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   From: zeborah@gmail.com   
      
    wrote:   
      
   > James A. Donald:   
   > > > Most of it seems to be, like the blog "stuff white people like"   
   > > > affectionate ridicule.  If someone actually wanted to be nasty to   
   > > > blacks, he would surely focus on aspects of the stereotype more   
   > > > hurtful than watermelons.   
   >   
   > "Suzanne Blom"   
   > > I think this is the kind of thing that can't be "affectionate" to the   
   > > intended victim.  It has too many hurtful associations.   
   >   
   > Do white people have thicker skins than black people?   
      
   White people (on the whole) haven't had so much sandpaper applied to our   
   skins over the course of our lifetimes as black people (on the whole)   
   have.   
      
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