Well, I don't give it much thought, but I tend to just ignore them like everybody else, unless I personally know them and want to say "hi" in public or whatever, and mind my own business. Common public politeness is always a good thing too. I don't know if this is helping anybody feel comfortable, but I guess it would be better than staring or acting all weird.
I have had people freak out because I am behind them at the ATM. They are worried I will steal their PIN or something. Of course, maybe it is because I am a 1,000 lbs big hairy orange cow with horns.
I try to make white people like Shrilling Thomas and Trooper Jim comfortable by singing lullabies to them.
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from Lem's cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I see, I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Bad Meade".
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head's bent like a weed: I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Bad Meade".
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain Why do I sigh that my friends come not again, Grieving for forms now departed long from me. I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Bad Meade”.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free? Cry babes so dear that I held them on my knee, Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to be. I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Bad Meade".
I didn't know there were hills in Woodstock, IL. Or is it Woodstock, VT?
But I thought it was Crown Heights or Newark -- oh, I guess that's where I'm supposed to be living with all my homies, ridin' dirty and blowing caps or whatever, because that's the way I roll....and make people feel comfortable...and hide my true identity (which is actually not even my true identity, which is a hillbilly submoron, but that too is but a front -- I'm really a cat that can type).
Either way, I'm finding it all new age appropriate; it's fitting and somehow makes logic of the universe.
Just like I'm now finding myself laughing at a Meade quip -- that was pretty good.
If he has a hurt back, then LPN work is probably not going to work -- there's some heavy lifting in the job requirement, unless you specialize out of non-hospital staff duty. So I'm not sure the suggestion is really all that helpful (although there is truly no shame in the work itself). Just saying.
That whole thing you posted is just dumb. Anyone will get nervous when someone of any gender or ethnicity is lurking behind them at the ATM. The polite thing and correct thing to do is to stand back far enough that the person using the machine feels you can't see their transactions. Then to wait until they are completely gone from the machine to step up and use it yourself.
It has nothing to do with race. I don't care who you are if you are in my personal space, back the fuck off.
Personally, I'm like anonymous at 7:01 AM. I don't go out of my way to make anyone comfortable other than to extend the basic courtesies of life. It isn't my job to soothe your or anyone's anxieties or deal with your neurosis (sp?) I could NOT care less if someone is comfortable or not because they have some sort of a freaking chip on their shoulder or if they see everything through some sort of distorted lens of ethnicity, race or religion. Whatever. I don't care.
If people are getting freaked out because of some perceived way that THEY think that I am thinking...well....I can't help how you think. And, guess what, you can't read my mind. If I/we are threatened... then we will deal with that situation as it arises.
Don't get me wrong, landscape work is honorable (and hard work). They earn their money. But Meade, with the exception of some minor work on the Meadehouse (which is really just Althouse) gave up lawn work to that of sycophant and blog douche.
Truth is I hate when people stand behind me when I am at the ATM too. Doesn't matter what color they are. It is not racial, it is personal, as in it personally offends me when strangers get in my personal space.
I also try to make white people feel less uncomfortable by NOT taking them to see 12 Years a Slave. Many of the people who racially self identify as "white" (i.e., pass) tend too often to see things simply in black or white.
12 Years a Slave insults their preconceived notion that Americans with African heritage are all alike. It's hard enough for me to "act white" myself. I don't need those people going all "I'm a lot smarter more and more experienced than you" on me after they freak out because I took them to see a movie that's difficult for them to understand.
I personally don't believe in ATM machines, or checks really for that matter.
However, this whole "Black Men in Public Spaces" isn't a myth. People do act like that -- and then try to say they don't. At this point I'm thinking it might be better to just come out and level -- and then have an honest discussion as to why that is so. Probably be more productive (if things can be kept civil, and if people will actually listen) than this.
Truthfully, I think it has a lot to do with the image we've all been given from an early age: blacks, especially young black men, are "gonna get us"...which means, I think, that people walk around with this "oooh, is this the one that finally does me in?" in the back of their mind...irregardless of what that person or people may actually be like. Then it just devolves from there, because the person whose getting that thought of them maybe winds up in a bad situation, and then they start wondering "oooh, is this the one?" too -- self fulfilling prophecy, because at that point, nobody can be neutral, the primitive, survival emotions have been engaged and reasonable behavior is out the window. Kind of a vicious circle if you ask me.
PW/Crack: I know there is racism out there. It can affect any race depending on the circumstances, but it impacts blacks more, if only because of minority status and there is a stereotype of black criminality.
Then the only thing to do is to not help feed that beast -- if that means owning up to it, then do it, and admit it's probably wrong and to endeavor to try and not be overbearingly offensive with one's own problem on that score; if that means telling other people to cool it because it isn't right, and it isn't helping, then that's part of it too.
