Okay, I don't make race topics, and I generally find them stupid. But I'm going to make one anyway.
So anyway, I'm black. And as a black person, one of the things that pisses me off to no end is when black people act just like how racist people expect them to act. Especially when it's me.
Example: Does anyone remember that Chappelle's show sketch where Dave Chappelle is on a plane and asks for a meal, and the stwardess says that she has chicken and fish? Haha. Then a little black minstrel genie appears on Dave's shoulder and says "get the chicken!" But Dave says he wants the fish. So then the stewardess goes to get the fish. But then she comes back and tells Dave that they're out of fish. And dave asks how the chicken is prepared, and she tells him that it's fried. Then the little dude on his shoulder says "HALLELUYA!!" and does a little minstrel jig.
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
So anyway, there was a new waiter at the restaurant where I work. And she's black. Only black waiter in the whole place. First black waiter I've seen in the 6 months I've been there. So I just started thinking, "well, she's not gonna be here long."
Fast forward to a couple of weeks later. She gets fired. When I ask around as to why, I find out that one day whe it was foggy and there was a lot of condensation on the windows of the restaurant, she wrote obscene messages on the windows as a joke.
And I just had to shake my head in shame.
I mean, damn. 50 freaking waiters working at the place, all but one or two being white. For at least a half a year, not one ****ing black waiter. This chick gets hired, despite being black, and she has to **** it up by doing some absolutely stupid ass ghetto ****.
And what pisses me off is that now, when the next 20 black people apply for the job, they're gonna have the odds stacked against them even more, just because the only black person to have that job in the last 6 months ****ed things up by being stupid.
Now, I'm just wondering how you guys feel about this. Like, does it absolutely piss you off and make you saddened when you see people of your race/ethnic group acting exactly like the stereotypes about them? Or do you really not care?
Or do you SOMETIMES care, but other times NOT care? As in, I live in the ghetto, so I see lots of black people acting like STEREOTYPICAL black people. But hey, it's the ghetto. What else am I gonna expect? But when I see black people who have everything going well for them, and they STILL **** things up, that just makes me angry and sad.
Does the same thing happen to you? For all of the hispanics, asians, Irish-Americans out there, etc, does this sort of stuff bother you as much as it bothers me? Or am I just being silly?
MrGeezer
I dont know why you grouped Irish Americans with blacks and hispanics. I take real offense to that. I, like many of your black "leaders" say that black people are their own worst enemies, and the ONLY thing holding yourselves down.
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