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While I was in Nashville last week, one of my co-workers told me about a truly epic race fail.
CJ is a large black woman. She was out having a smoke break with a another friend of mine, D, also black, and a white woman, E, that I only vaguely know.
E was complaining about how much it was costing her to get her yard mowed. D made a (mostly) sarcastic comment that she must be getting an American to do it. E's completely off-hand response was, "No, it's just some black guy."
WTF???
D piped back with, "Oh, yeah... because of course we're not citizens," indicating himself and CJ.
E then *proceeds to try to defend her comment,* saying that it wasn't racist and he was just taking it the wrong way, etc.
When CJ told me about this later, I thought she was kidding at first. I mean, come on -- surely even the most bigoted idiot in the world would be smarter than to say something like that, right?
Apparently not.
On the other hand, I at least got CJ to laugh about one aspect of it, when I made the comment that most people aren't flexible enough to get both feet that deeply into their own mouths at the same time. ::G::
CJ is a large black woman. She was out having a smoke break with a another friend of mine, D, also black, and a white woman, E, that I only vaguely know.
E was complaining about how much it was costing her to get her yard mowed. D made a (mostly) sarcastic comment that she must be getting an American to do it. E's completely off-hand response was, "No, it's just some black guy."
WTF???
D piped back with, "Oh, yeah... because of course we're not citizens," indicating himself and CJ.
E then *proceeds to try to defend her comment,* saying that it wasn't racist and he was just taking it the wrong way, etc.
When CJ told me about this later, I thought she was kidding at first. I mean, come on -- surely even the most bigoted idiot in the world would be smarter than to say something like that, right?
Apparently not.
On the other hand, I at least got CJ to laugh about one aspect of it, when I made the comment that most people aren't flexible enough to get both feet that deeply into their own mouths at the same time. ::G::