This whole convoluted thing seemed to kick off due to a case of not wanting to let somebody have their say or wanting to take it into account. And some people who seemed to be looking for a chance to get their little licks in, because well I don't know, just because the race was on it seemed. Then getting all bent out of shape when the recipient didn't play along with their plan, and others kinda standing by and letting it happen...and from there, hoo boy!
Well, that sure as hell has turned out just great, hasn't it?
PW
People can't choose the circumstances they were born into and the history behind it -- to go after people for that is probably kinda hypocritical as well (I'm hard on the Mormon church; I'm hard on the Mormons who choose to celebrate it lock, stock, barrel...but you'll never hear me categorically call them all gorillas; you'll never hear me say I want to take my sidearm and go get some payback for something somebody else did somewhere and some time else to some other person; my family has already had to live being the proxies for other people quite enough, don't need to be doing more of it, and it's irritating to see others actively want it so badly...so there's my two faced, two cents...)
Well, I don't give it much thought, but I tend to just ignore them like everybody else, unless I personally know them and want to say "hi" in public or whatever, and mind my own business. Common public politeness is always a good thing too.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this is helping anybody feel comfortable, but I guess it would be better than staring or acting all weird.
PW
I have had people freak out because I am behind them at the ATM. They are worried I will steal their PIN or something. Of course, maybe it is because I am a 1,000 lbs big hairy orange cow with horns.
ReplyDeleteI don't take offense.
Didn't Jesse Jackson comment on this too?
"I don't take offense."
ReplyDeleteIf you had a crowd of whites chase you from an ATM, as I did, you might feel differently.
"Didn't Jesse Jackson comment on this too?"
Yeah - I think something happened while he was cheating on his wife,...
I try to make white people like Shrilling Thomas and Trooper Jim comfortable by singing lullabies to them.
ReplyDeleteGone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from Lem's cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I see,
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Bad Meade".
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head's bent like a weed:
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Bad Meade".
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long from me.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Bad Meade”.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
Cry babes so dear that I held them on my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to be.
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Bad Meade".
Meade,
ReplyDeleteROTFLMAO!!!!!
Still, I sing them to slumber, into their dreams of riding high on their horses, wearing their pointy-headed hoods, and burning their beloved crosses.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's funny.
I burn several crosses a day here in the mountains of Woodstock.
At least I have a horse and a pot to piss in.
Well then, your white racial pride is well-founded, isn't it.
ReplyDeleteYes.
Any other questions?
You're not doing any good to a man who's drowning in self-pity and scapegoating by supporting his racist ranting, Meade.
For Christ's fucking sake, Crack, it takes 9 months to get an LPN degree in NY.
ReplyDeleteIt costs $5,000, and the Fed will loan you the money.
You walk out of the course into a job that pays $20 an hour. You'll feel good about yourself because you'll be doing something worthwhile.
Do something with your fucking life!
Yeah, Crack, get your degree so you can earn $20 an hour wiping Cracker Thomas's old white ass.
ReplyDeleteSure, Shooting Thom.
ReplyDeleteNow stop bogarting that cross your burning and pass it on around to EvilCodyBaronSixty and the other Grit boys.
I know how the LPN curriculum works because I went through it.
ReplyDeleteI was working at a consulting job that allowed me to work at home. In the last year of that job, I got paid, but had no work to do.
I've been through the entire LPN curriculum and I'm about 20 clinical hours short of being ready to take my boards.
My at home job ended and I was offered an other job before I could take my boards. That job paid more than I would make as an LPN.
Do you have any sense at all here, Meade, or do you just want to blow idiocy out your ass?
In my clinical hours, I wiped old demented people's asses.
You've made a complete fool out of yourself here.
I didn't know there were hills in Woodstock, IL.
ReplyDeleteOr is it Woodstock, VT?
But I thought it was Crown Heights or Newark -- oh, I guess that's where I'm supposed to be living with all my homies, ridin' dirty and blowing caps or whatever, because that's the way I roll....and make people feel comfortable...and hide my true identity (which is actually not even my true identity, which is a hillbilly submoron, but that too is but a front -- I'm really a cat that can type).
Either way, I'm finding it all new age appropriate; it's fitting and somehow makes logic of the universe.
Just like I'm now finding myself laughing at a Meade quip -- that was pretty good.
PW
Ground control to dumbass, Meade.
ReplyDeleteGround control to dumbass, Meade.
That didn't work out quite the way you expected, did it?
If he has a hurt back, then LPN work is probably not going to work -- there's some heavy lifting in the job requirement, unless you specialize out of non-hospital staff duty. So I'm not sure the suggestion is really all that helpful (although there is truly no shame in the work itself).
ReplyDeleteJust saying.
PW
PW
Oh so now he's your "Christian brother". I guess that's a step up from, what was it, "racist thug"?
ReplyDeleteNow try to go back to sleep, Thomas. Back to your sugarplum dreams of yesteryear when "coloreds" knew their places.
