01-26-2004, 01:22 PM
Devkyu Wrote:All this racism shit is starting to piss me off. hell, back in my catholic school (I'm not catholic, but it was safer than any other school around here) there was three black kids in the entire school. and when the rest of the school got frozen ice pops as a treat, they got taken off to the side and got giant chocolate chip ice cream bars. so basically being a "minority" gives you special privlidges.
This sounds like the kind of story that my redneck friend used to rattle off. "Oh yeah, there's this guy at work that I know that got fired from his job because a negro applied for it! He told me all about it! Damn affirmative action! Man, it ain't fair!"
That's bullshit, and it never happened. As far as this ice cream incident goes, well, I don't believe that that happened either. Or maybe it did happen, but you don't sound like you know the half of it. Do you really think that your teacher gave them ice cream because they were black? Do you realize how insane that sounds?
This neo-conservative dismissal of the reality of racisim and classism in our society, and the growing belief in "might makes right," is really freaky. Do you really feel threatened and angry because you heard somewhere that your town couldn't put up a crucifix in the square or because some kids got ice cream and you didn't?