caitlyn -> No Longer White!!!!! (3/22/2008 10:11:51 PM)
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Based on DomiGuy's "group of white people," and Thompson's response to me, "Thats very white of you." ... I have decided to tell a short story I wasn't brave enough to tell before, and then make a short proclamation statement. I dated someone for a while ... six weeks, give or take. You couldn't go to Starbucks for a coffee with this guy, without him bringing up his race, and using words and terms like slavery, oppression, back of the bus, whitey this and whitey that. He was a fucking boring guy to date, looking back at it. One evening we were at a casual wine bar with a few of his friends, and politics came up. Me, who offline (believe it or not) rarely says much of anything, casually mentioned that I was still undecided, but was leaning towards Senator Clinton. You know, that instantly heated things up and within ten minutes of the start of that conversation, with me adding all of maybe three words, someone called me a racist. I excused myself to use the ladies room, and hit 222-2222 until a cab showed up. The next day, the guy called me, and he was pissed ... seriously pissed. He told me I was a typical white girl who didn't want to be seen with a black man, and seemed somewhat unwilling to accept the notion that since we dated for six weeks, that might be a bit illogical. Within the scope of his rant about evil white girls, he managed to ask me why I just left. I told him I didn't appreciate his friends coming down on me like that, and appreciated even less, him sitting there allowing it. His response floored me ... he told me that now I got a little taste of what it was like to be a black person. Well, enough was enough ... so I decided to have a little indignation of my own. I told him that he was a graduate student at Rice University, drove a Porche, and that you could play tennis in his parent's living room. I told him be belittled everyone that has really suffered, by claiming that suffering for himself .. when he was really just a whiney rich kid. Now ... for anyone that lived through that boring story (and you have my apologies for a major rant) ... the statement. I'm no longer white ... period. From this moment forward, I'm officially "pre-summer tan" light bronze ... soon to be "post-summer tan" dark bronze. I have no race. My only race is the race to graduation in May, and the race to the clubs every night, all summer long. So for all you wannabe racists out there, keep your white, honky, cracker, comments to yourself ... or pick some actual white people to sling them at. From now on ... I'm just Bronze Irish.
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