
But still, I listen. I hear things.
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Praying for Eyebrowz 
Again, my thanks.
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Recently, I had a chat with a friend. She is African, Zambian, but lives in Europe at least 15-20 years. She told me about racism in Africa. There are many countries and tribes, and some of the nations are treated really bad by the others. Indians and Asians are also barely tolerated. What I want to tell – racism has no color.
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So true. Early in American history Italian Americans were treated poorly, then Irish Americans and so on. We always seem to need to feel superior to someone else.
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Exactly – racism is just one of the evils we are carrying inside, probably genetically 😦
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