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The Man I Love (Free verse) by Dovina

is not the all-American macho, handsome, athletic, rich hunk they’re promoting. My man is the one with his morning coffee pensively pondering a page - clean, but maybe not shaven gentleman, thinker, comic. He can be a bit fat or maybe too thin homely perhaps or drift with the wind. But if his words rest like pillows and he understands mine if he knows what I mean and when I get him, grins then his car doesn’t matter his face can be scarred he can have a few habits and nights with the boys because I’ve got what I want and he knows it.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16-Feb-05/3:07 AM
Yes well rather sensibly MY definition COINCIDES with the ACTUAL definition:

racism n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

And NO, asserting that polynesians are mostly attractive does not make you racist. But if you had the INTEGRITY to admit that you find polynesians MORE ATTRACTIVE than other races that would indeed be a discrimination based on race, and therefore racist.




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