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Originally Posted by JimJohnson
If you were a white male in 1966 and you were not racist, you were breaking the rules of 1966. We were all raised in a racist society then. The question is, are you a racist now?
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To fit the age of the OP, I'd have to go back a few years earlier, so let's say 1956. In my life experience this generalization doesn't fit for me. Though I can't agree or disagree that we were all raised in a racist society, if I was, then I must have not been exposed to it. I grew up in a large city up north where, yes, there were ethnic and racial neighborhoods, but there were many areas that were mixed. I don't recall that there were rules the poster is referring to being broken, and as a kid it did not occur to me that it was any different anywhere else (though evidently it was). I have no recollection of white privilege among kids, but I vividly recall it among adults. I dated members of minority groups and had—and still have—friends, some close, among different groups. I never thought of this as an issue—and am not about to start doing so now.