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Cultural Differences

I've said before: all the same colour - less trouble, we know, stiil other problems which could double; it's the good and bad syndrome, my irreverent brother, to have balance - you can't have one without the other. If you're a black driving in East London at night there, you may be really, unfairly stopped because of your colour, if you're a young black, stopped and searched for drugs, more often than not, no respect, they think you're mugs. The 'whites' can be more fortunate, enough for their own good, but ironicaaly, nothing's going to change for the better, period; now, those other cultural differences, not liking things not like us, part of life, some things accepted but colour worse than accent. We tolerate many things but often we think we're better than you, that's the trouble - God gave us no choice in what we have to do.

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