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[shadowkat]

Before I try to sleep again. Doing a lot of hacking so putting it off.

1) I've no clue what is happening with British Royal Family at the moment.
Nor care. Except that Twitter keeps talking about mishaps of their publicity campaign, and that Kate appears to be missing in action. The difficulty with the internet is you can't avoid news you don't care about.

2.) As a result of brain fog...I've forgotten what I was going to say...

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[brittdreams]

I'm not here to dispute your personal experiences but I will say that they are not the same as mine. I was the only Black kid in class or one of 2-3 for my entire childhood. Undergrad and grad school were no different. I am typically one of the only Black women in my workplace, and that's been true everywhere I have worked full-time except McDonald's.

[shadowkat]

Thanks for sharing.

It may be industry, environment, and state related? I mean we aren't living in the same place or working in the same industry? And each one is different?

Because admittedly there's a huge difference between say working in New York City and Rochester, NY. Or working in Boston, and in Mobile, Alabama. Or working for a private college and a huge state university?

This is another thing that I'm not sure it's a good idea to generalize about - because so much is based on where, locality, etc. But I think we all want to? (shrugs) I know, I fell into that trap - in generalizing - and thinking that my experience was broader than I thought. I have a co-worker who was shocked by the racism she encountered in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she grew up in NYC and hadn't really encountered it to that extent. (She's a Black woman). Meanwhile my mother remembers when there were separate fountains for Whites and for Blacks - she grew up in Missouri and has always experienced segregation - she sees it in South Carolina.

It's as if we're all living in different countries - I think sometimes. But we think we're living in the same one.