July 8, 2007
An Indelicate Post
Nobody wants to discuss the fun topics anymore. Like race relations! I'm a firm believer that bringing up the subject of race will liven any party.
I'm pretty sure if I'd lived 200 years ago I would have owned a bunch of black people. They were like the baseball cards, the Pokemon, of their day. Status, squared. Couldn't have enough. I'm also sure that came with a pretty horrible price. I'm thinking owning human beings was like mainlining heroin. Sure, it's an exotic rush, but you know the payback is going to be brutal. You check your soul at the door there, man. And there ain't no rainchecks.
I prolly still would have bought a few. Keep up with the Joneses. I wouldn't have known any better.
A close relative of mine who shall remain nameless today had the audacity to insult MY favourite tennis player Rafael Nadal by calling him a "dirty European". I asked him where he thought he descended from but he declined to answer. *sigh*...
Posted by: Chickie at July 8, 2007 7:16 PMWell, he probably IS a dirty European! Like I'm a dirty cracker.
I think we Southerners feel a lot more guilt about slavery, and hence try to counterbalance. Still touchy subject, sadly.
Posted by: Velociman at July 8, 2007 7:23 PMFavorite Europeans... WTF, really? There's somebody in USA that has one in stock, or mind?
Vman, if you didn't stick 'em 'tween your bicycle spoke to make that cool noise, you're gold dude.
That's what Mike Schmidt rookie baseball cards were for.
I saved the Hanks, and Willie's. They were special.