Not conducive to dialogue

[sarahmichigan]

It's hard for me, too, to talk about race, especially with someone whose views appear to me (not saying they ARE, just that it's my perception) to be racist and/or un-informed. Instead of wanting to dialogue and figure out where that person is coming from, my first reaction is to want to scream:

SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!!!

I think this is because I don't want anyone to think that, because my skin color is the same color as the person with the icky-to-me views, that I think the same way that person does.