I'm Proud To Be An AMERICAN!
We were talking about tolerance and racism and Rosa Parks in Journalism today. Then we got onto the subject of how on test for the racial selection they only let you select one. And then I sat there and thought about what my form always looks like:
First of all, how does that encompass anyone?!?!? In America we pride ourselves on the diversity of our citizens yet there are obviously only four or five categories under which we all fall.
Next, why do I have to be white? No, it's not White-American, or Caucasion-American, I'm white. Well, I think that's stupid. I want to be called American. I like America. I live in America. I was born in America. I'm American. No, not White-American, not White. I AM AN AMERICAN. Don't get me wrong I love my heritage as does everyone else. But when they aren't going to give me the option to select all my different races, they should give me the option to be American. I pay American taxes, not White taxes. I don't exactly know why but just having to call myself white really ticks me off.
For exmple there's that country song that goes:
“I'm proud to be an American...”
Nope that's wrong. It needs to go I'm proud to be White.
I know skin-wise I'm white, but I thought a long time ago we stopped just looking at people's skin as a way of identifying them.
I don't know maybe I'm the only one who is bothered by this.
Any ways, ooooh, I got a progress report today from my Journalism teacher. My grade dropped! It is now a 99.7%.
Prozak [Be Like You]
Dexter Freebish
I'm gonna spend another night all by myself
Like a loser on the outside looking in
No one cares if I disappear and don't come back
Cause the only friends I have are in my head
And I know that I'm alive but I feel dead
I wanna be that guy that gets the girl and saves the world
Then everyone would wanna be like me, be like me
I wanna be that guy that's got it made gets overpaid
Then everyone would wanna be like me, be like me
Confidence and ego trips, I never took
You never know the places that I've been
Who is gonna sell me a miracle
Cause ever star I've wished on fades away
And my universe gets dimmer everyday
I wanna be that guy that gets the girl and saves the world
Then everyone would wanna be like me, be like me
I wanna be that guy that's got it made gets overpaid
Then everyone would wanna be like me, be like me
Who am I to blame
There's nothing I can change
Everything's the same
I wanna be that guy that gets the girl and saves the world
Then everyone would wanna be like me, be like me
I wanna be that guy that's got it made gets overpaid
Then everyone would wanna be like me, be like me
Random Word:
con-nip-tion: n. a fit of hysterical excitement or anger.