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I experienced racism in Belize (just changed over from British Honduras) in the early '70s. Gave me a good feeling of what it was like. I was traveling in southern Mexico & the northern half of central america. At that time the country had a population of about 137K of which 3K were british soldiers and a few more were Lebonese. The rest were black. The guy I was traveling with & I went to 3 or 4 hotels before we found one that would rent a room to us. In restaurants, we waited a half an hour before getting a menu thrown on the table (guess they figured we weren't leaving) We also had people that came up to us on the street in Belise City and yelled, "get the F out of here" to our faces. The guy I was traveling with at the time didn't help things either. He was the typical "ugly american" type.
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Marv Evans
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