miss e goin'be on teVEE

i'm starting to talk like a black person. but i work with mostly black people so naturally i find myself saying things with a different accent.

ok, the title of this post IS true, but it'll be on the local school district channel. but i'd like to write about the topic with which i started.


i was very excited to be working at a school with a black principal. why? being from "the north" and growing up in a mostly upper middle class area, i really was not exposed to black culture. mid-paragraph caveat: i'm speaking like i'm some kind of expert but i'm not these are just some thoughts. the difference i'm noticing here in the south is that, at least in my work environment... hm how can i say this? they seem like culturally more accessible. at u of i it seemed to me (with asian-tation and african-american homecoming) everyone belonged to their own little racial universe, with us irish-americans left to try to blend in with the drunk frat-tards. in other words, there was plenty of racial variety, but not so much racial integration. i don't think it was on purpose, at least from my point of view; i just saw it as something that just happens as a result of who people's friends already are before going to college. there were probably five black kids in my high school graduating class. so the chances of me being friends with them was very very low because i was a pretty shy kid anyway. here it seems like different races are better integrated with each other than they are up north.

so since then i've been thinking, i'm not sure i believe in racism; i think it would cease to be a problem issue once people cease to make it a problem. to me, when making friends i don't discriminate based on racial lines - i discriminate between the pretty people and the ugly people!

and since then i've begun to see racism as an excuse people use for failure. i'm not going to deny that racially motivated incidents happen - i mean, geez, my generation has not yet inherited the country from generations where racism was an issue so of course things happen. but it's like, STOP USING THE FRIGGIN' RACE CARD! it's just like the feminist movement: y'all have achieved what you were seeking, so move on.

anyway.

so yeah, as i mentioned yesterday the principal at my school was involuntarily moved to a high school. i believe this is his last week; i may be wrong. anyway after most of the kids went home, a guy with a tv camera walks into the front office. he asked to get a few shots of us (the office staff) with mr. principal. so tomorrow i'm going to make sure i do my hair - i did nothing to it today because it was rainy and what was the point?

and here's why i can't be a feminist: i prefer to have a man-administrator. kids listen so much better to men than they do to women, and that's something no movement is going to change.