I was just hunting for the Jamaican racial demographics, and I think most interestingly of all, the racial breakdown is not currently in the main Wikipedia article, nor in the "Demographics of Jamaica" article. Where, you'd think...nope, only in Peoples¹.
The general proportions in the main article indicate that we self-identify by nationality where I guess they're implying Americans would say they're mixed--it's not one of Wikipedia's clearest sentences, over-citation to boot. But, when presented with the option of African-Jamaican or anything more granular than 1 adjective, it's the answer I'd have predicted.
Completely unrelatedly I looked up at my TiVo and noticed nothing was recording, , so I had to see how bad Mondays were and...2 Broke Girls again. It's amazing how blatant they are about substituting sexual references (at least 2 erections so far and one mention of anal sex that sounded like a callback (um, NPI, just in case). But some of it is so awkward that I can't even diagram it. I mean, you go to first break on "Yeah, definitely anal" and your second shot is
"I'm very good at manipulating the young boys--I once got a ten year old I was babysitting to buy me pop tarts with his allowance."
There's a laugh track and everything but...nope, I poke at it, but I don't see where it goes.
Then again--I think I did see a Streisand movie called The Guilt Trip" which has clearly had an entendre surgically removed.
Oh, wait! More sexual references without context. Then an completely incomprehensible bit of Amish emoting and a cat.
And Community has 13 more episodes to live. I just...life is majorly unjust.
I have been in scenarios where saying "Okay, but when you're standing here, where you're standing is white." will not get me beat up, but I was pretty much walking a fine line there. Because race is so much more subjective and less rigourously definable than, say, sex, I'm totally fascinated with what any of it feels like, but of course I will never know, and can't compare it to me, because I can't tell part of my psyche from the rest of it either.
Yeah, that makes sense (although it took me a couple times through, and I must disclaim that gender--note difference in terminology--is as fraught, albeit mostly for a smaller population). I will totally cop to white girl baggage, and am afraid that I am totally unequipped to comment on the representativeness of anyone's experience because I am regularly reminded that my perspectives are pretty damn unusual for people with my demographics.
All I know is that the other day on twitter when I bemoaned "white chocolate" as being gross, a number of my black (male) tweeps immediately let me know that that was their nickname for me.
I was flattered and honored, but now I can only think of myself as a waxy gross piece of indelible chemical tasting crap.
Hah! I agree about the actual substance, but now can only picture you as a secret DJ, coming to us on the radio with slow jams and love songs...and baseball...
Oh I love that image so much. I shall groove you to the slow pulse....
have you all see this post?
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It claims that that a white hat hacker group thwarted Karl Rove's attempt to steal the election. No way to verify claims, I don't think.
Did you all hear about someone who was at Paul Rudd's play "Grace" in NYC in the balcony and who puked on patrons in the orchestra section?
It is an unbelievable story. The comments section of this article have me laughing and crying.
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I can't read it!! It's too gross!!!!
something is wrong with me because while I found it gross, I actually read 3 articles about the incident!
the comments gave me the giggles.
