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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

There are few black folk in Arizona.  Lots of Mexicans and South/Central 
Americans, though.  It is strange seeing cultural shifts moving from one 
region to another.

  People in the deep south have a much longer relationship with the black/ 
white thing.  I think that is why people in the South live a much more 
progressive, racially, life than people elsewhere. People from other areas 
talk about living in racial harmony.  People in the South must do it, daily.

I have so many friends , acquaintances , and business people with whom I 
interact who are of hispanic heritage, that sometimes, I just forget that 
this isn't the norm, everywhere.  But, I also know the barrios where simply 
being white can be an invitation to danger.  You have too be a realist to 
survive.

 My only remaining black friend in Phoenix is , like me, originally from the 
South.  He; and I think his opinion is not isolated, mis-trusts the racial 
cooing from white liberals.  He has lived long enough to know how you 
interact with someone in daily life is more important than singing & 
preaching academic multi-culturalism.  

He is very happy for BO, as I imagined he would be, and he is culturally much 
more conservative than I am .....bobford




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--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The longest post yet-Anger
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 10:02 AM
> > Not zero, but only 0.6% of  40,000 or so in the county.
>  There is very
> > little, if any political discussion here. We are far
> removed from much of
> > what the federal government does.
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > Tioga Co. PA
> 
>  >From my perspective, that is zero, Lynn.  ;)
> >Where is your nearest black community?
> 
> The smaller cities (30-50,000 people) in surrounding
> counties have black 
> populations of about 12-13%. I'm not aware of any large
> community of blacks 
> within 100 miles of here.  Harrisburg (150 miles away) has
> a large black 
> population (over 50%, I think).
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA 
> 
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