[C.]

I hope so! I’ve gone on a number of occasions with an openly gay friend. We like to dance, and he had a favorite bar, while I didn’t really care where we went. I celebrated my 30th birthday with good-looking men who didn’t want to sleep with me but who were very glad to spin me around the dance floor. As long as you tip waitstaff well and aren’t judgmental, there shouldn’t be a problem.

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[C.]

If you don’t believe blacks can be racist, what word would you use to describe a black person who dislikes, distrusts, resents, prejudges or denigrates a person on the basis of his or her color, ethnicity or religion? Unfortunately, SOME Jews were involved in slavery – just as some black Africans were willing purveyors of other black humans for involuntary servitude. No racial, ethnic or religious group has clean hands on the sordid issue of slavery.

Regarding the Holocaust: there’s far too much documentary evidence establishing its occurrence, and you might check some history books, because if I’m not mistaken, African Americans were among the blessed, wonderful soldiers who liberated the death camps.

Your being ‘pro-Palestine’ doesn’t necessarily equate with being anti-Jewish, unless you make it so. A number of Jews – in America, Israel and elsewhere – are troubled by the Palestinian issue.

Before getting your membership card in this organization, do some self-examination. Are you against Jews as those who practice a monotheistic religion based upon the first five books of the Old Testament (the Torah), or are you dissatisfied with Israeli political policies regarding Palestinians? Only you can answer that question. It’s worth noting that a number of traditionally anti-black groups, notably the KKK, had no more affection for Jews (or Catholics or other religious or racial minoritie) than they had for blacks specifically. The same hotel ballrooms that blacks had to enter through a service door before performing onstage were often ‘restricted,’ meaning they did not allow a Jewish clientele. Jews died alongside blacks during the struggle for civil rights in the United States, a fact your recruiter probably ‘conveniently’ forgot to mention.

This posting saddens, far more than angers, me, because this ‘divide-and-conquer’ approach further estranges two groups with far more in common than recognized. It’s interesting that your new group is blaming Jews for the racial divide, when that is exactly what it is doing to minority groups. Knowledge is power, and clearly you have internet access. If you’re still serious about joining, research each of the group’s allegations, and try to find multiple sources to support – and knock holes in – each position.

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[C.]

A lot of Southerners use ‘Miss’ or ‘Mr.’ in front of a first name to refer to an older friend of the family. My white, Jewish mother grew up in Memphis, Tenn., and all of my grandmother’s friends were ‘Miss So-and-So.’ I couldn’t call them by their first names, but we were too friendly to call them ‘Mrs. Smith.’ I don’t know about the ‘Anne’ or ‘Amy’, but the ‘Miss’ is very common in my part of the country.

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[C.]

Don’t assume we all do. I’d love to see it legitimized.

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[C.]

I’m outside the requested age group, but willing to weigh in. A few names to consider: Michael Jordan. Ving Rhames. Sean Connery. Andre Agassi. Confidence is hotter than the best head of hair. I would tell any man I was interested in not to go the Rogaine route on my account. Spend the money on clothes instead.

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[C.]

Grandmothers differ just as parents and siblings do. I have one grandmother who baked cookies, remembers birthdays and kept an extra Raggedy Ann doll at her house for me when I visited. The other grandmother I barely knew and have no warm memories of. She was not a nurturing mother (fortunately, her husband was nurturing, because he reared a fantastic son, who is my dad.) It’s not clear how old your child is, but you might want to start explaining that all people can’t be good at all things. Some people just lack patience with children. Try to accept her on her terms, and if that’s at arm’s length, so be it.

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[C.]

Implicit in your posting is the assumption that whites never face discrimination. Sorry to disillusion you, but that just isn’t so. Try being overweight. Try having acne. Try being something other than a size-0 cover-girl in a big city. I have been treated differently in upscale stores simply by virtue of what I’m wearing. I don’t assume that all African-Americans are in a gang or afraid of water any more than I would hope you assume all whites are dirty corporate executives who can’t dance.

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[C.]

By making eye contact and smiling? Or am I being too obvious?

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