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Makes me time-travel back to my arrival to the USArmy Berlin Brigade in 1973, as part of our orientation we had mandatory Race Relations training. It was held in the same building that the Final Solution was decided, on the Wannsee in West Berlin. Eerie.

In the 2000's, I worked for my county Socialist Services as a program analyst. I took the job because it was to provide in home services for the elderly disabled. I figured it would have less scammers, and I only needed a job for seven years. It was a new state program and Mendocino was eager to get started. I was one of the first of five analysts to set up the regional committee to work out county "best practices" from what the legislature gave us. The "process" of government lefties love so much. After a few years there were about 20 Bay and northern counties on the regional committee. The state sent to one of our meetings three diverse gals for a diversity training. Their most egregious testimony amounted to white people looking at them funny. All my peers took their turns around the table saying all the appropriate things about the need for more understanding about the feelings of people of color; bla, bla, bla. As fate would have it, I was the last to speak. I took the opportunity to recognize how far our country has come in race relations since Dr. Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial. We don't have segregation anymore. Everyone who wants to, can go to college and succeed, as these three ladies here have done. You know, people look at me funny sometimes too. We have to let go of the past if we're to have the society you all claim you want us to have. I got a hearty round of applause from my peers. The next day I was called in by my supervisor. She told me that I was too valuable in the office and I would no longer be going to the monthly meeting of the analysts of my program. I asked her which of the training gals had called her; the Hispanic, the Asian, or the black? The shocked look on her face betrayed her lie, "No one called me!" Bummer. I used to love going to those meetings. They were down in the Bay Area. As I used to say to my sister analyst, "A day not here, is day worth living!"

Back in '92, my department required all white male police officers, the majority of the force, to attend diversity training, conducted by a contractor that looked like Stacey Abrams, and was just as abrasive. I was hosting in my home, as part of an exchange program, a member of Britain's SAS, the storied British military special forces outfit that was the template for our Delta Force. The lad insisted on coming with me to the training. After about an hour of hearing how we were the scourge of the known universe, the instructor started dropping the "redneck" word. My British friend raised his hand and very politely, in Oxford English, he begged the definition of "redneck." After her racist, stereotyped, off the cuff explanation, he reverted back to his typical Cockney English and replied, "Based on that definition, I'm a redneck, me daddy is a redneck, and so was me grandfather." The she became visibly angry but flummoxed in that she was hesitant to openly insult a member of an official foreign exchange program. Needless to say, me mate was inundated with beer from about 200 officers after the session was over. He was duty bound as a British military representative to accept. He did his duty admirably.

Love the stories from the above posters. #1, really? Race Relations training at Wannsee? That is astounding.

Unless the passage of time has diminished or affected my memory, yes, I spent 3 long boring days there. Per Google it was a school at the time, perhaps parts were rented out of it was another similar looking mansion. It was atypical waste of time as 19 and 20 yeer olds had their minds and opinions cemented by then. The army reinforced many of them.