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**horaAppagob** · 06-22-2012, 02:23 AM

I really doubt my black PR friend has less of a chance at things in life because of his skin color like in getting a job or something. That is not true. They are the same as any other mixed looking or not. It just coincides that plenty of the more admixed people are poor which is a correlative but not anything more. Even mulattoish PR's like Pierluisis son is dating a blue eyed red hair PR female from Guaynabo, the most openly racist pred white town. I think this discourses are still clinging to a past and are not noticing the future.

That I know, our racism is subtle, there is not hardcore discrimination here but we have to accept that we have some prejudices.

06-22-2012, 02:23 AM	#15
horaAppagob Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 575 Senior Member	I really doubt my black PR friend has less of a chance at things in life because of his skin color like in getting a job or something. That is not true. They are the same as any other mixed looking or not. It just coincides that plenty of the more admixed people are poor which is a correlative but not anything more. Even mulattoish PR's like Pierluisis son is dating a blue eyed red hair PR female from Guaynabo, the most openly racist pred white town. I think this discourses are still clinging to a past and are not noticing the future. That I know, our racism is subtle, there is not hardcore discrimination here but we have to accept that we have some prejudices.
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