And I chuckled at the thought of various people I'd grown up with who CERTAINLY would have noticed RIGHT AWAY and been QUITE ALARMED (of course, these are people who likely would never have been on a subway car regardless)if they'd been the only white person anywhere.

I'm the only white person in my house right now AIFG!

Me too!

Catching up after a long day--msbelle, I am so sorry for the hassles. I hope you can get something worked out, and soon.

I'm the only white person in my house right now AIFG!

I guess I am too.

Well, once we have a ruling on that whole Hispanic thing.

I soak in white privilege every day.

And I was part of the minority in my high school (which was mostly Pacific Islander and black). To this day, I am uncomfortable in any homogeneous setting. It's one of the reasons I moved to Oakland, actually, from the Peninsula. I don't just notice colors, I want them all around me! I crave all kinds of peeps, from all walks of life and all ancestry because I am a selfish bitch who knows they make my life richer for being in it.

To this day, I am uncomfortable in any homogeneous setting.

Java is me. Going to college in the midwest after growing up in DC was a huge culture shock. I'd never been around so many white people in my life. (And even weirder was being around so many white Christians. The only mostly-monochrome situation I was ever in as a kid was synagogue, so I was pretty much completely unprepared for Middle America Suburbia.)

I think my run of waking up wide awake at o'dark thirty is done.

And even weirder was being around so many white Christians.

This was me, going to college in Tallahassee. After the mélange that was Miami, it was quite the shock to see so much white blondeness. Thank God for band, you know? The only homogeny there was that we all loved music.

It can sometimes be hard to swallow, but I prefer to be called on my insensitivity.

Me too. Maybe I can't unsay or undo the stupid thing I said or did, but at least I can get it right next time.

And even weirder was being around so many white Christians.

That's the sort of place I grew up. My parents tried very hard to raise my sister and me as non-racists, but it was all very theoretical until I moved to Greensboro, NC, just before 11th grade. Now I feel odd every time I go back north to visit my sister.

I'd never been around so many white people in my life.

It is very, very white--especially in the small towns. But it's changing all the time. There are larger communities of hispanics, as well as Somalis and other groups. The change takes a loooooong time, though.