Racism Rears Its Badly Dressed Head (again!)

This actually happened back in 2005 when I first started My Space, but I forgot to post it here...seems like something quite a few folks need to think about!

Here's the one downside to My Space...watching totally normally people go completely to the mental zoo just because they're connected to you online and you can't see them in person.

So one of these goofy kids (that only picked my profile AFTER I changed my pic from the maroon coat one to this one) has the nerve to ask me why a "blk" woman as fine as me is wasting her time on a white guy! Okay, first of all, you have to go check out young Jason's profile (not the one I still have on my friends' list, but the one kid from Ohio). How does any kid dressed like Tupac the Musical have ANY right to tell me what is and what isn't a waste of my time??? Here was my reply:

Oh, honey...I hate to ask you, but who do you think you ARE??? :-)

Have you any idea how insulting this question is? How would you feel if some white guy asked the girls you've got listed as friends the same question? Is their association with you a waste of THEIR fine whiteness or something?

You post some pic lookin' like Thug Lite, then pop in and tell me how good I look, THEN you want to tell me how I'm wasting MY life??? Seems to me I read in YOUR profile that you HAD no racial preference...plus, the only black girl on your profile IS me, so what's the deal? It's obvious from your pic that you aren't looking for much more than a warm wet hole, so why does it matter to you where I get my real love from?

I really had hoped for a little better from you and was giving you a chance to show you were a young brother with a mind, but I guess I should have known you had a shallow streak when you added me to your friends list because I was "fine". What my husband and I have had for the past 9 years is something beautiful that I don't expect you could understand, despite your claims to be educated in your profile. Has it occured to you that that kind of "playa" talk is EXACTLY what's turning young men like yourself into soon to be lonely OLD men? There's not a black woman in the world that'll put up with that kinda talk...I mean, does your OWN mother appreciate hearing that's she's fine and that sort of thing?

Furthermore, it's a LOVE thing that he and I have, not a lust thing. I didn't know WHAT he looked liked when we first began talking and I'm glad I didn't now. I would have missed one helluva a man (in more ways than one, playa) if I had gone on mere looks.

In this day and age, you need to ask yourself are you really concerned about racial integrity, or are you just playing the same game that old men of all colors seem to play...the "they can't fuck OUR women, but we can fuck THEIRS" game. Neither one makes you look too bright, just bigoted.

Take me off your friends list, hon...I gotta play deeper than looks, okay?

D.

Now, Kevin thought this was pretty funny, 'cause he knew I was going to give this boy an earful (plus for him, the comment was too stupid to even take notice, like someone calling you Lucy from across the room in a really mean voice), but I'm not sure which is sadder, the fact that the poor kid thinks I'm somehow diluting our race or the fact that there's a LOT of guys who think the same thing. They can't do OUR women! Now, I'll hit any skins that run by, but those OTHER guys...THEY can only do their OWN race. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Forgive me, but I'm blown away by what passes for depth on these sites, I swear. Does everyone come to these sites to hide who they really are or to make themselves feel better than everyone else? It's like high school all over again!

Political Chain Mail???

So I recently got this as one of those chain mail things:

A lady wrote the best letter in the editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.

Her point:

Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.

Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.
Let's say I break into your ho use.
Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.
But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors.
I've done all the things you don't like to do.
I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).
According to the protesters:


You are Required to let me stay in your house
You are Required to add me to your family's insurance plan
You are Required to Educate my kids
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me and to my family
(my husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself.

I'm a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house.

And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! so you can communicate with me.

Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America ...if you agree, pass it on (in English). Share it if you see the value of it.
If not blow it off......... along with your future Social Security funds, and a lot of other things


This is the kind of stuff that just makes me sad. Americans really have no clue sometimes. We just think everything is just ours and we have no sense of responsibility to anyone but ourselves (and not even always ourselves…how well do we take care of those suffering in THIS country?). We think of ourselves as decent God fearing Christians and then we say stuff like this, forgetting that God did NOT just create us, he created a whole world of people around us that he loves just as much.

Rants like these are basically the pot calling the kettle black. You gotta remember, at some point, we ALL broke into this particular house, which originally belonged to Native Americans (with the exception of Africans, who basically got dragged along for the break-in and told to stay put!) :-) If we go by this editorial, then what we've done is broken in to the front room of the house, then slowly but surely moved into all parts of the house, forcing the owners into the basement. We slowly killed off most of the members of the owners family and got upset when they fought back, then rewrote the rules to exclude others from breaking in, too. We took ALL the benefits and all the opportunities and didn't leave the owners anything but our leftovers. Sound fair? I think if we were willing to essentially recreate the rules for our ancestors, then we have no choice but to do the same for our children. Otherwise, we need to go all the way back and correct the original problem and ALL go home to whatever country of origin we had and let the Native Americans deal with how their Mexican neighbors react.

Plus, it's always amazing to me that we're willing to help people in other countries escape starvation and tyranny (heck, we'll fight for them and bring them food free of charge and EVERYTHING), but we're not willing to let people right next door come over and actually WORK for the same benefit. If we're going to play pick and choose, why not pick and choose to the greater benefit?

By the way, a recent news article mentioned that the KKK was getting all new membership because of people who agreed with this sort of stuff (http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/03/12/daily25.html?from_rss=1)

Always nice to hear that evil’s benefiting from our natural greed and stupidity…

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