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Re: Bump wisdom re: Trayvon Martin
Yeah, I don't think I can go back. Her blood pressure is up, hell, mine has spiked. Who knew that stupid could cause such a ruckus.
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This post (page 2) wasn't Trayvon related, but I found it hilarious. She hates how Americans are lazy, unethical and entitled. . . and she pulls the pregnancy card at work because she hates her job, doesn't want to do the work, and wants to screw them over. LOL.
I have a very harsh opinion of my fellow Americans. Our mainstream culture drives me crazy. Do I think there is one society that is all around better? Not necessarily. But I do think that in our melting pot culture, all the worst aspects of those societies are represented. Every day I am confronted with ways our society is lazy, unethical, entitled, unhealthy, and narrow minded. I do not think I'm perfect, but the older I get (and the closer I get to becoming a parent) the more I realize what needs to change. I find myself worrying about why we decided to bring a child into this culture and how we will handle raising our baby.
I don't think you should be allowed to smoke outside the hospital.
I play the pregnancy card at work. I hate my job, and the only reason I haven't quit yet is because it would really screw them over right now. So I am only doing what is asked of me (compared to taking any initiative) because [insert pregnancy related excuse here], but really I just don't care. Only about six more weeks. This is probably some way I am a lazy or entitled dumb American too, and hopefully I will never be in this situation again.
I am hispanic and my husband is black. I am sure hispanics can't be racist to blacks, it's just common sense, duh.
I could not respond, I just dont have it in me today.
YES.
And the whole, "Oh, here's another black guy I think is hot."
And these weren't even the people spewing racist shiit.
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This makes me think of the YouTube video "Sh!t white girls say to black girls"
Zuma Zoom
WHAT? How on earth can you confuse Ice Cube with the delectible LL? Cube's attractive, but he ain't in LL's leauge. Probably b/c I can't forget that jeri curl he used to sport.
Tara really, really, really thinks I'm a biitch. She took the discussion to GP, where she (again) got her ass handed to her. And one of my MLers gave me a heads up
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http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/64692744.aspx
I mix people up all the time. I have a terrible memory for names. Even the Jesse James thing, I was thinking, um, that's not right. I know it's not right. I just can't place him or figure out the right name.
But, b/c I have a need to be right all the time, I'd for damn sure google before posting, just to make sure. I have to do that a lot with names.
I hate people like that Tara chick so much more than I hate blatant racists. At least the blatant ones are somewhat easily marginalized and avoided (well at least for this white girl).
She's sure a smart one though...
As for the originally posted link in this thread, there are apparently three people in that thread in which I've had big blowouts with. Two of them from knot days. Like stupid petty b.s. that I won't even scratch the surface to save you the wasted time reading it.
Honestly thought it was all said and done, but clearly not. The trollish people are still trolls, through and through.
Zuma Zoom
People who hold an internet grudge for that long over something petty are crazycakes.
That thread is the gift that keeps on giving. I want to know what the beef is that all of these people have with msmery and wtf it has to do with Mauritius!
I can't shake my head and roll my eyes hard enough. One of them is pregnant, and I don't have anything against her, and was happy for her. She didn't respond to my posts. I hope there still isn't animosity. It's been since like 2008, maybe 2007. Seriously.
The one that called me S'mores, who has a new name from her original one, I was just like, wtmf? Pleading for me not to have kids? I could have responded worse than I did, but then I wouldn't want to risk her creating a fake AE to ruin my business again. Insanity.
Also, I really did love your response dev, in the newer thread.
Zuma Zoom
This is exactly what is going on with the comments directed towards me at the end of the thread. Well, one of the posters is a regular on that BMB, and I know her from TK. 2 are her friends, and the 3rd is normally fine, but somewhat desperate to be popular among whoever "needs" her at the time. I was kind of surprised by her participation, but on the hand, not really... They all post on Snarky Brides. You know, the new SB, not the old SB.
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LOL, someone once said in a thread (I have no idea what it was about) that they had never heard of Mauritius. I made a comment (stupid word vomit - imagine that, coming from me) that I wouldn't admit to not knowing about the existance of a country on the internet. Then got smacked down for being hoity-toity because OMG, people don't know everything and how else will they learn? But really, I'd personally just google, because my point was that I'd be embarassed to admit something like that. Mostly I'd just assume everyone else knew and I'd be making myself look dumb, KWIM? Not my finest hour and it randomly gets thrown back at me.
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If someone like that thinks you're a biitch, you're probably doing something right.
That is fwckings ridiculous. Stupidity abounds.
Oh, and the new Snarky Brides occassionally tries to have political and intellectual discussions and most people are woefully misinformed. It's a big reason I started posting here - I couldn't find the kind of current event discussions I wanted because I kept having to explain to people things like, "Socialism is an economic system. Democracy is a political system. They can exist in harmony." So whatevs, I'm an elitist a$$hole.
Oh! My point was that StephJ in that thread has a husband who is biracial. She therefore knows everything about living in a biracial world and/or what it is like to be black. I once had a discussion about how Obama, while, yes, technically biracial, is percieved to be a "black man" because race is a societal construct more than a physical construct. Which Obama himself has said - since society has viewed him as black, he considers himself "black." But, you know, her husband feels equally black and white and is comfortable with white people, so anecdotes FTW! Basically she, BlueEyed and Maratea have completely different political beliefs than I do and that's all they see me as - someone whose beliefs they can't comprehend.
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My favorite part is how she says she would go BSC on me, and then when I show up, she's super quiet about that part.
Maybe this is flammable but oftentimes, in my experience, is white folks who are married to people of other ethnicities who are the most illogical about race issues.
FWIW, I feel perfectly comfortable with whites and blacks for the most part but that doesn't mean there isn't racism and systemic racism at that in this world.
To add onto my previous thoughts about this, I guess I'm annoyed that people aren't linking this case with other issues of systemic racism, especially in the justice system. If a man like George Zimmerman who apparently wasn't even an overt racist, sees a dangerous threat in a harmless kid like Trayvon Martin than what are cops, judges, lawyers, and jurys seeing when they look at black suspects?
But I'm sure most people don't give any thought to the fact that blacks make up 12% of the general population but upwards of 30% of the prison population. Or they just think we commit more of the crimes.
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