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Hiya Rockin --

I have to confess I kinda didn't want to click in - not that I thought you WERE really racist at all BUT that cringing feeling of what on earth is this about.... so I'm more with Steve on this one, ALTHOUGH it's very clever and well-written. And YES it's obvious it's a play with words, it's just... is that how you wanna play and are you sure.

I'd just go with "Racer" - but...... then you lose your wordplay sorta, mostly, nearly.

It's all your call-- but it IS as Steve said, something that really hurts people, and many of us who "live white" don't comphrehend the pain and injustice day by day that others go through-- just in how the white "other" looks at you in the store or talks to you at the counter.

It is not dead as some would want to believe. Sadly.

I've met, I don't know how many people who don't *think* they're racist and will say so--then you get talking to them and boy the stuff that falls out of mouths, incorrect assumptions etc., can be quite alarming.

Just sayin'.

I'm 1/4 Mexican - doesn't show on the surface - and I was raised with stories of what my grandmother went through in the 30's. And told not to tell people I was of "Hispanic" origin at all, IE, in other words/places that's called "passing for white."

I got tired of that as an adult and tell everyone about my Mexican grandma.

And I wish I was more tan. Urgh.



Anyway -- not knocking ya' - this is a clever write, but the title made me cringe. Too many friends who've been hurt by it.

Linda