August 1, 2008


Treat them like they took your wallet

How to Tell People They Sound Racist:

Just so. It’s hard to remember, though, when you just want to lay somebody out.

From Jay Smooth’s Ill Doctrine via Laughing Squid, via our own Elizabeth Perry.

posted by India in advice, how to, race, tips and tricks, video, wisdom 

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4 Responses to “Treat them like they took your wallet”

  1. India on August 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am

    The most spectacular example of this I’ve personally witnessed was at a party where a friend and I were chatting with another friend’s new boyfriend. He was a bartender at a German-themed bar in the East Village and had tended bar in some city in Germany for a while, too. My friend asked him, “Was there a lot of crime there?” and he replied, “No, there were hardly any black people at all.”

    No shit.

    We removed ourselves from his presence and informed the friend who was dating this creature, and she then went to him and said something like, “So, I hear you’re a racist.” For the rest of the night he was aggressively and unrepentantly denying it—some of my best friends are black, anybody could tell you I’m not racist, etc.

    But what he said was undeniable.

  2. Andrew Simone on August 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Wow.

  3. Deron Bauman on August 1st, 2008 at 11:43 am

    ditto.

  4. Deron Bauman on August 1st, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    oh.

    this reminds me of the story when a couple years out of high school I was home for spring break and got a call my brother had gotten busted wearing shorts to school so I ran up there with pants for him.

    walking through the halls to the office a teacher I recognized from my time at the school was walking with a group of students toward me and as he passed turned to me and said, “Faggot”.

    I had been involved in a before school student group that met with the superintendent so I called to set up an appointment to let him know the kind of culture he was supporting in his school system.

    He wanted me to tell him the name of the teacher. I told him that wasn’t my point.

    Anyway, I also mentioned that I was dispirited to see so many teachers and administrators standing in the halls with walkie talkies as if the school had become a prison system.

    That’s when he informed me “a lot of blacks had moved into the school system…. did I have anything else?”

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