So You’ve Been Told You’re Racist…

I’m told I am a scary person to be around because people (read: whites) are terrified of saying something offensive to me. That’s understandable. I don’t like being offensive to people I like. I don’t understand why people who supposedly want to hang out with me are so terrified of being in my presence. I have never lashed out physically at anyone because they said something offensive. In fact, the majority of the time I’ll simply disagree with the statement. My usual response is, “Wow, that’s offensive.” followed by a brief explaination. Continue reading »

True colors.

Okay, so congratulations are in order to all those with common sense who helped us step further out of our past’s shadow of racism, oppression and shame. It was so empowering to see the diverse faces in the crowds of Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Washington last night on TV. And Obama’s shout-out to the gays right in his speech?

A new day has come.

(Enter: Debbie the Downer)

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Race or Sex: Which is the winning card?

We are no longer growing closer and closer to the 2008 Presidential Election by the month, week, day; we are growing closer by the hour, minute, second. It’s less than a week away now, and still we are debating and arguing over points that seem less than important to the whole picture.

So what, you ask, will make or break this election for either party? What could and probably will sway this election more than any other factor? No, it’s not that McCain will suddenly come out as a Muslim, or that Obama will admit that he’s actually a socialist - either way those two are arranged, they’re both false…

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A message to Imaginary America.

Okay, so everyone’s up in arms about this whole “Real America” thing, as they rightly should be. It’s awful that they’re calling racists who pretty much want this country run by a Christian theocracy the “real” Americans. I guess that makes the rest of us imaginary.

I know exactly what the Republican party is doing: inciting nationalism against members of their own nation, claiming those who disagree with their radical policies are anti-country, pointing fingers so no one looks at what they’re really saying. Reeeeal creative, John. We haven’t seen this move from any country, ever. Especially not Germany, or anything.

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A race about race.

If we thought this race was about race when it was Clinton vs. Obama, we hadn’t seen anything yet.

At this point, it’s got to be the “black” thing that keeps anyone voting for McCain (that, or the constant comparisons to terrorists…thanks, NY absentee ballots). I can’t see any other reason why normal, middle- and lower-class Americans refuse to vote for Obama.

It can’t be the “economy” thing, since Obama’s plan would give nearly all of the awful people in McCain’s crowds a tax cut. And McCain’s brilliant “spending freeze” for everything except defense is the grossest idea I’ve ever heard; the past eight years have been a spending freeze on everything but defense!

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Don’t Gimmie that Blacktalk, Young Lady!

Here is the scene:

I’m at work.  My two coworkers were heading out for lunch.  A customer was walking up to speak to me but he hadn’t reached me yet.  I turn to my coworker and say something to the effect of, “Where ya’ll headed at?”  It’s important to note that everyone in this situation is a Black person.  The customer reaches my window and promptly proceeds to let me have it.

“‘Where ya’ll headed at?’” he fusses, “I know your mother taught you better than that!  That nigger shit is why people don’t take Black people seriously!”  With that, he begins a mini tirade that includes the ways in which speaking in slang is making Martin Luther King want to spin in a circle and Malcolm X just bitchslapped an angel.  Continue reading »