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adriel luis on McCain

Adriel Luis of "Slip of the Tongue" fame; put out this vlog on McCain's "That one" comment. Good stuff.

on the debate.

"Walk softly, but carry a big stick." -Teddy Roosevelt; John McCain on Humanitarian efforts that don't threat National Security.

"I ain't going out like that. They say you can't carry knifes on planes now? I'ma bring a stick next time, yo. I'ma tell you like this. Someone try to hijack a plane, and I'ma about to catch multiple bumps, kid. HARD WOOD. You know that hard wood they make fancy chairs out of? I'ma go to Macy's furniture department,... I'ma take the leg off one of them expensive chairs, right? And I'ma fly anywhere... and watch. Some motherf--ker even say some shit to me, son, cat's is catching BUMPS kid, everyone in my AISLE, yo." -Danny Hoch, Corner talk, September.

Random Life Moment

I just want to be in the Philippines right now.
I feel it deep in my insides that I want to be there.

If I were strong enough, I'd just drop everything and go.
But I'm not, and want to go with others.


^sigh.

Random life moment: 1986 Race Article

Isn't that how you pictured us? All war paint and loincloths sprinting up Capital Hill, chucking spears into the White House Lawn, the bones of fallen Caucasians rattling from our necks? -English, Alvin Lau

In Race and Ethnicity today, my professor showed us an old article from U.S. News and World Report entitled "Profile of Tomorrow's New Tomorrow." It was all about how in 2080, non-europeans were going to outnumber europeans in America.

It just REEKED of ethnocentric, the-end-is-coming, fear.
Take for instance the line that says:

"And within the next century, about 40 percent of the nation's workers will be immigrants who arrived in the U.S. after 1980 or their descendants."

[And yeah, yeah, it's been ten years since the article was written, and we've made movements for racial equality, but we're not there yet, so I'm still gonna rant about this.]

The thing is, my parents came in 1977. And I'm one of their descendants. I know that seems obvious and all, but I'm a smart mild-mannered college-educated twenty something, who doesn't get drunk off her ass, and likes graffiti art and blogs. Am I really all that threatening?
Because, hey, guess what, I'm not the only one like this? Oh yeah, just to let you know, there are THOUSANDS of people like me. We might be in your neighborhoods, attending your schools, dating your sons and daughters... and we're brown. Just to let you know.

'Is our migration to your great county really so scary?' -English, Alvin Lau

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