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One student commented: “White washing still exists, it’s been done enough in Hollywood, look at Liz Taylor in Cleopatra.”
I wonder if they have any clue whatsoever that Cleopatra was a scion of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's bodyguards/generals and a Macedonian? you know, European.
And it just struck me that our lovely blog hostess named her dog after an Ethiopian. Wait till the Usual Suspects get a load of that!
Break out the fainting couches!
I R A Darth Aggie
at October 13, 2016 6:49 PM
Rich white granny in Cambridge graciously educates us on how letting little boys run around saying "bang bang shoot shoot"is nothing but a racist society gone berserk with white privilege!
She's enlightened, she's progressive, and darn it she's just better than you.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at October 13, 2016 8:23 PM
"My grandsons are oblivious to their white privilege, which starts with the freedom as kids to brandish fake weapons and pretend to kill each other, with no dire consequences."
Jeez Gog! Now it's my fault (old white guy) that blacks are killing themselves.
I'm really really dense 'cause I just don't feel the privilege. Although I did try to make good decisions and not make the same mistake twice.
Is that "white privilege"? Poor blacks are just unable to stop making bad decisions because I'm white? Yet I was (mostly) able to do so? Kinda succeeded although my net worth doesn't show it (bad decisions and life).
The black guys I went to school with and worked with must have been superheros then I guess. Able to fend off all of that "white privilege" I was sending out unknowingly.
I’m one of the Central Park Five. Donald Trump won’t leave me alone. http://wpo.st/yrT52
Amy Alkon at October 12, 2016 9:22 PM
Gag Amy.
Love how deese guys "don't" understand how society gets riled up about brutal criminal action. "NOOOOO! IT'S MEEEEEE he wants to kill."
Funny how life can really screw with all other races but never never w/Blacks. It's all racist.
That was a brutal brutal thing done to that lady.
Bob in Texas at October 13, 2016 4:40 AM
Are you seriously asking for one of the Central Park Five to be more "understanding"?
Crid at October 13, 2016 10:09 AM
Politics.
Crid at October 13, 2016 10:10 AM
American kids among the fattest in the world...
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/no-u-s-kids-fit-world-article-1.2827003
I love the lower-third on the chyron: "Parenting Could Play a Role in Kids' Fitness Habits"
You think?
Kevin at October 13, 2016 11:05 AM
When a shrinking pie isn't big enough to give everyone as big a slice as they think they deserve, what do you do? Cut the people without power out of the deal.
Cousin Dave at October 13, 2016 11:18 AM
http://abc7news.com/news/family-sends-pizza-man-to-check-on-grandma-after-hurricane/1553292/
Sixclaws at October 13, 2016 1:18 PM
Aida cancelled amid concerns of cultural appropriation.
Really, white people doing opera is cultural appropriation?
Conan the Grammarian at October 13, 2016 6:14 PM
Check your white whiskey privilege:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-12/finally-a-whiskey-for-people-who-prefer-vodka
I R A Darth Aggie at October 13, 2016 6:38 PM
From Conan's opera linkie:
I wonder if they have any clue whatsoever that Cleopatra was a scion of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's bodyguards/generals and a Macedonian? you know, European.
This is believed to be a bust of her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra#/media/File:Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin1.jpg
I R A Darth Aggie at October 13, 2016 6:47 PM
And it just struck me that our lovely blog hostess named her dog after an Ethiopian. Wait till the Usual Suspects get a load of that!
Break out the fainting couches!
I R A Darth Aggie at October 13, 2016 6:49 PM
Rich white granny in Cambridge graciously educates us on how letting little boys run around saying "bang bang shoot shoot"is nothing but a racist society gone berserk with white privilege!
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/09/20/toy-guns-and-children-barbara-beckwith
She's enlightened, she's progressive, and darn it she's just better than you.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at October 13, 2016 8:23 PM
"My grandsons are oblivious to their white privilege, which starts with the freedom as kids to brandish fake weapons and pretend to kill each other, with no dire consequences."
Jeez Gog! Now it's my fault (old white guy) that blacks are killing themselves.
I'm really really dense 'cause I just don't feel the privilege. Although I did try to make good decisions and not make the same mistake twice.
Is that "white privilege"? Poor blacks are just unable to stop making bad decisions because I'm white? Yet I was (mostly) able to do so? Kinda succeeded although my net worth doesn't show it (bad decisions and life).
The black guys I went to school with and worked with must have been superheros then I guess. Able to fend off all of that "white privilege" I was sending out unknowingly.
Tell the Chicago dudes I'm really really sorry.
Bob in Texas at October 14, 2016 4:04 PM
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