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.

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

Doesn't bother me until people start expecting some specific sort of behaviour out of me. I've been the only black girl in the whole school, and I've lived in the black majority country or area. They both can have their oppressions.

I appreciate every time someone who missteps wants to fix things so they don't make the same mistake again. That way rifts are healed, sometimes before they are even made. By the same token it can get really old when you're the racial education task force again.

And even weirder was being around so many white Christians.

My current neighborhood is very racially/ethnically diverse. The community center where I work out seems to break down to about 75% black, 25% white. There's also always a lot of kids, because the community center has a teen after-school program, kids' karate and ballet classes, and basketball in the gymnasium.

I didn't realize how accustomed I am to the proportions of races and ages at the gym, until last night. As I was leaving the gym, a bunch of people were arriving for a workshop of some sort, and it was all boomer-age white men and women in business suits, and I thought "What the hell are they doing here?"