Have You Ever Had A Non White Person Or Couple For Dinner In Your Home?

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    Okay, the more I think about it, the less I like threads like this. First of all, this assumes that everyone here is white, which is not true. It also suggests that inviting a black person to dinner makes you a better person, and that's pretty racist in its own right, albeit couched as virtue signaling. Why is it a virtue for a white person to invite a non-white person into their home? Some people don't invite anyone into their home for dinner, while others may not live around any non-white people. Why is it necessary for someone to check that box anyhow?

    Some of us here are not white. Others have people in their family who are not white, and I'm thinking that most of us have people who are close to us who aren't white, and we don't invite them to dinner so that we can brag about having a non-white person in our home. I couldn't care less about the tone of another person's skin.

    When we make it a virtue to give to the poor, we are putting ourselves above those who we are helping, although it may be helpful to the poor. Non-white people are not helped by being invited into the home of a white person, particularly not if that's the only reason they were invited. We shouldn't invite someone into our home for dinner in order to check that box or to consider ourselves a better person for having done so. Most of us invite someone to our house for dinner because we enjoy being with them, and are happy when they accept the invitation. I just don't see what skin color has to do with it.

    That's my opinion, anyhow. Am I making too much of it?
     
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    I agree totally; this type of thread seems divisive and is based on faulty assumptions. And NO, you are not making too much of it.
     
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  3. Lon Tanner

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    You are certainly Entitled to your opinion but are so very wrong on so may points. Your not liking this kind of thread really tells me a lot about you Ken.
     
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    I don't get out much, but I didn't see any ulterior motive in the OP. Just another little slice of life that we are free to respond to as we see fit, or to ignore. I certainly didn't see it as a form of virtue signalling....

    YMMV
     
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  5. Al Amoling

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    I have to wonder why you seem to always include race in your posts
     
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  6. Beth Gallagher

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    "Research." :p
     
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    Not sure who you are referring to in this post....
     
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    Pretty much sums up my thoughts. And I won't use my friends for purposes of public display.
     
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    Would you like me to go back 4 days and copy/paste what you wrote about us? Well, here ya go!!
     
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    Nevermind . If Mr.Potato Head is racist I don't stand a chance in this debate.
     
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  11. Lon Tanner

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    Yes--You are making too much of it and assuming much GUESSING!!
     
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    Nothing like a trip to the zoo and observing primate behavior.

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    Prejudice? Racism and bigotry? As a kid growing up in suburban Chicago, having non-Caucasian guests over would have resulted in vicious retaliation; your house would likely have been torched, just a an apartment building one block away was attacked by about 4,000 demonstrators when the owner rented an apartment to a black family.
    The building:
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    National Guard troops fending off rioters:
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    This occurred when I was 9 years old. Typical of prevailing attitudes in Crook County, Illinois. Barbed wire fence was installed by the troops; my dad had to produce ID to get to our house coming home from work; my mother, who never drove a car, but trudged to Cermak Road nearly daily for our food, had no ID, but was granted a pass by understanding soldiers, some of whom looked like kids......

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