2008-11-05 
 

pondering race

I'm happy that certain people I've known in life will have a harder time hiding. The people who pretend to be color blind for the most part, but think nothing of whispering a racist comment to me because I happen to be a white man.

This sort of person has always bugged me more than the overt racist. The second I point out that their comment isn't fair, they say, "But some of my best friends are black!" This is usually followed by, "Besides I love Oprah!" (or Denzel or Will Smith or whomever else happens to be hip at the moment) I've never met the black friends of these folks, but then I don't usually get to know these folks very well after they start making those comments. Even if these friends of theirs did exist, it doesn't give them license to dismiss the rest of that racial subset. I don't have the right to go around saying that other women are weak and less intelligent than men just because I happen to be friends with one or two of them. Besides, my mother would run over my toes if I ever said anything like that.

Labels: dose of mikey, politics, rant

* posted by me at 9:27 PM

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