OMGWTFWHITEPEOPLE!!!

[stickykeys633]

UNCUT! And tell a friend, chile!

I... I don't even know what to say anymore, you know?

I rant, and my friends rant. I even write really crazy poetry and yet, none of it seems to sink through. Okay, I take that back, I think there's some learning happening, just evidently not as much as there needs to be at this stage in the game

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[laurent_atl]

I have a hard time understanding why white people would want to use the N word in the first place and argue about it with POC.

I can see why KKK types would enjoy using it, but they would not feel the need to argue about it with POC, since they actually agree that it is a hateful racist term.

But why would a white person who claims not to be racist get from using the N word is beyond my understanding.

[stickykeys633]

I always pull that out when people jump on the "WELL IF BLACK PEOPLE CAN SAY WHY CAN'T I?" train.

"Well... why would you want to?"

Then it clearly becomes an issue of, "You've told me not to do this, and NOW I MUST!", but no one wants to admit that.

[laurent_atl]

aren't human beings supposed to get over the 'if they tell me not to do it, i HAVE TO do it' phase around the age of 7?

[stickykeys633]

You would think so, but history has unfortunately shown many examples of arrested development in this country ;)

[justdropit]

Phew. None of those apply to me. Well, in the interest of full disclosure there was a brief time in 3rd grade when I wanted to be Jewish because it seemed seemed really exotic to me. Oh, and I also know the words to Kumbaya but that's not my fault because I learned it when I was a Girl Scout.
I don't know what to say other than that.

[justdropit]

And the angry looking avatar is not directed at you. It's just my default and I forgot to change it.

[stickykeys633]

Heh, no prob, and yeah, I think on the surface everyone should want to experience other cultures and what not. But there's a difference between being 9 and being a grown @ssed woman!

Ahem, is all. Hee, which I know you know.

[chreebomb]

Ooh now THAT is a rant! Pay attention, people!

[stickykeys633]

Hey baby! I've been reading you but just haven't had time to comment. Good to see you around!

[redcoast]

2. Man, everybody loves Oprah, the way you love your slightly-out-of touch mom who forwards those chain emails to you. That's really what I wanted to say.

8. If you grew up in Toronto/Austin/Portland (I know, right? WTF?)/Western Utopia where the sun shines everyday and everyone (of all colors, colors we don't even notice because WE DON'T SEE COLORS!)joins hands in the words of the old Afrikan hymn "Kumbaya", well, you're an idiot and have nothing to say about my situation, or the situations of any cultural minority in this country.

WTF? What happened? I'm kinda on the flip side of that, where it's presumed if you're Southern, you're racist, and if you're racist, you're Southern. Dude, even X-Men 2 did it, with their mutant/race analogy going on, by giving the evil general guy, who worked with the US military and had a base in Canada, a Southern accent. But seriously, what happened? Who did you get into a fight with?

[stickykeys633]

The Austin/Portland/Toronto thing is something I hear all the time that irks me to death. Where you live doesn't mean anything really as much as what you do while you're there.

And yeah, I'm definitely familiar with the Southern stereotype and the debunking and validation of it ;)

I will say though I wish I had saved the Wayne Brady page. She was so flippant and completely offputting. Like, you know people who are snarky vs people who think they know what it is and try to be it? That's what she was doing and it pissed me off so much how she completeely dismissed any other opinion that I had to write something. Then she dismissed me as being "angry" and that was enough of that.

[redcoast]

What I meant was, that's something I sometimes hear from ... well, white Yankees. "I can't be racist! I come from the right part of the country!"

[stickykeys633]

I know what you meant, I was just rambly and rushed, heh.

[xpashax]

I just watch the parts of the Sarah Silverman show that are funny, they're all in the commercials.

[stickykeys633]

Exactly! And that's what kills me about her, because she has the potential, but she sails on being "sweet Jewish girl next door with a foul mouth". Which, Lord love a duck is great for getting your foot in the door, but it's been years and there's nothing new.