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Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay
you have got to be kidding me. what is this based upon?
i find that there are idiots, racists, etc, everywhere. small towns and the countryside don't hold a monopoly on the same.
i did have to set a coworker straight this morning. she was repeating something she got in an email--that obama was a muslim and had taken his oath of office on the koran. i told her that she was incorrect on both counts.
i had to bite my tongue however, when tempted to ask wtf would it matter?! and i got plenty of backup in the discussion that followed, from a fellow small town, countryside liver...of course, he MAY have been educated. 
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I know here at my college that I haven't really found any, and you see interracial dating all of the time here. No one makes comments or anything. Of course, there could be closet racists. Just because I haven't seen any doesn't mean they aren't here. I was sort of arguing in Cajun's defense. I live in an extremely liberal city. If I wasn't dating someone of a different race then I would tend to not think about discrimination very much at my current location. I feel no pressure when walking around campus with him. However, there are plenty in other places that I have been where racists can be found everywhere, and I do feel the pressure of society bearing down on me. Like I said, if you have been in an area where racists don't exist for an extended period of time, then I guess you could tend to not think about it very much. Cajun just simply stated that she didn't know any, and I was trying to explain how that could be to other board members on her behalf.