@hightor,
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I wrote this prior to reading your last response. So, while my comment that you aren’t addressing me no longer applies, my question about your awareness (or lack thereof) of your own privilege stands.
I notice that you are not responding directly to me about this, even though in your responses to others you have made reference to my responses to you.
You express disdain at the absurdity of skin-color classification. I say that dealing with race as if it’s an intellectual exercise is a luxury- a privilege, if you will - for only white people to indulge. And I say that’s precisely because they don’t have to experience the consequences of having society at large judge them by skin color.
I can’t help wondering now if you are not too shallow or supercilious to even realize that.