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Really?

Probably true, I'm white, although one of my brothers and my girlfriend are not.

Wow... that's... pretty fucked up :/

Wow... never heard anything as racist like that around me. Like I said in the OP, I did meet 2 very racist people before in my life, but I was wise enough to put some distance between us before anything serious happened.

We don't talk much about slavery in school here either. Nothing more than just pointing out that it is bad and that we should all be glad it ended more than 150 years ago. We don't really go deep into trying to understand what life back then was like for black people.

I wish I knew more about slavery in my country. History lessons about those topics don't last very long in school, so there is little to no information at hand about it. All I could tell is that it was as horrible for slaves here as it was in the US back in the early 1800s. Then we won our independence and some 20…

I am actually white, but I've been with my girlfriend for a little over 11 years now and she is dark-skinned. We've never felt bad about our relationship, nor have we ever seen anyone who cared about it. We've always been comfortable about being in public or meeting new people.

Soy blanco y he estado saliendo durante 11 años con una mujer de color, jamás en todos estos años nos hemos sentido incómodos de ninguna manera. Nunca nos hemos cruzado con nadie que nos haya dicho algo al respecto, o que haya intentado hacernos sentir mal por nuestra relación.

Those are good points. Although I've never heard anyone using epithets in a bad way over here. Mostly they'll do it to refer to you when they don't really know your name. Kinda like how we say "maracucho" to people from "Maracibo" (second largest city here).

That's interesting. How do schools and teachers deal with that in the US? Do they teach about your social movements in the 1900s at all?

Venezuela has lived in political turmoil for pretty much all of its history since we won our independence. With so many people facing so many problems, I guess it has been to hard for all of us to even care about race.

I would argue about the fact that black people over here are the poorest members of our society... but I don't have any real numbers to show, all I have is past experience as I was once part of that group. Looking at so many poor people in my country, it's difficult to even make a case as to how many of them are black…

Was it illegal for white people to have children with black people back then in the US? Or was it just "frowned upon" by others?

You know, I've always wondered why all the resentment from that period of time is still present in modern USA. Where I live, people don't really care about any of it (and we also had a lot of black slaves back then too). Nowadays color of skin means very little in my country (Venezuela), and even though there are some…

What the guy in charge of handing out the things probably did:

Thankfully, the good lawmakers of Pennsylvania recognize this and have very recently passed legislation that makes it illegal for a stranger to touch a pregnant woman's stomach.

Or worse...

When chatting with my boss Stephen after the event, he offered the following: "Consoles don't really launch, not in the way that a rocket takes off, shitting fire and screaming into the sky. They wake up, slowly stretch their legs, stand up. Pause and yawn. Make their coffee and maybe a few hours (read: months) into…

“We are an Islamic country and kissing in public is forbidden. A simple kiss can lead to other things. These are atheists who are acting against Islam."