Race is a touchy subject.
But I'm gonna touch it. For Part 1, we're just going to establish some self-evident truths, so we can start from a common ground in the "meatier" part 2:
Whites Like: earth tones, down payments, credit cards, the Frey, trashcans under the sink, football, suburbs, volvos, being on time, slacks, goulash, the country, pretending like they don't have money, condoms, Fox News, holding down a steady job, PBR, pacifism, cocaine, and nachos
Blacks Like: dark-blue crown vics, cash, zoot suits, Newports, basketball, the neighborhood, Barrack Obama, barbecues, Earth, Wind & Fire, fresh ink, Sunday services, grandmama, toothpicks, shape ups, community organizations, jobs in transit or parcel delivery, being outside, slang, pulling out, double extra large everything, and glass coffee tables
Latinos Like: fresh haircuts, being short, nails, guac, pesos, Our Lady of Guadalupe, getting up at 5 am, tiny pickups, big families, well-organized dances, hot weather, sangria, soccer, rollin' deep, long jorts, skinny chains, facial hair, the day of the dead, cooking, landscaping, Spanish, and dominoes
Asians Like: Efficiency, two-parent homes, math, rice, the violin, over-populating countries, being nice, assimilation, Buddha, clotheslines, slow morning stretch routines in the park, origami, fireworks, glasses, pottery, that regular-ass Asian haircut, anime, blending in, and fish
Alright, everyone got that handled? This evening I'm going to use some of these truths to craft a little tale about race in America and how we need to look at it, so that we all don't sound like idiots to the people that read about us in the history books in 200 years, like they sound to us.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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