tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post6707857468198268598..comments2023-10-22T04:42:10.127-06:00Comments on What Happened to the Subtitles?: "But It's 2007!"more cowbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867825812404503048noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-61736291897308348392007-10-03T08:23:00.000-06:002007-10-03T08:23:00.000-06:00Cowbell: Seriously? Get hooked into some Organizat...Cowbell: Seriously? Get hooked into some Organization Development people in the greater Seattle area and get a little advice on how to market yourself. It can be done, and once you've got a steady client base with good word of mouth, you'll be making enough to pay for a health plan and sock 10% into a non-taxable IRA for your later life. Seriously. You would ROCK at this. If I ever do get my ass to Seattle, the two of us are going into business together.Red7Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10374428870925284956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-91485085127527741202007-10-01T13:05:00.000-06:002007-10-01T13:05:00.000-06:00Red: If I could find someone to pay me to do it -...Red: If I could find someone to pay me to do it -- with health/retirement, I'd be on it in a minute. <br><br>RG: After reading what you did to those homophobe dudes, I'd love to hold your purse. And step well back. <br><br>Monica: Yes! See? People believe it's rare, or that they're "isolated incidents", but you talk to any person of color, and this shit comes up. And most folks have lots of stories, not just one or two. <br><br>I hope you do write about it, I'd love to hear about your experiences. <br><br>That thing your English teacher said, on the dialect thing? AAGH! <br><br>Craig: The thing is, Bill can spout things that are so ignorant it's laughable ... except that there people out there who actually see sense in his insanity.<br><br>Mouse: Thanks!more cowbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04353267905923574347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-57629622236918372792007-10-01T11:59:00.000-06:002007-10-01T11:59:00.000-06:00wonderful post...again....wonderful post...again....Citymousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04491021367590323514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-55515852369499080392007-10-01T11:53:00.000-06:002007-10-01T11:53:00.000-06:00I saw that news story about Bill O'Reilly'...I saw that news story about Bill O'Reilly's enlightened restaurant review. Yeah, WTF, indeed? He should be hanging out at the unemployment office with Imus, don't you think?<br><br>As far as High School teachers go, they can be just as ignorant as the next guy. <br><br>Hope your pants made it back home OK...Craig Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411024383213082193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-88298020267518818462007-10-01T11:17:00.000-06:002007-10-01T11:17:00.000-06:00this entire post is reminiscent of my first year o...this entire post is reminiscent of my first year of high school. "your last name is french... huh?" <br><br>"monica, how would you pronounce the word on the board... no, how would you REALLY pronounce it?" that was was in honors english, during a section on dialect. <br><br>"we believe your behavior problems are a result of your honors classes being too difficult." i got As very easliy but was "bad" because I was in a catholic girls school full of intellectually inferior racists. i fucked with them because it was fun and i COULD... not because my easy fucking classes were hard. <br><br>oh man, in 2nd grade we had a teacher who actually instructed kids to "turn and look" at students who were about to be singled out on some old uncomfortable shit. OK, I have at this moment decided to make a seperate blog about some of this shit. I have way too much to say.<br><br>until tomorrow.Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508987701142070285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-19939698803379100332007-10-01T07:44:00.000-06:002007-10-01T07:44:00.000-06:00Cowbell honey, you need to hold my purse while I m...Cowbell honey, you need to hold my purse while I mess those people up. Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264363264956622352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-55590376471078926772007-09-30T16:34:00.000-06:002007-09-30T16:34:00.000-06:00Kamrin: yes, I think the media plays a part, and ...Kamrin: yes, I think the media plays a part, and the thing is that white people do make the news in negative ways, but they are seen as bad <i>individuals</i>, so it doesn't have the result of reflecting on white people as a whole. <br><br>TW: Good on you - I'd have loved for the young lady I mentioned to be able to see that. As for your comment on teaching the kids to defer to adults, be respectful, etc -- I have started to actively teach my son that if he is called to the office or disciplined, call me -- before he hit puberty, his attitude was "please, I already got in trouble once, I'm not telling my mom too!" But the past year or two, he unfortunately has learned that things are not always equal. Sometimes it's normal kid stuff, but other times ... there's something else at play. Now he calls.