A mish-mash of stuff

January 26, 2007 in Uncategorized

1. Degrassi tonight! Ooooooooh!!!!!! Not going to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, but ooooooooooooooh! This was a good one.

2. Trading spouses tonight: Damn, Abasi was an ASSHOLE, but then Marguerite was a WAY bigger bitch in the end. DAYUM.

3. Spent $170 on groceries today, then came home and had a coronary over a $150 electric bill. Why? Those groceries most likely won’t last a month, but I got a whole month’s worth of TV and heat and internet all for $150. I suppose I shouldn’t complain. Too much, anyway.

4. I’m *still* rolling the God thing around in my head. I’m afraid I’m thinking about it too much and I’ll crap out a really bad post about it, someday, when I feel ready. I ought to just blast out a post about it like I do everything else. Eh. Whateva.

5. The race thing has been rolling around a lot in my head lately, too. The only thing I can come up with is that it’s only been about 40-50 years that black people have even been allowed to use the same BATHROOM as white people. We’ve come a long way, but we need to come so much further. When we were watching Trading Spouses last week, the dude on there said, “Who is the most oppressed race in America today?” Jim and I said at the exact same time, “Mexicans.” But it’s not just latino people that are being oppressed, check this shit out. I have to wonder if the guard would have been so suspicious if the dude had been white, or even black. And notice there’s not even a description of the “middle eastern man” in the article. I dunno, something sticks in my throat when I see all these things.

6. There is no six. This is a figment of your imagination.

2 Replies

  1. jeffreyhttp://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/

    January 27, 2007 at 7:42 am

    “There is no six”

    ha! does that mean that there is no seven or that seven simply exists in the state of six whilst being regarded as seven for its entire life span, creating an identity crisis wherein it then actually believes that it has become six, though still being seven, eventually brining about the collapse of our entire civilization, which is built on money that is dependent on numbers and their aforementioned identity? oh crap, the world is ending!

  2. rose

    January 29, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    I have to disagree about what race is most oppressed. White America is terrified of Black America, and despite the achieving equal bathroom status, there is little else equal. The reason I think there is a difference is that Mexicans chose to come here. I won’t get into the economics of Mexico and US corporate exploitation of the labor market, etc, but for a population that is as American as you or I, Blacks are for the most part born behind the 8 ball, and for most urban blacks in particular, there is no such thing as pulling yourselves up by the bootstrap. The schools spend their time more on physical safety then on education. The buildings are in poor condition, there is little money for materials. The drop out rate is high, and we all know what kind of career opportunities await highschool drop outs. Neighborhoods are unsafe, obesity levels are higher because kids can’t play outside, and neighborhood groceries are not exactly Whole Foods.
    I wish Bill and Melinda Gates would adopt a US Urban area,say Detroit, and pour their money into building a solid infrastructure-good , reliable daycare and health care, grants for small businesses, finding a way for young men to have hope so that gangs and the resulting violence are not so attractive. Then convince all these rappers who are glorifying money, violence and mysogeny that they are doing a disservice to themselves and the rest of America who more and more are coming to associate Blacks with gang bangers.

    I don’t disagree that Mexicans are exploited, but if you look at 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant cultures, for the most part they are better off than blacks whose lineage goes back much further in this country.

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