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I am white and my husband is Hispanic, but on at least two occasions in the past three years, he has had people tell him that he looks like Saddam Hussein! Plus we have experienced the occasional anti-Hispanic comment. It is very strange that in both these cases the people who made the remarks did so right to his face, as if they didn't think it would affect him.

Wish I could hear the rest of the discussion, but I've had to go in to work. In my workplace, I can hear any of the following languagues, on any given day: English, Hebrew, Vietnamese, a couple different dialects of Chinese, several Indian languages, and Spanish. Perhaps it is the fact that it's a work situation, where we have to work together and so people set aside prejudicial feelings, but in nearly twenty years with my company I've never felt it was a racist environment.

Thanks for providing a forum where we can share our experiences and begin this kind of discussion. I agree with many of the other posters, as well as Senator Obama, that the only way we will ever get past racism in our society is to recognize that it has happened and is happening. Only then can we start talking and working on it.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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