Once You Go Black.... (and other weekend antics)
This was President's weekend, and so I didn't have to work yesterday. This weekend was simply wonderful, wonderful because I got everything pressing done that I needed to do and even had time for some idleness, to read and watch Olympic skating simply because I wanted to, not because I had to. I got a good deal of writing done too, in finishing the
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No...but the way I look at it is why ask such a question, knowing that (obviously) I could not possibly possess an answer? It was more or less a rhetorical question, which eliminates (to me) actually gaining some knowledge from asking it. (Like if he'd asked: "Did Timbucktu change owners?" I might have known the answer to that, and that seems a question that is asked for the purpose of gaining information.)
But since there is no such thing as a "black restaurant" then there's no way for me to answer whether or not Timbucktu has "become" one...which leads me to then ask, "Why ask such a question?"
To me, it says that he noticed and thought it worth bringing up multiple times. Now that's not something that you mention, imho, unless you're bothered by it. I'm interested to see the reaction I get the next time I suggest that we go there.
Is it racist to simply notice such things though? Some would say yes. :-/
I wouldn't say no. If you walked into a room and everyone was wearing purple but you, you'd notice. When I (stupidly! *facepalm*) wanted to see The Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Bobby took me, there were four men in the room...but he wasn't sexist for noticing that he was an obvious minority.
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