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Was so afraid to pivot from any weightlifting to just running but the results have been way better tbh
Just realizing that lil thread the other day posted out if order but hopefully yall can piece it together
Further elaborating what I meant. Racism based in stupidity is ignoring logic or adherence to stereotypes that are obviously just that despite being around said people you continue to “other”. Ex white americans who find reason to hate black people
And it hit me that while in the states that would seem…off? I couldnt expect an 18yr old girl, in a country that hadnt had “regular” black visitors(usually students) since the Soviet era. Which ended before she was even born. Her confusion or assumptions were not based in a
I made this ignorance distinction in my mind in Lithuania when a friend of the friend I was visiting told me she was upset “ Our friend said his black friend was visiting, but you arent black, you are only kind of brown”
Another was me being in Lithuania visiting a friend. The only thing I was told about my skin tone(because nobody would assume I was half black even) was not to go by the train stations at night due to gang violence. And that I looked to similar to the romani people.
And while that example still has some racist undertones and motivations it was not to demean my friend. It may have been racist to treat someone that way but the intention was not to be harmful. It was done through curiosity from a lack of exposure to someone so different
What I did see was, on three separate occasions people walking up to him and just handing them their babies or small children. Just so they could take a picture. Not because it was funny, but because they had never seen someone like him and wanted proof for their children.
Racism based in ignorance. Best example I can give of is my time in Vietnam. I was traveling with a friend who is very dark skinned, has dreads, and is clearly west African by all perceptions. Nobody ever treated him unfairly, or acted differently to him than of others.
Despite them being here for hundreds of years and many if their issues caused systemically by the same people. Its just fucking stupid.
