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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8529588" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>I suspect it really depends on where you lived.</p><p></p><p>I got into D&D at an “Intro” session hosted in my middle school library in Aurora, Colorado. We were all nerds (Duh) and had experienced bullying of some kind,<em> but none of it was D&D related</em>. It may be because D&D wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, yet.</p><p></p><p>When I moved to Manhattan. Kansas a few years later, I found a bunch of other players and again- including Curly, my first other black gamer- we played a lot at school. I had another group I played with in my neighborhood. Just like in Colorado, nobody really picked on us because of gaming.</p><p></p><p>Gaming in Texas since the mid-1980s has been different, though. By the time I got here (as a HS freshman in a private Catholic school), the Satanic Panic was in full swing, and I had just discovered metal. Generally, among the kids, one was cool, one wasn’t; the parents were worried about both. Despite her misgivings, Mom didn’t <em><strong>do</strong></em> anything to interfere with m interests in either. Some of my relatives (visiting from out of town) would talk about them both as “not black“ or “satanic”. I saw my first Chick tracts.</p><p></p><p>Amusingly, the monks let me start an RPG club. The only pushback on <em>either</em> from faculty came from the art teacher who had become “born again“ mid-semester. But even that was minor. (We still talk to this day.)</p><p></p><p>I haven’t made a secret of my participation in the hobby, but also, I rarely bring it up. Occasionally I get the same old satanic pushback, almost always from mainline Protestants and Evangelicals. And that’s a big percentage of the local faith community,</p><p></p><p>I’ve only encountered Reason #5- overt racism from gamers- a few times,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8529588, member: 19675"] I suspect it really depends on where you lived. I got into D&D at an “Intro” session hosted in my middle school library in Aurora, Colorado. We were all nerds (Duh) and had experienced bullying of some kind,[I] but none of it was D&D related[/I]. It may be because D&D wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, yet. When I moved to Manhattan. Kansas a few years later, I found a bunch of other players and again- including Curly, my first other black gamer- we played a lot at school. I had another group I played with in my neighborhood. Just like in Colorado, nobody really picked on us because of gaming. Gaming in Texas since the mid-1980s has been different, though. By the time I got here (as a HS freshman in a private Catholic school), the Satanic Panic was in full swing, and I had just discovered metal. Generally, among the kids, one was cool, one wasn’t; the parents were worried about both. Despite her misgivings, Mom didn’t [I][B]do[/B][/I] anything to interfere with m interests in either. Some of my relatives (visiting from out of town) would talk about them both as “not black“ or “satanic”. I saw my first Chick tracts. Amusingly, the monks let me start an RPG club. The only pushback on [I]either[/I] from faculty came from the art teacher who had become “born again“ mid-semester. But even that was minor. (We still talk to this day.) I haven’t made a secret of my participation in the hobby, but also, I rarely bring it up. Occasionally I get the same old satanic pushback, almost always from mainline Protestants and Evangelicals. And that’s a big percentage of the local faith community, I’ve only encountered Reason #5- overt racism from gamers- a few times, [/QUOTE]
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