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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Apropos of this, we were recently at a dinner that consisted of roasted chicken, Brussels sprouts and some kind of potato side dish -- I openly referred to it as "Protestant Food". The wife of a good friend, who is American but both of her parents are 100% Sicilian, called it "White People Food" and explained that she doesn't consider Italians, and especially Sicilians, to be white.
So you are white to TM but not-white to Buffy in Palm Beach.
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Just so. I can't remember the movie, but there's a scene where a black guy and a Puerto Rican woman are negotiating something or other (hostage payoff? something criminal - natch) with a white guy in middle America. The black guy helpfully points out to the PR girl that, "Here, you're black,too."
Unlike in NYC (I think I've told this story before), where I overheard one gal inform her friend, "I ain't black, I'm Puerto Rican -- it ain't the same thing."
