Everyone’s a little bit racist Sometimes. Doesn’t mean we go Around committing hate crimes. Look around and you will find No one’s really color blind. Maybe it’s a fact We all should face Everyone makes judgments Based on race.

Everyone’s a little bit racist Today. So, everyone’s a little bit racist Okay! Ethinic jokes might be uncouth, But you laugh because They’re based on truth. Don’t take them as Personal attacks. Everyone enjoys them – So relax!

Everyone’s a little bit racist - All right! Bigotry has never been Exclusively white If we all could just admit That we are racist a little bit, Even though we all know That it’s wrong, Maybe it would help us Get along.

Now, THERE’S a bastion of good manners and excellent customer service – and if you are lucky enough to be brown yourself, they treat you SO much better.

Wow, and here I thought nobody noticed me. sniff

You point to the queen and the security guard and say “racially insensitive”.

I did? Wow, I didn’t know I could write without knowing it.

You point to turbanhead and say “irony”. You assume that a elderly black man was “part of the civil rights movement” and that obviously he meant “the US” and not the building/neighborhood, and I guess on your part that’s just being “racially insightful”

No, insightful will just do fine.

because Amerikkkans are like that, right?

Hmmmm…I’ve never used ‘Amerikkkans’ before. The only one who did that was GC, but if it’s not trademarked, could I use it?

So when me and mine do it, it’s irony. When others do it, it’s insensitivity or worse.

Don’t you mean the opposite?

Well, Jacko, it seems your reading comprehension is quite limited. While TB hasn’t really commented on any other comments, I’ll stick with what I can infer. Let’s start with your first statement.

this post of yours stereotyping him as gay by his appearance is your revenge for him stereotyping you by your appearance

Stereotyping is never going to stop, because it’s a part of humanity; unless maybe your mentally challenged and don’t comprehend things in the same ways. Are you mentally challenged Jack? But people can raise their actions above their stereotypes, which apparently the gay individual couldn’t do. TB did not mention the ethnicity at all of the gay person, but I’m sure that most people assumed that it was white male. Did TB do or say anything negative or deragtory based on the stereotype? No. Did the gay person? Yes. Do you understand the ‘irony’? And no, it’s not like ‘tinny’ or ‘coppery’.

My conversation with the older black gentleman was paraphrased rather a huge drawn out essay. It happened a few weeks after 9/11, and the conversation lead from where I grew up, to that question. After several years off conversing with same person, all of sudden he want’s to know if I like the ‘US’? Please..it has nothing to do with “racial insight”. People are stupid when they are afraid, and it doesn’t matter what their background is;

because Amerikkkans are like that, right?

I’m an American, is that ok with you? And, yes, Americans of all backgrounds can be like that. Are we so pure?

so when me and mine

Who exactly are you talking about?

Maybe some remedial course could help out.

Bitter memories of the lady at the New Orleans drivers’ licensing office who insisted on seeing my passport as formal proof of identification because my as-yet-valid Wisconsin DL wasn’t enough? Of course, the maraschino on top (in keeping with the fruit motif of this first Turbanhead post) was her proclamation that it didn’t matter that I have a US passport, “you weren’t born here, so you’re not a citizen.”

And how would this matter for my authorization to drive in the state of Louisiana? Also, ever heard of naturalization, you dullard?

They pick the brightest crayons out of the rejects box for these jobs. Then again, would you want such employment?

I’ve seen your attitude often. You point to the queen and the security guard and say “racially insensitive”.

You point to turbanhead and say “irony”. You assume that a elderly black man was “part of the civil rights movement” and that obviously he meant “the US” and not the building/neighborhood, and I guess on your part that’s just being “racially insightful”, because Amerikkkans are like that, right?

So when me and mine do it, it’s irony. When others do it, it’s insensitivity or worse.

There is a difference here that I don’t think you are understanding. TB was describing how this big queen looked, but not how he predicated his actiongs towards him based on those looks. Where as the ‘big queen’ not only verbalised his stereotyping, but also the formed disparaging actions along with it — although more than likely because most government workers seem to hate everyone.

I live in a predominately HUGE gay neighborhood, and I have a lot of gay neighbors. Not only are they out, but often talk amongst themselves as big queens, girls or even faggots. Not only that but many of them would prefer that you refer to them in this manor.

I’ve met many people straight, gay, bi, pink, purple, brown, white, black, etc..it doesn’t matter if they are a minority or group that has been discriminated or persecuted; indidividuals can and will be assholes regardless of it; To prove my point, I have several black security guards in apartment building. There was one who was well into his sixties or seventies, and for the life of me, I could never really understand what he said at times. One day he had come up to make sure that the thermostat was working correctly. As I’m sitting there going through my mail and making small chit chat, he say’s “So how do you like it here?” Here did not mean building, neighberhood, town, or city. I knew exactly what he meant, and he meant the US. How galling is that when, I’ve lived here for over thirty years, and speak perfect american english (slang and all) to be asked such a question, from someone who most likely was part of the civil rights movement.

Now I wasn’t at the scene, but if Turbanhead’s describing this correctly, he was out and proud.

Some people have a weird view of stereotyping– you want to avoid inaccurate generalizations about a group which play to the conventional wisdom.

It isn’t stereotyping if it’s about an individual, and it’s true. To call a spade a spade isn’t just correct, it’s your duty.