bishes.
aghhhhh my mother is so angrifying.
tonight i was watching america's next top model (vh1's having a marathon. shut up) and she came in to sit down and not watch whatever daddy's watching. cool, whatev.
there was this one girl, tiffany, and she's got a very defeatist attitude and she's quite bitchy and rude. not normally a problem except for that she's black, which "proves" my mother's theory that intelligent, kind, non-caucasian people are very hard to come by.
my mother's also very hard on people that are about a hundred times more talented than she is. whatever. that's just annoying, not a really huge problem.
so it goes from me making intelligent comments to deedee to my mother saying things that are totally unjustifiable...
me: "she's not working in the light. the photo is going to be weird."
"she is selling that outfit so well."
"she should have laughed that off..."
my mother: "see? uneducated trash. what do you except? she's from the ghetto."
"she's so black when she talks."
"hmm, does she eliminate the black girl or the white girl?" (they had really obvious weaknesses as models that she could have commented on.)
what the hell is that? i was pretty sure she was the one raising me to be open-minded and unprejudiced, but she's the one with the "all asians value education above everything." "there are a lot of people who are just trash, and most of them are black." "she can't read well so she's just white trash." (ps your younger daughter can't read well.) "mexicans are too ignorant to know anything about american culture." and then she criticizes me when i say that we should be more strict about illegal immigration (it's a burden on our economy).
so where did i get my sense of giving people chances? i'm not even that extreme. i give everyone an equal chance; some ruin it faster than others ("yo, girl! whachoo lookin at? dont nobody teach you no mannas?" for example), and i'm not going to pretend i'm not as guarded around middle-class whites. that's just what i'm used to.
but i don't sit there and say something negative every two minutes (no exaggeration) for an hour tv program.
in the end i got so fed up with her i just said, "hey. wanna be a little positive?"
i dont remember how it got there but she was like "you dont understand, when i was growing up being black was an excuse to be handed things..." um, hello. now i'm growing up and being anything but white will get you into college like that. i think i understand.
arghhhh i just... she's always criticizing the closed-mindedness of new englanders, and she refuses to believe that she's just as close-minded.
RAHRAAHROAHRHARHARHHAGHRAHRHAGR.
tonight i was watching america's next top model (vh1's having a marathon. shut up) and she came in to sit down and not watch whatever daddy's watching. cool, whatev.
there was this one girl, tiffany, and she's got a very defeatist attitude and she's quite bitchy and rude. not normally a problem except for that she's black, which "proves" my mother's theory that intelligent, kind, non-caucasian people are very hard to come by.
my mother's also very hard on people that are about a hundred times more talented than she is. whatever. that's just annoying, not a really huge problem.
so it goes from me making intelligent comments to deedee to my mother saying things that are totally unjustifiable...
me: "she's not working in the light. the photo is going to be weird."
"she is selling that outfit so well."
"she should have laughed that off..."
my mother: "see? uneducated trash. what do you except? she's from the ghetto."
"she's so black when she talks."
"hmm, does she eliminate the black girl or the white girl?" (they had really obvious weaknesses as models that she could have commented on.)
what the hell is that? i was pretty sure she was the one raising me to be open-minded and unprejudiced, but she's the one with the "all asians value education above everything." "there are a lot of people who are just trash, and most of them are black." "she can't read well so she's just white trash." (ps your younger daughter can't read well.) "mexicans are too ignorant to know anything about american culture." and then she criticizes me when i say that we should be more strict about illegal immigration (it's a burden on our economy).
so where did i get my sense of giving people chances? i'm not even that extreme. i give everyone an equal chance; some ruin it faster than others ("yo, girl! whachoo lookin at? dont nobody teach you no mannas?" for example), and i'm not going to pretend i'm not as guarded around middle-class whites. that's just what i'm used to.
but i don't sit there and say something negative every two minutes (no exaggeration) for an hour tv program.
in the end i got so fed up with her i just said, "hey. wanna be a little positive?"
i dont remember how it got there but she was like "you dont understand, when i was growing up being black was an excuse to be handed things..." um, hello. now i'm growing up and being anything but white will get you into college like that. i think i understand.
arghhhh i just... she's always criticizing the closed-mindedness of new englanders, and she refuses to believe that she's just as close-minded.
RAHRAAHROAHRHARHARHHAGHRAHRHAGR.