There are so many Mudcatters and people outside of Mudcat who have done so much more than I have to fight for an advance the cause of equality for all. If starting this thread, and posting my thoughts to it have helped advance that cause, good. However, I didn't start this conversation because I had that lofty goal.

Also, I feel the need to say that the points that I've been trying to make in this thread are different than those points that I tried to make in the Response To Racism thread. {Btw. isn't it interesting that those threads were starting a week and two years apart from each other? That certainly wasn't planned}

In that Response to Racism thread, the question I raised was how members of a community should respond to overtly racist commentary. The comments which that the impetus for this thread were more about how people perceive persons of different races, and the misunderstandings that may occur via the written word between people of different races.

That said, since this thread focuses on racism, in the next two posts that I submit to this thread, I'm going to take the liberty to add the words of Hilda Fish-another Mudcatter who is a person of color.

I haven't seen any posts from Hilda for a while. And I didn't ask her prior permission to repost her comments on this thread. However Hilda Fish had given me permission to repost her comments on a page on my website about race & racism. {I've since retired that page to focus that website on rhymes, chants, cheers, and "non-traditional" personal names}. Given her previous permission, I don't think that Hilda Fish would mind me reposting her comments on this thread.