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Daddysredhead -> RE: I Admit It I........ (2/19/2010 10:15:41 PM)
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I admit that people insult folks they don't even know, which is just stupid. I admit that I have a wonderful example of ignorance right here, about me, written to a dear friend of mine: "Such a racist cow...no surprise she is together with a black guy when she has the brain of a pea." I admit that this made me laugh hysterically when I read it. I admit that the idea of me being racist makes about as much sense as the person who wrote it. I admit that I am trying to figure out who I am racist towards, considering: I am German and Dutch on my mother's side, German and English/Irish on my father's side... I was married to an Asian man and have 2 beautiful interracial children... I've been with a black man for nearly 7 years... My best friend in college was a Russian Jew... My best friend when I was in elementary school was from India... My high school/college boyfriend was from Puerto Rico... I briefly dated a guy from Korea in college... The best man in my wedding was Arabic... My children's babysitter was from Afganistan... I have friends and relatives in Australia, England, Ireland, Germany, France, Canada, Pakistan and other places around the world... I try to learn even the smallest bit of the foreign languages that my friends also speak, just for fun... I speak three languages, though two of them imperfectly, and I am able to laugh at myself when I mix up the words and natives give me the *blink-blink* look because I have accidentally asked if cars are on the menu or some such silliness... and yet, I am supposedly racist. [8|] Make sense to you? Yeah, me neither. I admit that saying that I "don't understand" someone or that what they are saying is "getting lost in the translation" doesn't mean that I am criticizing someone's language skills. I admit that these are sayings used in the US to mean that "I don't understand because I'm not paying much attention to you." I admit that I'm still laughing that someone would call me racist, yet say "Such a racist cow...no surprise she is together with a black guy when she has the brain of a pea." Yeah... that's not a slam against black people at all, is it? To say that only someone with the brain the size of a pea would be with a black man? I admit that this person disgusts me in totality. [:'(] I admit that people should be careful who they write to because you never know who is close friends with the person you are slamming. I admit that I love my friends. I admit that I will cyber-swat anyone who insults good gals like Aqua. (ps - come to VA in May, will ya?) [:)] ~ Red ~
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