Weekly Championing 18 and A Question
This week (or "this installment", more like), I'm going to recommend a song by singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile. I've become recently obsessed. I mean, I've really enjoyed it over the past few weeks but in the last couple days I've been listening to it a hell of a lot. It's the song Hard Way Home off of her new album Bear Creek. It's wonderfully twangy and mountain-y and awesome. I love the last verse in particular.
So listen to it because it is awesome!
And as for my question:
Okay, so I went on a winery/vineyard tour with some friends today and before we were going off, one of the women wanted to stop and get something to eat before drinking a bunch of wine. Made total sense. Her favorite fast food place is Chick-Fil-A and I laid on the guilt about it sucking and she was like, "Fine. I won't go there. I'll go to Taco Bell." And she did. She and one of the other women got food.
But then one of them was like, "Why are we going to Taco Bell if Annie isn't eating?" There were two options: Taco Bell and Chick-Fil-A.
So I was like, "Um, I know I laid on the guilt, but it's not like I am forcing anyone to eat anywhere. And I don't know why you'd want to eat at an establishment that would kick me out of it."
I mean, if this place was known for being anti-black or anti-Semitic, who would actually go there? They wouldn't have been caught dead going there! And it wouldn't have been unreasonable for a black person (one of the people in the car was black, by the way) or a Jewish person to say, "Hey, this place kind of hates me. Do ya'll mind if we don't go there, even if I'm not eating, just because I don't want to feel like you support me being treated like a second class citizen?"
So . . . Was I unreasonable? The first woman who wanted to stop in the first place didn't put up a fuss, but the second did and I'm not sure if she was doing it in a joking way so I really didn't want to lash out and say something like, "So, bigotry's fine when it's just the gays and a decent chicken sandwich that we're talking about?"
Click to viewSo listen to it because it is awesome!
And as for my question:
Okay, so I went on a winery/vineyard tour with some friends today and before we were going off, one of the women wanted to stop and get something to eat before drinking a bunch of wine. Made total sense. Her favorite fast food place is Chick-Fil-A and I laid on the guilt about it sucking and she was like, "Fine. I won't go there. I'll go to Taco Bell." And she did. She and one of the other women got food.
But then one of them was like, "Why are we going to Taco Bell if Annie isn't eating?" There were two options: Taco Bell and Chick-Fil-A.
So I was like, "Um, I know I laid on the guilt, but it's not like I am forcing anyone to eat anywhere. And I don't know why you'd want to eat at an establishment that would kick me out of it."
I mean, if this place was known for being anti-black or anti-Semitic, who would actually go there? They wouldn't have been caught dead going there! And it wouldn't have been unreasonable for a black person (one of the people in the car was black, by the way) or a Jewish person to say, "Hey, this place kind of hates me. Do ya'll mind if we don't go there, even if I'm not eating, just because I don't want to feel like you support me being treated like a second class citizen?"
So . . . Was I unreasonable? The first woman who wanted to stop in the first place didn't put up a fuss, but the second did and I'm not sure if she was doing it in a joking way so I really didn't want to lash out and say something like, "So, bigotry's fine when it's just the gays and a decent chicken sandwich that we're talking about?"