It also sounds like a conversation in which it would be very easy to phrase things poorly
They incident I'm thinking about wasn't so much a conversation as something that was offered up to me.
I was irritated by it the last time someone said that to me, but the possibly
fucking obvious
subtext didn't occur to me until fairly recently. Just that he was being one of those irritating post-racial it's-best-we-ignore-things kind of people.
Not caring what my race is is
so
different from not seeing it. Gulf.
Theo, I'm so sorry for your loss but it sounds like she had a good death and I am glad for that. I know, at least, that it is comforting for me to know that my mother died peacefully in her sleep and I hope that the same is true for you and your family.
They incident I'm thinking about wasn't so much a conversation as something that was offered up to me.
Well that just seems dumb.
Yeah, if you're volunteering that to a black person with no clear segue...it just seemed like the sort of thing I was best trying to ignore. I'm not going to fall out with someone over it, but it does start to stack up.
Hm. Yeah, that seems suspect.
I'm hard-pressed to find an explanation for almost any "post-racial" sort of statement that isn't ultimately racist, to be honest.
That could be viewed as that person thinking that's a compliment. In which case, eww.
I mean, I
guess
it could just be really stupid.
I feel like such a dope for never even considering that until reasonably recently, The idea of being the "good" darkie is just...yeah.
