Comments | bkilby: Black History Month, Recalling The Most Awkward Conversation Of My Life

bkilby

Black History Month, Recalling The Most Awkward Conversation Of My Life

Feb 06, 2009 00:17

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xsr February 6 2009, 07:58:51 UTC

A "fun" fact is "Martin Luther King, Jr. was a huge Elvis fan." I wouldn't let the fact that she played the "but I'm black!" card get to you, stupid is color blind.

monocle February 6 2009, 18:21:31 UTC

Would the fact that he regularly cheated on his wife count as a fun fact?

bkilby February 7 2009, 19:09:12 UTC

That's the thing. Nobody's perfect. We don't have the recent lens of history to look back at everything.

As a fictional pioneer once said "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man and let history make its own judgments."

picard42 February 6 2009, 17:32:25 UTC

How could facts about his early life, even if boring, be racially insensitive? I mean, unless it said something like, "Famous [racial slur] MLK was born on..."

bkilby February 7 2009, 19:04:27 UTC

Oops, I never phrased it as racially insensitive.

That's a twenty hour day induced typo, my bad.

I phrased it to her as insensitive to his legacy and memory.

Look on the bright side unit335 February 6 2009, 22:34:52 UTC

Look on the bright side, Brian. Your story is so awkward and horrible it made me laugh my ass off. Even though I almost dropped my coffee in the apoplectic seizure that was my laughter, I didn't. And that can be no small thing.