Now try to go back to sleep, Thomas. Back to your sugarplum dreams of yesteryear when "coloreds" knew their places.
ReplyDeleteOh he does not need to go back that far, Meade. Back maybe to the pre Downton Abbey days when landscape workers knew their place and station in life.
I support the American meritocracy approach myself. I tend to look down on those who just try to elevate themselves through marriage.
That whole thing you posted is just dumb. Anyone will get nervous when someone of any gender or ethnicity is lurking behind them at the ATM. The polite thing and correct thing to do is to stand back far enough that the person using the machine feels you can't see their transactions. Then to wait until they are completely gone from the machine to step up and use it yourself.
ReplyDeleteIt has nothing to do with race. I don't care who you are if you are in my personal space, back the fuck off.
Personally, I'm like anonymous at 7:01 AM. I don't go out of my way to make anyone comfortable other than to extend the basic courtesies of life. It isn't my job to soothe your or anyone's anxieties or deal with your neurosis (sp?) I could NOT care less if someone is comfortable or not because they have some sort of a freaking chip on their shoulder or if they see everything through some sort of distorted lens of ethnicity, race or religion. Whatever. I don't care.
If people are getting freaked out because of some perceived way that THEY think that I am thinking...well....I can't help how you think. And, guess what, you can't read my mind. If I/we are threatened... then we will deal with that situation as it arises.
Don't get me wrong, landscape work is honorable (and hard work). They earn their money. But Meade, with the exception of some minor work on the Meadehouse (which is really just Althouse) gave up lawn work to that of sycophant and blog douche.
ReplyDeleteTruth is I hate when people stand behind me when I am at the ATM too. Doesn't matter what color they are. It is not racial, it is personal, as in it personally offends me when strangers get in my personal space.
ReplyDeleteI also try to make white people feel less uncomfortable by NOT taking them to see 12 Years a Slave. Many of the people who racially self identify as "white" (i.e., pass) tend too often to see things simply in black or white.
ReplyDelete12 Years a Slave insults their preconceived notion that Americans with African heritage are all alike. It's hard enough for me to "act white" myself. I don't need those people going all "I'm a lot smarter more and more experienced than you" on me after they freak out because I took them to see a movie that's difficult for them to understand.
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ReplyDeleteI personally don't believe in ATM machines, or checks really for that matter.
ReplyDeleteHowever, this whole "Black Men in Public Spaces" isn't a myth. People do act like that -- and then try to say they don't.
At this point I'm thinking it might be better to just come out and level -- and then have an honest discussion as to why that is so. Probably be more productive (if things can be kept civil, and if people will actually listen) than this.
Truthfully, I think it has a lot to do with the image we've all been given from an early age: blacks, especially young black men, are "gonna get us"...which means, I think, that people walk around with this "oooh, is this the one that finally does me in?" in the back of their mind...irregardless of what that person or people may actually be like. Then it just devolves from there, because the person whose getting that thought of them maybe winds up in a bad situation, and then they start wondering "oooh, is this the one?" too -- self fulfilling prophecy, because at that point, nobody can be neutral, the primitive, survival emotions have been engaged and reasonable behavior is out the window. Kind of a vicious circle if you ask me.
PW
Meade said...
ReplyDeleteI also try to make white people feel less uncomfortable by NOT taking them to see 12 Years a Slave...
Well you could wait for Netflix too? Anyway, you are more into the whole Air Bud thing. In more ways than one.
PW/Crack: I know there is racism out there. It can affect any race depending on the circumstances, but it impacts blacks more, if only because of minority status and there is a stereotype of black criminality.
ReplyDeleteThen the only thing to do is to not help feed that beast -- if that means owning up to it, then do it, and admit it's probably wrong and to endeavor to try and not be overbearingly offensive with one's own problem on that score; if that means telling other people to cool it because it isn't right, and it isn't helping, then that's part of it too.
ReplyDeleteThis whole convoluted thing seemed to kick off due to a case of not wanting to let somebody have their say or wanting to take it into account.
And some people who seemed to be looking for a chance to get their little licks in, because well I don't know, just because the race was on it seemed. Then getting all bent out of shape when the recipient didn't play along with their plan, and others kinda standing by and letting it happen...and from there, hoo boy!
Well, that sure as hell has turned out just great, hasn't it?
PW
People can't choose the circumstances they were born into and the history behind it -- to go after people for that is probably kinda hypocritical as well (I'm hard on the Mormon church; I'm hard on the Mormons who choose to celebrate it lock, stock, barrel...but you'll never hear me categorically call them all gorillas; you'll never hear me say I want to take my sidearm and go get some payback for something somebody else did somewhere and some time else to some other person; my family has already had to live being the proxies for other people quite enough, don't need to be doing more of it, and it's irritating to see others actively want it so badly...so there's my two faced, two cents...)