Thank you Azizi for your reply. I was puzzled why you would write :

Should people ignore offensive posts? If so, what about the feelings those posts cause? I think that ignoring them would be unhealthy.

in your opening post, in light of your absence from these many recent racist threads.

And above you have written :

I have read some if not all of those threads you mentioned, but I rarely post on them. With regard to the Irish and other European issues and movements, I am still in a learning mode. For instance,
I had never heard of BNP until I read about that organization/political party on Mudcat.

However, my absence [with regard to the posting record] from a thread that discusses efforts and movements for equal justice under the law and intercultural understanding should not be interpreted as my not caring about those movements. I do. Very Much.


I hope that you equally understand that in the UK our experience of the discrimination that African Americans face is limited which may explain our lack of involvement in the threads you find offensive.

That looks better with the italics in the right place! I hope.