Nightshade wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:36 pm
I'm certainly crucified enough. lol
I’m not really sure why they want to see pictures of you or your crack. I guess I must’ve missed some specific discussions about race or something. Discussing race is quite interesting and everyone thinks they have the answer.
I have 3 people I call “brother”: My actual older brother, his best friend, my oldest friend. This habit people have of calling everyone they smoked a joint with in high school “brother” is incredibly annoying to me. It doesn’t mean I don’t like you, I only call a few people that.
My older brothers best friend brother IS a brother, I’ve known him for 40 years. He’s a black man born in New York, grew up in Texas with Cherokee and (as he so eloquently puts it) “some Irish raped into my family somewhere along the way”. And the way he talks about race and immigration isn’t sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows AT ALL.
We have a huge Somali population up here and if you think African Americans and Somalis get along like some utopia holding hands coca-cola commercial you’d be WAY WRONG. There is huge animosity and culture clash between them for reasons I can’t understand other than what some of the players tell me: Calling each other “Animals” is not at all uncommon.
So, I guess what I’m saying is I don’t know what a photograph proves. If they are calling you a poser using the “I’m mixed race, I can say anything I want” blank check, or whatever. I dunno, half the time I think you’re just trying to get a reaction. My one black friend certainly doesn’t sound like some liberal arts college trust fund hippie cracka trying to speak for the downtrodden who can’t speak for themselves. He’s harsh - especially on illegal immigration - and Little House on the Prairie white girl that think she can tell you what black people go through because she screwed a black guy once. He got NO TIME for either.
There is definitely a difference between how we would like the world to be and the reality of daily life.
And here’s a picture of my Great American Ghud Hard Worker Cat and sandwich...