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Originally posted by LeeNoga
I do.
I am still fighting these same battles I fought many decades ago, its part of what has made me who I am today [generally speaking].
I am a minority that lives in the high visibility as a reminder my people are not second class citizens. I had to lie under oath so I could be allowed to enter the service as my duty to my country.
Society has allowed us to use racism, religion and lifestyle to judge many.
What people need to realize, is that they can push back one person at a time.
I am living proof that a person "different" than the norm, can co-exist amongst many in this webmaster industry.
Even if ya are the person folk like to love to hate, its all good :-)
Yes, I understand what you say, as I am still living amongst the prejudice.
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And unfortunately as long as there are stupid, narrow-minded or prejudice-blinded people out there, this will continue. However, as you exemplify, it IS possible to transcend the idiocy and prevail. Unfortunately a lot of people allow the prejudices they are viewed with to confine them, mentally, and thus they contribute to a neverending circle of repression. It's breaking down the barriers that self and society place on a person in the forms of social mores, prejudices, idealisms, that allows minorities to grow stronger. Nobody is an "impossible case" unless they allow themselves to be.