Let me introduce you to my friend’s blog, Plunge.
She wrote something today and while yes a little violent it made me smile. She is going to raise some amazing revolutionaries.
Wow. I never thought I’d say it, but I think this guy is even dumber and scarier than W.
Let me sum up the article for you:
Student who describes himself as “redneck” wears highly offensive t-shirt to school. Said shirt depicts Confederate flag on the front and, on the back, Klansmen waving to a newly married couple driving away whose car drags two lynched black men behind it. Black student pummels him after informing him shirt is “you know, racial”. Student says “I’m not a racist”, among other things you really have to read for yourself to believe. Dad says “whatever, it’s your life”.
If I were a black student at that school, I would have beat the shit out of that kid and then tied the ignorant racist fuck to the bumper of my car and dragged him a few hundred feet.
sorry for posting this under your comment section; i couldn’t find your email addy. your site is great! i already checked out some of your chican@/latin@ links. i’d be flattered if you would add my site to the list.
thanks. ;)
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but hey, I don’t think bush is any smarter than this guy. does this guy’s comes from wealth, has ties to the oil industry. we might see him running fo presient one day.
Elena, I’m totally flattered. I don’t think I’ve ever been linked by anyone, ever.
Maybe I’m naive, but I never thought I’d see a person say, with all apparent seriousness, that he “hates black people” but isn’t a racist. Ooooookay. It just raises all sorts of interesting socio-political questions. Has the word “racist” become more powerful than the sentiment behind it? Is it now on some level more acceptable to say you hate a race but god forbid anyone call you a racist? Or is this kid just that fucking stupid? If he’s a “redneck” does he feel like this gives him some measure of power or importance? What gives?
Plus, I have to give props (do the kids still say that?) to the black student who had the presence of mind to ask him if he knew the shirt was offensive before giving him the pounding he so richly deserved. I don’t think I would have been that calm about it. Clearly, as I do advocate giving this kid a beating.
I think the rich don’t feel the need to flaunt their racism since they control everything and can perpetuate institutional racism and let brown people drown and contract totally preventable diseases while contemplating not rebuilding their homes. If he learns how to finesse his racism into talking points about how we need to end “welfare dependency”, yeah, I think he’d run for office.
I could go on and on about this.
Never the pacifist.
Pinche Oso, I think am onna hafta take myself down to the local Walmart here in Sweden and take my mica pic too, just to give you a run for your pesos ese! ;) but my jealous moment here is not why I barged in to this conversation. Elena, my RSS and atom feeds are now working esa! catcha ya’ll around homies.
Jennifer, I added you to the list. I hope you check some of them out, there are quite a few Chicana PhD students on it.
TÃÂn, I hope we see your hija running for prez.
Emily, who got this kid the shirt? and like you mention his dad thought it was okay. I bet you he didn’t want to be told he was a racist because at some point in school we all go through a “racism” is bad training but never examples of how we particpate in it.
Oso, you saying you are never a pacificst or that I never am?
Julio, I am so glad you have an rss feed now. I am on it. I’ll add it to my bloglines.
A person is racist because they are ignorant. They are ignorant because they have limited life experiences and/or don’t think about the world in anything approaching a sophisticated way.
Beating the crap out of someone because they are ignorant does not make them less ignorant. It will not make them sit up and say “Gee, now that I’ve had the crap kicked out of me, I really do understand everything much better.”
Anyone who thinks that is almost as ignorant as a racist. The best way to eradicate racism is to have a more educated populace, not a more violent one.
WestEnder, I certainly didn’t mean to imply that it would change his mind. I meant only that I would find it very, very satisfying.
This kid is proud of his beliefs and, if you want to know the god’s honest truth, I don’t think “educating” him would do a lot of good. What would this education consist of? I’m willing to bet he’s well-versed in diversity/diversity training and, as Elena says, the idea that racism is bad, but this has only made him believe that “blacks think they’re better than everybody else”. His words, in the article. Check it out.
“They are ignorant because they have limited life experiences” – I don’t really buy into this reasoning as to why racism exists. What are “limited life experiences”? He’s in high school (with a diverse group of students, obviously), everyone at that age has limited life experiences. Not everyone in high school is an ignorant person. I think it is much deeper and more ingrained than this and simply “educating” people isn’t necessarily going to make them do an about-face about deep-seated, lifelong beliefs. People with PhD’s in international relations can be racists, too. I don’t think we can ascribe such social pathologies to simple igorance or lack of experience. There’s a whole hell of a lot else going on besides.
Elena, I don’t know where he got the shirt. I’m guessing he either bought it himself or his enabling father bought it for him. The article mentions it’s from “Dixie Outfitters”.
Okay, but like why “If I were a Black student I woulda kicked the shit out of him.”
why didn’t you do it anyway?