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.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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aurelia - Sep 01, 2012 5:19:35 pm PDT #20646 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2012 5:31:09 pm PDT #20647 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Pix - Sep 01, 2012 5:33:50 pm PDT #20648 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Hm. Yeah, that seems suspect.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2012 5:47:28 pm PDT #20649 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm hard-pressed to find an explanation for almost any "post-racial" sort of statement that isn't ultimately racist, to be honest.
Ginger - Sep 01, 2012 5:47:43 pm PDT #20650 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That could be viewed as that person thinking that's a compliment. In which case, eww.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2012 5:48:01 pm PDT #20651 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, I guess it could just be really stupid.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 01, 2012 5:49:05 pm PDT #20652 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Be gentle with me, but would a reasonable possible subtext of "I don't see race when I look at you" be "You're not like the other black people"?
Yep.
That could be viewed as that person thinking that's a compliment. In which case, eww.
Also yes.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2012 5:52:24 pm PDT #20653 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel like such a dope for never even considering that until reasonably recently, The idea of being the "good" darkie is just...yeah.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2012 5:53:59 pm PDT #20654 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sorry.
Lee - Sep 01, 2012 6:33:20 pm PDT #20655 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.