Thursday, March 13, 2008

Disclaimer

If you’ll bear with me, I want to run something up the flagpole and see if it salutes. It was brought to my attention that some of my remarks, in particular racially, may get some people a little riled up and I’d like to explain myself.
I’m a Caucasian American, so are a lot of my friend and in fact my entire family. But I do have friends from near every ethnic, racial and sexually oriented group. I really don’t give a shit what your ‘thing’ is, just so long as you are who you are and allow others to be who they are. Some say I’m a doe eyed idealist in that respect. I know what exists outside the confines of my cerebral cavity. I know that the KKK are out there; lingering, hating. (Ed’s. Note: they are include by name because they are still active and highly visible in this country.) I just happen to think they’re so ignorant it’s funny. So I make jokes in regards to things bigots say matter-of-factly in hopes that someday, more people will think they’re jokes and less will buy into bigotry.
When I call Yao Ming the ‘Chinaman’, I’m making a Big Lebowski reference. When I say that I think everyone I know secretly hates black people, I mean that they don’t wear baggy jeans and listen to BIG or Jay everyday. And just wait til I start saying fuck white people. What I mean by that will blow your minds…But this shit’s all jokes. So please, don’t take me too seriously. Let’s have fun with this. Life is too short to argue about beliefs, let’s debate ideas. Fuck the KKK.

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