<br><br>Evil-G: Yeah, it makes me mad. But if I go off on them, then I play into those stereotypes of how "those families" are, not to mention it only reinforces ignorant people's beliefs. So I have to be strategic, and do the diplomatic "see how reasonable I am, please work with me" through gritted teeth. <br><br>WM: Szia! Exactly.<br><br>Rosemary: the thing is, my kids (so far) have been at the easier end of the spectrum. Compared so some situations that are going on <i>right now</i> to some of my friends' and colleagues' kids, this is easy stuff. Like the thing in my son's class? Yes, it happened, yes he was the only one in there, but guess what, he's IN those IB classes. Largely because his mom knows how to work the system, has the resources and language skills to do so, and because it has been my experience and expectation the school WILL hear me and WILL take me seriously. What about the parents who don't have those things? I'd be foolish to think that my being white has not played a part in my kids' experiences (both advantages and disadvantages, but that's another post). What my friends kids/families are going through ... much worse than my stuff. Much worse. That says something, too. <br><br>Good to hear your grandbaby is strong and sassy -- she'll need it.more cowbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867825812404503048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-64164861678178788942007-09-30T13:33:00.000-06:002007-09-30T13:33:00.000-06:00I am Italian, my children...all 3 of them...have M...I am Italian, my children...all 3 of them...have Mexican American fathers. I need to say their fathers were assholes in general and their ethnicity has nothing to do with that....My kids were raised in a mixed environment and thankfully they never had to suffer what the world gives children today. I can't imagine having to go thru what you are. I would probably have to do something that would land me in prison as opposed to just jail in order to make it right. My son married a Japanese girl...so far my granddaughter Sachiko has only been asked about her "weird" name and she is sassy enough to have told the kid he was the weird one. She is 5.rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300107116527320425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-32358676872546362192007-09-30T07:48:00.000-06:002007-09-30T07:48:00.000-06:00Welcome to the twenty-first century. Please faste...Welcome to the twenty-first century. Please fasten your seatbelts. <br><br>Seriously, though - we've talked about this before - the fact that it's 2007 doesn't make a lick of difference in this place, hmm? I hardly know why people even say it. As if it were RELEVANT.The Witty Mulattohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714368344885684793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-40084676772293475382007-09-30T05:32:00.000-06:002007-09-30T05:32:00.000-06:00Aaaargh! Make it stop! I want to get on a plane an...Aaaargh! Make it stop! I want to get on a plane and just go to your school and bitch slap these people. There are just not enough swear words in the English language.<br><br>I have to go now. I am so seriously loosing my shit. I'll try and comment more later when I can type without recourse to the top row of keys.evilganomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04867509470546509687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-59969488076583068182007-09-29T23:25:00.000-06:002007-09-29T23:25:00.000-06:00I would like to go up to each of those individuals...I would like to go up to each of those individuals and slap them upside the head; maybe knock a little sense into them....urgh.<br><br>I had a college professor insisting that I must be 3rd or 4th generation because a)I did not speak with an accent, b)I was not "dark" enough, and c)My first name is not Maria. Until I got so pissed off at her that I started swearing, yes, at a college professor, in Spanish as to what the chosen profession of her mother must be, did she realize that maybe she had erred a bit on the generalizations she relied on. The class, you see, was intended for immigrants/1st generation of immigrants. She allowed me in the class, though I don't think she ever apologized, now that I think about it, maybe she was waiting for me to apologize to her.<br><br>When I hear about this kind of stuff happening, especially to kids, my blood boils. We raise kids to defer to the adults and not get into trouble for, say, defending themselves or proving an adult/teacher wrong, and they get slammed and urgh again, what lessons are they learning?!? It's like that whole, "No good deed goes unpunished," deal.Tactless Wonderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17883329045061960257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331618108385488261.post-35980475600771937852007-09-29T21:58:00.000-06:002007-09-29T21:58:00.000-06:00I am shaking my head, feeling the truth of your wo...I am shaking my head, feeling the truth of your words. I can only hope that I can raise my kids to be truly open-hearted. It is going to be hard though, because all the news shows is black folks making bad choices,a white person has to screw up pretty bad to make the news, black folks, not so much.Kamrinhttp://kamrinskarma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com