11.05.2008

idioteque

one of my uncles ran for a local position as a democrat and lost.

today he was told by one man something to the effect of, "It's no wonder you lost you goddamn democrat nigger lover."

how do you like that, O great age of reason and understanding?

my dad and i were talking the other night about how they were predicting (mostly in the south i think) that many white people were saying they were going to vote OBAMA but actually vote MCCAIN for racial reasons. basically my father thought that that was bullshit. i refuted and argued saying how real racism still is. and no of course it's not just white on black racism. it's everything including the opposite what was previously stated, but that i thought it was a just concern. went further into detail about it but he still didn't want to back down.

as of today, I won.
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4 comments:

Mike said...

racism will always exist as long as people feel like they are being wronged for no greater reason than people are douchebags, so they'll call it racism because it works a lot better in a court of law.

but yeah it still exists and it probably always will.

11:14 PM
erin said...

I think the younger generations are becoming more and more open-minded and accepting. But there's always gonna be that group that will never die out.

10:04 AM
Holland Chase said...

i know, it just amazes me that even my own father would be blind to this fact.

5:31 PM
erin said...

"I think you know the Eskimos have seventy different words for snow? We probably have seventy different kinds of bias, prejudice, racism, and discrimination, but it's not in our mind-set to be clear about it, so I think that we have sort of lousy language on the subject and that is a reflection of our unwillingness to deal with it honestly and to sort it out."
~From the "Fires in the Mirror" play I was telling you about. Kinda found it appropriate.

10:08 PM

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