Logic...it's a tricky thing. What makes TOTAL sense to one person may seem completely unhinged to others. Most of my friends have heard this story before. It happened the year we started the program. One of our few female students at the time, Satin, had been sent to the front office for some kind of problem. I happened to be sitting in the isolation room with several other students during my duty time. She came storming into the office, and this is the conversation that ensued.
Satin (yelling at our security guy, Silas): I HATE THESE MOTHER @#$%IN STUPID-!@@ WHITE B*#$&ES!
Me (leaning out the door and speaking her to her down the hallway): Ah, excuse me Miss Satin, I HOPE, you are not talking about me! Do you want to rephrase that?
Satin: Oh, I wasn't talkin' about you Miss G. You're not white, you're biracial*.
Me: Oh, really?!
Silas: Ah, did you know that you were part black?
Me: Honey, last I checked, both my parents were still white, but I better make a phone call to see if anything has changed.
*I have been called white, pink, and yellow, depending on how they feel about me at the moment. If they like me, I'm biracial. If they hate me, I'm white. Sadly, they have had so many negative experiences with people who are white, they can't bear to recognize that not ALL white people are evil and are racist....so they classify me as anything but white to fit their logic.
Whichever Way the Wind Blows...
6 days ago
4 comments:
Hmmm...and here I though you were polka dotted!
Keep up the good fight.
The only way to change this country for the best is for people like you to keep putting out that positive MODEL for our young citizens to see and strive to become. I, for one, have experienced the same comments at my last school....and I valued those exchanges because it allowed me to take advantage of a teachable moment. I am now in a school that is the exact opposite and I am still grabbing onto those teachable moments.
ahhh people.
I cant say that I can entirely EMPATHIZE but Ive live my time in...less than educated towns where I received a LOT of ARE YOU AN AMERICAN OR ARE YOU JEWISH??
ahhh people.
Thanks for commenting on my blog! That is really interesting, and sad.
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