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Long fingernails? (just an aside)

That's a new one on me.

I know you are Hispanic and by your tone you seem to feel a brotherhood with blacks for the prejudice they experience. In my life I have had several very close friends who were Hispanic and I don't mean that in the "some of my best friends" sense. They were bff's, to use the current vernacular.

I was close with them and I met and associated with their families and friends. They felt no such racial brotherhood and in fact most of them disliked blacks intensely. This was not a Southern racial thing, it was more like a caste thing.

They were well educated and not conservative to my knowledge but they felt a definite superiority far greater than I ever felt as a Southern boy.

Most of them originated from Spanish cultures where Hispanic blacks and non-black were well integrated for hundreds of years but the "blanco" pride was pervasive.

I am willing to bet that race and politics are a hot topic at your family reunions.

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