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it is an issue-- as a beige person bound to have brown children, it means something to me, you understand? i am not a the descendent of slaves and if i am they are mixed in my gene pool, but culturally i'm not. still i have to face stupid racism and bigotry every day-- things that may be invisible to you. my wife is one of the few survivors of the native american genocide-- let me ask her when she comes home if gestures of this sort mean anything to her-- i know her well and i'm sure her answer is going to be yes. go and ask some brown people around-- sure a lot are going to say it's not good enough, but few are going to say it's the same as nothing. it's not the same as nothing. it means something. it does. the reason you can't see it is because it doesn't speak to you.