However, both types of music, can be loaded with associations-including racist ones-for some individuals and for some groups of people.

Perhaps you would accept that being loaded is not the same as actually being fired?

And some people can find racist associations and see offence - it would seem in almost anything. And some seem determimed not only to do so but to make everyone else feel forever guilty about their single-minded determination.

I was told once that in order to be offended - you had to subconsciously appear in some way to have given your permission for someone to offend you. That is possibly rubbish - or it may not be.

Azizi are you forever going to see yourself sitting at your college table and refusing invitations to sit with other groups? You seem almost determined - to stay in that isolated position here on our forum despite many warm approaches from people of whatever racial origin. There is little firm evidence to support your view of being minority here of two - as very few posters seem to see the need to express their racial grouping in the normal course of exchanges here. Many only seem to do so in response to threads like these.

I suggest that (as you say) yours is an American view - where many cultures appear to exist in one land but almost as if in separate countries and do not really have much common ground. The strength of our forum is the opportunity to read how other cultures with different histories deal with these issues - perhaps not to attempt to also tie them down to the way it tends to be done in the U.S.A?

I do not say that other counties had found the way to do it properly. Do you consider that the U.S way is the one everyone else should follow?