Not sure whether to laugh or strangle somebody

[ebonlock]

This post over at Sadly,No!, linking to this in the Washington Post has left me desperately wanting to choke a bitch:

Stephanie Usrey strode up to her local Wal-Mart store the other morning with the steely look of a boxer about to step into the ring.

A stay-at-home mother of two, Usrey has dreaded shopping at this particular branch ever since a Friday afternoon about five years ago, when she said she suddenly noticed she was the only non-Latino customer.

“That was the first time I looked around and said, ‘Man, I didn’t realize how many Mexicans there were here,’ ” Usrey, 39, recalled. “And they don’t seem to feel any discomfort when they’re, like, six inches from your face and talking to each other in their language, either. I just felt very encroached upon. . . . It was like an instant feeling of ‘I’m in the minority, and if we don’t get control over this, pretty soon all of America will be outnumbered.’”

OH NOES! Her delicate white ears were assaulted by the sounds of another language! Oh the humanity! But seriously this is the fundamental basis for racism, the desperate, desperate fear that one who's been in a majority all their life and enjoyed all of its privileges, would suddenly find themselves in a minority. The horror that someday they might be able to treat you the way you have treated them.

And the most astonishing bit is that if you asked Ms. Usrey whether she was a racist or not she'd undoubtedly deny it indignantly. The stupidity, fear and myopic world view these people have strikes me as both unutterably sad and at the same time infuriating.

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[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Stephanie Usrey strode up to her local Wal-Mart store the other morning with the steely look of a boxer about to step into the ring.

*sigh* And here I thought she hated shopping at WalMart because WalMart s*cks.
Course the bigots have said that about every minority who has come into this country. "The Neighborhood will be filled with Irish" was the phrase at the turn of the last century. See what has happened? We got St Pat's Day and Irish Beer!
Just wait until all she can find is Mexican food. Which I actually don't look forward to because I'm allergic to Hot Peppers. Oh well, that's why San Jose has Ranch 99, a Pan Asian Market!

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd live in a world where such racism would be repeated, much less published.

But I remember overhearing CNN when my in-laws were visiting, and that total shit Nancy Grace was talking about Barack Obama smoking cigarettes and attending a Muslim school, (the latter being totally untrue.)

But what I was hearing was; "do we really want a ni**er running this country?" The racism was so overt it could only escape a very dense child, or George W. Bush.

I don't even voluntarily turn on live TV and the racism and "White pride" is clear enough to me. I feel like I'm living in the 1950s.

Bullshit Mr. Hand Man, You come straight out of a comic book

[everreese.livejournal.com]

Also to add, this type of "Myth" is being spoon fed to the African-American communities too.

The Mexican's are taken the Jobs the Blacks don't want because the blacks are lazy. They are America's second class now...Etc...

Now there is rising Black on Hispanic crimes via the Gang Violence and in the Prison Systems.

I have even shamefully encountered Blacks saying " The Spanish are taking over our neighborhoods, jobs, etc"

I am like WTF??

Are you people understanding what is going on, how the establishment is putting you against a people that has more in common with you than anything else....

Anywho...My rants over

"Live Truth or Die Lying"

Re: Bullshit Mr. Hand Man, You come straight out of a comic book

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Divide and Conquer - the oldest strategy in the book.

I was raised in a town called Palo Alto, which is next-door to Stanford University. It was called one of the most "progressive" cities in the country when I was a kid.

But the racism was there even among the most liberal. Black and White were actually divided by a freeway, (and still are,) and I was brought up surrounded by subtle messages telling me to fear and mistrust people with black or brown skin.

The liberals were very good at disguising their racism, (though sometimes it wasn't so disguised,) which to me makes it all that much more insidious. But in my high school of close to 800 there were maybe 20 Black students, and they definitely felt intimidated by the White power structure - in fucking Palo Alto!

We were supposed to be better than that, and thankfully my parents never taught us that crap, but we learned it anyway.

I've spent my entire adult life un-learning it.