So you think you've been discriminated against

So, you think you've been discriminated against.

Last week ETSU hosted a free off-broadway play called Auction Block to Hip Hop which, you may guess, is about African American history set to poetry and music. I didn't go and am kind of disappointed since it seems I missed some fun. From what I've heard, for the time that play ran, the white people there were made to feel uncomfortable and discriminated? against. Why they chose to go to a blackcentric event I'll never know. I do know so many people walked out of the Post Racial & Hip Hop speech I just wondered why they even wasted time. Really, do you just stumble into the auditorium without reading the fliers? And they say we chase race.

So, you think you've been discriminated against.

My anthro prof put it nicely when she said that they had felt for 30 minutes what African Americans have felt and will feel all our lives. I disagreed that it was unfortunate that the experience made them uncomfortable.

So, you think you've been discriminated against.

I hate the term reverse racism. It's just stupid and makes no sense to me. I can't imagine for the life of me why black kids would be wary of white kids because white folks are just so damn awesome. And it's usually thrown out by the majority, oppressive party, perhaps to justify their treatment of inferiors. This may or may not include women and colored folk.

So, you think you've been discriminated against.

We talked about institutional racism in my anthro class today which is great. Professor asked if the class thought the US was doing better to become a pluralistic society. I disagree, because A) I'm cynical and B) I feel that whenever we point out what steps society has made it's usually relative. There wasn't enough time to explain my answer in full and how pissed I am at the world.

So, you think you've been discriminated against.

It sucks to be black sometimes. I won't lie. I don't hate myself but damn I do get tired of just being a skin color. I should actually probably be glad more people don't know my sexual orientation or religious non-views, or I might as well curl into a ball and disappear. I rather wish I could. If I could hide my gender more I'd be alright.

So, you think you've been discriminated against.

If one more person throws out their race credentials at me I will scream at them. I am African, Jamaican, Blackfoot, Irish and English, I do not care if you are German, Hawaiian and Korean. What you said was wrong, the minority groups dwelling within you does not make it correct.

So, you think you've been discriminated against?

Maybe you have. Maybe you haven't.