Posted by llrrrpp on August 29, 2006, at 20:01:33
In reply to Re: Anybody seen Crash yet?, posted by TexasChic on August 29, 2006, at 19:44:17
So, on the topic of "polite racism",
One of my friends X lives in Suburban San Diego. She lives in a lovely development where everyone's home is equally landscaped and all the children are above average, etc etc...
Out on one of her regular walks with the neighborhood gals, X listens to her neighbor complain about how her son got rejected from one of the Universities of California. Mother's reasoning for this was that he's white, and they only take minorites nowadays... and then went on a minor rant about minorities and how they are given all kinds of priveleges. FYI- San Diego is far more republican than other major W. Coast cities...
X pointed out- um, *I'm* a minority...
Her friend stopped, mouth agape, realizing that she's just made one of the 21st century's major political faux pas'-- caught in the act of bigotry. Furiously backpedalling... Oh, NO, X, I didn't mean YOU, I meant all those Latino and Black kids. Asians are the "good" minorities.... and so on.
And then X asked her-- so, what do you think about immigrants? [X is an immigrant with discernable accent]...
don't get me started. If it can happen in educated, wealthy suburbia, it can happen ANYWHERE.
-ll
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