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In reply to the discussion: Why do so many more black men marry white women than vice versa? [View all]shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)and I imagine that the people who do consider this thread "radioactive" mean well, but their concern is probably a bit misplaced.
I very much enjoy discussing these sort of issues with African Americans when I get the opportunity (which does not come around often, being in Australia), but less so with white American liberals.
White American liberals seem to have this inbuilt filtration system that comes on whenever race is mentioned, and everything thenceforth that emanates from them is triple-filtered to make sure it contains nothing even faintly contentious or opinionated. But I can understand why (history, culture etc).
I have noted that Black people often pick up on the "filtration system", and they don't particularly like it:-
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1seelc/black_people_of_reddit_who_have_spent_time_in/
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