Right now my Mother isn't talking to her siblings and is barely talking to her Mother because of their racism...against blacks. My sister dates black men, exclusively....cool....but my grandmother and aunt and uncle and cousins thinks she's betraying her race. Anyway...yea Mom. I am glad she was able grow beyond her upbringing.
Then in the next breath after she rants about her family, she begins to complain that all the foreigners in D.C. who "don't bother to learn or speak English" makes her feel that she's living in a foreign country (and she doesn't mean it in the nice way either). She's convinced that the nice Muslim family down the hall are terrorists, that the Hispanics in that other neighborhood are driving down the housing prices (which you would think she would be happy about since D.C. housing is over-inflated anyway), and don't get her started on the Asians. Why can't every one just speak English!!!
I have to hear this kind of shit daily. It drives me nuts. She thinks her family is so terrible and rascist, but she denies it in her own personal feelings.
I am not sure how it follows that she raised me. Somehow I was brought up not to judge people based on race, but on individual action. Sure it's hard to keep to the creed, because it is human nature to judge somewhat. Yeah, I admit if I see a guy dressed in gang colors and clothes, I will cross the street and my heart races. But still I try to not to lay any judgments down. And I pray that I won't turn into my Mom.
Right now my Mother isn't talking to her siblings and is barely talking to her Mother because of their racism...against blacks. My sister dates black men, exclusively....cool....but my grandmother and aunt and uncle and cousins thinks she's betraying her race. Anyway...yea Mom. I am glad she was able grow beyond her upbringing.
Then in the next breath after she rants about her family, she begins to complain that all the foreigners in D.C. who "don't bother to learn or speak English" makes her feel that she's living in a foreign country (and she doesn't mean it in the nice way either). She's convinced that the nice Muslim family down the hall are terrorists, that the Hispanics in that other neighborhood are driving down the housing prices (which you would think she would be happy about since D.C. housing is over-inflated anyway), and don't get her started on the Asians. Why can't every one just speak English!!!
I have to hear this kind of shit daily. It drives me nuts. She thinks her family is so terrible and rascist, but she denies it in her own personal feelings.
I am not sure how it follows that she raised me. Somehow I was brought up not to judge people based on race, but on individual action. Sure it's hard to keep to the creed, because it is human nature to judge somewhat. Yeah, I admit if I see a guy dressed in gang colors and clothes, I will cross the street and my heart races. But still I try to not to lay any judgments down. And I pray that I won't turn into my Mom.
Yeah I've kinda ignored Vox these past months. Phisto joined so I am back! with a Meme:
Rules: Go to Wikipedia and enter in your birthdate--not the year though. List 3 events, two births, one death, and one holiday from that day.
Event 1: 1259 - Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels
Event 2: 1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
Event 3: 1992 - Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia, east Africa.
Birth 1:1973 - Tyra Banks, American supermodel
Birth 2: 1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)
Death: 1993 - Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (b. 1940)
Holiday: International Hug Day
Extra points if you know my Birth Date
What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Chocolate and all variations upon that theme. Although--I nice hand made hazelnut goes down wonderfully. Oh and Tin Roof with CHOCOLATE covered peanuts.
