A while ago my husband and I were eating lunch in a restaurant, and this guy at another table kept glancing at me. He was with a man who was obviously his boyfriend or date, so I could not figure out what he wanted (and it was obvious that husband and I were partnered up too.)
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I related accents to economic class. My point is that to say all blacks talk a certain way is untrue. It sets up and has set up a binary condition where all black supposedly sound uneducated and all whites supposedly sound cultured.
Well, I’m sure that’s true for a lot of folks, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find her genuinely vulnerable and in need of help and stability AND think the same of black girls. Like the solution is not to say fuck ‘em all.
Thanks! I think that’s fair. Our policy is built on a Keynesian foundation, and suffered many neoliberal edits throughout the years. .
Ha, I know! Which is why when anyone tells me (my father) that they are fiscally conservative, socially liberal AND claim to be a Republican, I have to scoff at the inability to…
I guarantee that no one admires the “spunk” of the Black girls she is badly imitating. If I spoke like that while stealing and hitting my mother, no one would describe me as “vulnerable.” I would be just another one of those ghetto Black girls and thrown into juvvie.
Have lived with more than 5 different male roommates over the past several years, also have male friends, can confirm. Men + bathrooms = THE WORST.
Okay, I’m gonna say this one time:
She’s just a dumb kid with a lot of problems. Dr. Phil isn’t any better than Maury. He exploited her. Her mother is a fool.
My kids grew up around black people as well, and were the minority in their schools, but they know that their talking in that idiom is “forcing it.” As far as talking “street”, some black parents don’t hold with that either (I still remember how a couple of my son’s friends would turn it on and off depending if their…
Oh, she does it any chance she gets - even at Irish festivals here in the States. Pure plastic paddy.
Lmao start doing an Irish accent back at her and see what she does
Ugh. The non-black person putting on an African-American accent for fun and profit just drives me nuts. It’s like this woman I know who travels to Ireland maybe one or two weeks a year and loves to put on the accent in front of every Irish person she meets. You can see the “please no” in their eyes.
What you said there is the generally accepted theory that the new deal was merely a stopgap measure and WW2 finished the job. That’s in the US the rest of the world wasn’t as lucky.
I pay for a monthly housecleaning service specifically to ensure that a deep clean of my bathroom happens at least once a month. This is my one major “treat yo self” purchase that I do, and it is worth the $130/month I pay for it.
Being an only, adopted child does have its perks.
I’m firmly in the camp that it helped stop the bleeding and prevented it from getting worse but I still think the war was what pulled us out from the depression. I agree with Ryan insofar as the tax code needs to be re done but we differ on what should be changed.
There’s a lot of interesting stuff written about the scenario of a non polio stricken FDR being president for a long time as he was one of the most popular presidents ever and did some very dictatorial moves in his day.
In a perfect world, her parents would be in jail for child abuse, and she would be in a sanitarium until some psychologist could make her see that being the victim of child abuse along with her black foster siblings caused her to identify with black people; however, that does not make her black. What’s more,…