--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WOO HOO! This is very well stated. I deal with older white > people everyday. In my business I have invested what I consider > to be a large amount of money. My money(the money I was able to > raise and invest) allowed for things to able to be done, in order > to fund various projects. Yet there are people who feel that at > 51 I am a good boy and they have the right to take my funds > because I am too _______ to know what to do with them. Also I > would not be getting anything if it had not been for them. > Because BOYs dont have these opportunities without good white > uncles. > > I was ok with it till the guy yelled at me on the phone in a way > that let me understand that he really believed that shit.
It is probably impossible for someone who is white (like me) to identify with this level of ignorance and racism. I was the kid of an Air Force officer, and normally would have been living on the base there in Georgia, side by side with kids of black and white servicemen, but my mother had inherited some money from her father when he died, so she sprang for a house in the oh-so-white burbs. While it was a nice place for a kid to be able to grow up, the racism shocked the shit out of me even at the time (ages 10-14). We are talking about an era when every restaurant or service station had 4 restrooms -- two for white, two for colored, and a time when I was once thrown off of a bus as a kid because I wanted to sit in the back. I was a kid, and thought it would be more fun, but the driver literally stopped the bus and told me that this section was for "colored only," and that if I didn't move to the front to "my section," he'd throw me off. I didn't; he did. It left an impression, as did the neighbor's line about the toilet seats. But all of this was back in the late 1950s, and so much has changed on the surface that I had really begun to believe that a lot of the unreasoned, unintelligent hatred and condescension of white folks towards people whose skins are darker than theirs, *for no reason* but that their skins are darker than theirs, had largely gone away. So consider it a shock on my part as well that John McCain refused to shake hands with a black man during a Presidential debate. He *has* to have known how that would look, and his disdain for Obama and his sense of superiority to him is so strong that he did it anyway. That made me ashamed to be white. > --- On Wed, 10/8/08, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] It's official...there is 1 person as crazy as Judy and Raunchydog... > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 7:59 AM > > ...and with exactly the same tendency to wear > confirmation-bias-colored glasses: > > > Cindy McCain said today that she expects her husband to clear the > record at tonight's debate and let America know where he truly stands. > > McCain, who stopped to visit a half-dozen children at the Monroe > Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt today, said the > presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has "waged the dirtiest > campaign in American history," and her husband Sen. John McCain will > use tonight's debate to correct the distortions. > > > Well, from where I sit, McCain not only did > nothing to "correct the distortions," he spoke > the single phrase that will be remembered from > the debate, and in history about the campaign, > "That one," used to refer to Obama. > > I'm reminded of my next-door neighbor growing > up in Georgia, who had a separate bathroom for > her two black maids because (exact quote), "I > will never sit on the same toilet seat that has > been used by a nigger." > > The two maids had worked for her for several > years, but this woman refused to ever learn > their names. When she needed to address them > directly, it was always "Hey, you!" and when > she needed to tell her other equally-bigoted > neighbors which one was worse (which was often), > she literally referred to them as "This one" > and "That one." No shit. > > On the other hand, credit John McCain for > adding a new euphemism for "nigger" to the > English language. He couldn't have damaged > his campaign more if he had used the real > word. > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links >
