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Originally Posted by Nickatilynx
On a serious note...
I've chatted in icq with Timon over this at some length.
I'd say he is rather sensitive to the race thing.
But when you hear what he has had to put up with in his life , it is understandable.
A WASP like me literally cannot even imagine it....
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Well I can agree with that (though not being a WASP). And had I known it was a sore point, I'd have never gone there.
Funny thing, if he had not mentioned it recently, I would have forgotten he was black. And -- before I get in needless trouble for this -- it wouldn't have mattered. I do not try to "remember what color someone is", because really, it doesn't matter. I don't "see" color or "think" color. I "think and see" a person. Period.
Now I'm only mentioning it because I would have made the little cartoon guy the color white or biege or yellow (by not remembering) and then I would STILL have put all that goofy shit on him. Identical!!
Again, he made a silly, bad, foolish looking cartoon of me, and I was only getting Timon back. The color issue is what HE put onto it. No more, no less.
Oh and .... I'm Black Irish. That should count for something, no?
