Checking out at grocery store with eggs and margarine to make cookies clerk holds up margarine and says, “What do you think about THIS!”
I’m thinking “margarine?” but I say nothing.
She helps me out saying, “THEY took the Indian off!”
Still processing ( long day tired ...
I’m thinking “margarine?” but I say nothing.
She helps me out saying, “THEY took the Indian off!”
Still processing ( long day tired ...
... pulled up to a stop sign not a stop light on way there and waited for it to turn green ) she asks, “WHY?”
At this point I’m pretty sure question while important to her is mostly rhetorical.
But clerk presses on “THEY took ___ images of ___ and ___ off ___ and ___).”
At this point I’m pretty sure question while important to her is mostly rhetorical.
But clerk presses on “THEY took ___ images of ___ and ___ off ___ and ___).”
My silence is golden but still leaves an opening for another question, “WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WOULD DO THAT?”
So I think to myself people sensitive to feelings of Native American Indians still upset about being stereotyped, having their lands stolen, bounties put on them like ...
So I think to myself people sensitive to feelings of Native American Indians still upset about being stereotyped, having their lands stolen, bounties put on them like ...
... animals or killed en masse in massacres or uprooted as in trail of tears or on another product Blacks stereotyped and exploited and tortured forced into slavery ( you know the whole slavery thing with people owned like stock animals bought and sold ) but I still say nothing.
Clerk says “ Have a nice day.” I say “You too” & leave. I think about woman I knew who I thought cared about people until one time she told me about going to public pool with niece’s child. What she told me stopped me in my tracks. She said, “They let Black kids in the pool. ...
... don’t you think that’s terrible?” I said nothing. That was decades ago and the clerk was last night but the attitude was the same. What stands out to me EVERY TIME is that the people expressing racist views or as with clerk thinking we’re going too far to accommodate ...
... (some) minorities’ sensitives seem to think their view is the only right view and everybody believes like them and thinks like them. I think they must if they feel free to just blurt it out in contexts as diverse as margarine packaging and which kids allowed to swim in pool.
But the cookies to be made are for my daughter’s birthday and she has BELIEVE THERE IS GOOD IN THE WORLD and is good (because God don’t make no junk like the child on the poster on the wall of the barber shop I used to go to long ago.) The sun shines on all of us but not in ...
... us all. I so much want to be a good person and father but my daughter is so contrary sometimes I say things too mean too much sensitive to context of my own feelings and not to context of what she’s going through at the moment. As a person I’m working on it. The world ...
... can’t be good all the time with only a sticker BELIEVE THERE IS GOOD IN THE WORLD that’s why we have to be the change ( for good ) we want to see. Putting others down never brought anybody up while true doesn’t fit with all it takes for evil to win is for good people to ...
... say or do nothing. I was silent on those two occasions and many others. You have to pick your battles not waste time and think about self care. Racist ideation built up over years can’t be addressed at a check out line when you’re in a hurry. But we should talk about it.
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