<p>I would love nothing more than to not have to worry about race but unfortunately it is interwoven into the fabric of our culture. I wish you were right but in this case you are being too simple.</p>
<p>Doesn’t it really come down to the innate human tendency to look for shared experiences to bond with others: you both lived in TX, you have something to connect on; you both lived in France, you have a commonality; you both speak Spanish, you have common ground; we both use Macs, we can connect; we are both the same religion, we understand each other .</p>
<p>How often do we meet some one, online or IRL, and look for areas of common interest. It is easy to assume that because we are both the same race we must have some common experience, and probably in some areas that is true, but the Ramirez from Mexico, Peru, Cuba, SoCal, and the Philippines have all had very different lives- perhaps most speak Spanish, perhaps many are Catholic, but do they really share more than the Mexican girl and the Asian girl who went to the same HS in the same town???</p>
<p>I have definitely met people who are the same race, but have vastly different lives- the black girl not from the inner city, the Mexican girl who does not speak Spanish, the Asian girl who is not into her education, sadly they are all disrespected by others of their race.</p>
<p>“I would love nothing more than to not have to worry about race but unfortunately it is interwoven into the fabric of our culture. I wish you were right but in this case you are being too simple.”</p>
<p>I suppose you can say that my values are evident in my username. Like I said before, don’t inject race into everyday life its so pointlesss and there is so so so so much more to life than race/religion/skin/etc. and hopefully with maturity and time you and the remainder of people will see this. Yes, there are people who are racist or like to divide on race/religion/etc. but guess what those people are quiet frankly the rejects of society. They aren’t the future CEO’s, world leaders or scientists they are pathetic and have no self-esteem and instead of dealing with their own problems channel their pain into racism/hate. But you know what if you want to achieve and making something of yourself, you and others will rise above this ******** and open your eyes and realize that there is so much more to life. Its really sad how after the Civil Rights Movement we still like to inject race into everyday life; I wonder what Dr. King or Abraham Lincoln or Mahatma Gandhi would say if they could see the world even after their sacrifices. Anyway, that’s my input and you and the remainder of the posters are free to debate this issue as long as you after all that is the idea of democracy. But remember this, everytime we’re debating relationship between crime and race or admission rates and race we could actually be doing something forward and moving away from the superficial boundaries that divide us as people, wouldn’t that be lovely.</p>
<p>I don’t think most of us sit around and dwell on the subject of race. I just happen to believe that the lack of open discussion on it by whites creates a bigger problem. I think we would be so much further ahead on race relations, and closer to what you espouse in it not mattering, if people could speak their minds. It’s not the 60’s anymore. I know there is deep racism in some. I think a lot of the things that happen that are viewed as racism are just latent frustration. If I see a discussion on Affirmative Action and I chime in with “I’m tired of hearing about Affirmative Action…deal with it” then I get labeled as a racist. Nothing racist about my comment other than the fact that I wasn’t supporting AA. I know that is a simple 
analogy and likey doesn’t get the whole point across but I’m not racist, just tired of only hearing about one side of the race issue.</p>
<p>Question: Everytime I go to this thread to read the posts, an advertisement for AfroRomance pops up with a link to afroromance.com. It is not happening on any other CC threads. Given the topic of the thread, I thought it was really strange. Is this happening to other posters?</p>
<p>The CC site has ad scanners that look for key words in the discussions, that trigger related ads. There was a thread once upon a time, where someone was trying to purposely trigger ads dealing with specific topics. Llamas was a popular one. If you go to other threads, you’ll find ads related to those threads. They seem to alternate between topic-specific ads and college-related ads.</p>
<p>I see. The ads on other threads I visit are about colleges. Thanks, binx.</p>
<p>Hm, I have sexy Asian dating & donate an egg to a Jewish couple now-strange and interesting how those ad scanners work</p>
<p>I have furniture ads from meijer? Back to the topic? LOL </p>
<p>MODERATOR’S EDIT: </p>
<p>There is a new FAQ thread on the aspect of this issue that most pertains to college admission </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/742349-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-4-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/742349-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-4-a.html</a> </p>
<p>and now that this thread has been inactive for a while, it is closed.</p>