@Bl3ss3dm0m
Some of you seem to be deliberately trying to turn things I have said into bigoted, racist, idiotic questions and statements, and if that makes you feel better about yourselves, then go ahead, knock yourselves out.
I asked a genuine question because I am not racist, although I am an "ist" which I have not tried to hide on other posts. I am a culturist, although not a blind believer that everyone who comes from that culture must all be bad, but I am enough of one to wish that I didn't feel the need to be one. However, any individual I meet, whatever their culture, is always met as an equal, what happens after that of course will be the same as everyone else who is not a saint; I will form opinions of them, and they will inform opinions of me, as many of you have done with me, on scant real evidence of my RL - it is just what we humans do. Back to the subject here. As I am not a racist, skin colour, country of origin, religion, gender, sexual preferences (apart from paedophiles) are unimportant to me, but I genuinely didn't want, in my ignorance (and yes of course I am ignorant about many things) to inadvertently hurt anyones feelings. This seems to make me a bad person on MN, but hey ho, I have broad shoulders, and a thick skin, so I won't collapse from the injustice of it all. Of course I already know not to use words like the "n" word, but then I never would, I don't believe in hurling disgusting abuse at people. However, I am beginning to realise that being reasonable and not wanting to be rude to other people is frowned on by way too many people on Mum's Net, so whilst on here I will try to learn who those people are, and just ignore them.
I did not join this particular "discussion" because I wanted anyone to teach me how to not be racist, as I said previously I am comfortable in the fact that I am not racist; I said what I said because I was genuinely worried that a section just for black people would be divisive, and what PatricksRum was saying at the beginning of this post, and on a previous one, sounded like no white, or other than black Bame community members would be welcomed, or even allowed. That did sound very divisive, and I was by no means the only other person here to think so. However the OP, and others have implied that that view is ridiculous, that we are all welcome, but we just mustn't speak, because if we are not black we have nothing of any interest to say, help, or add to Black MNetters, so that is fine, I am glad that you will have the section you want, and that it won't hinder in any way, any of us at MN, or indeed any and all human beings, from realising that when we are born we are all equal, and we should strive to stay so.
I can't believe you've come to a thread about black perspectives and written a life story.
Christ.