Originally posted by personal jesus
i almost feel cheapened to respond to this post but i will anyway. in the US there is an underlying system that says that white anglo-saxon heterosexual male is normative. if you are white the issue of your race does not come up in your daily life because being with is normal. it is therefore not surprising that whites tend to naively think "oh why cant everyone just not worry about their race like i do?" of course race does not matter is your race is the dominate one. this "racial" stuff as you put it is necessary because we do not live in a color blind society despite how much white americans wish the race problem would just go away (assimilate). try for one day to think what it must feel like to be considered outside of the norm your entire life and you might being to understand why race still matters in the US.