OT-This is kind of controversial

[Trek420]

Interesting thing about the internet - you can reveal or not reveal as much as you want about yourself - race and sexual orientation can be as private or as public as you choose to make them.

But you've met me so you know I'm actually a FtM Bald Aboriginal Left Handed Muslim double amputee.

But that's also the thing about life in general. I've had people say things to my face that are discriminatory and not know that I'm a member of said group or have family that are. And I tell them "I don't find that funny" or "I'm offended by that" and sometimes get

"But you're not ______".

Well it does not matter if I am or not, or if my t-shirt says "I'm not Black but my great nephew is" and I'm not saying we all have to be so very painfully politically correct and can't joke or say anything.

But at some point we say as a society we're not havin' it. And yes, nooses, burning crosses....very frightening. And in school? If there is any student who does not know history they are not reading or learning enough.

My best friends uncle ran for his life to escape a mob, a friend, slower .... lost his. This is not ancient stuff.

I recall in Junior High School being called a "Dirty Jew" by another student so I know a bit of how it feels to have discrimination in school.