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I am White TRASH but not racist!
I’m racially insensitive - and proud of it. I came to this realization as a result of conflicting accusations against me.  I try to speak frankly and honestly. I have thus been sometimes accused of being “racist” and also of being “racially insensitive” – sometimes in regard to the same piece of writing. My main point here will be to argue that those two things are precise opposites.

"Racism” involves prejudicially judgingpeople based on their ethnic background, their genetics rather than their individual choices and behavior. This is wrong not just because it hurts people’s feelings, but because it is inaccurate. You may think that the Irish are a bunch of drunks - but there are certainly many Irishmen who would never touch a drink. It’s inaccurate and inexcusably lazy not to differentiate.

But please do not confuse me for someone who is politically correct. A lot of the problem of racism comes because there is a great deal of factual merit to many stereotypes. For lots of reasons, there clearly are racial patterns to human behavior, and you can’t miss that. Some of them are bad and negative, some are very positive, some are more neutral or benign. Some are very strong, some are more marginal or weak. Also, it's easy to conjure up evidence of patterns just because we expect to find them - which is where things start getting insidious.

You can’t honestly be unaware of racial or ethnic behavior patterns, and it’s another kind of intellectual laziness to try to pretend them away. But it is better in the practice and far more accurate to consciously discount them as much as possible in favor of specific observed personal behavior. You’d do far better by other people and have a truer view of the world if you choose to dismiss assumptions or guesses about such things unless there is some needful reason. A cabbie might have to make a split second decision on picking up a potentially dangerous fare, but you can be far more discriminating and take your time in deciding what to think about a co-worker you’re around every day based on what you see them individually doing.

You can try to be empathetic and nice, but you’re going to inevitably hurt tender and sometimes dysfunctional sensibilities if you’re not anticipating and catering to them, but instead actively discounting them. If you’re not tippy-toeing around someone on the assumption that they might likely decide to childishly get their little feelings hurt over any possible perception of offense, then you’re going to step on a few toes.
 
That can be very good though - no pain, no gain. It’s infantilizing people to indulge such things, treating them like children who can’t be expected to handle regular frank adult conversation. It increases the separation and sense of not belonging, as someone gets the correct perception that people are not being open and honest with them. In my own experience, I’d ten times rather someone absolutely directly insult me than patronize me with "polite" silence or saying what they think I want to hear, like I can’t handle the truth.

Whereas assuming that people of other ethnic backgrounds are intelligent and reasonable adults to be talked to normally minimizes such things. Axl Foley was raising hell like that in the Beverly Hills hotel because he figured correctly that it would get him the room he wanted. The correct answer at that point would have been for the hotel to have security toss the fool out on the sidewalk. If such things didn’t work, you wouldn’t get them nearly so much - and we’d all be better off.


So then, we should all try to discount race as much as reasonably possible. Also to the end of making that easier, we should all try not to embody the worst stereotypes of our people. Then we can all join hands and sing "Kum-Ba-Frickin-Yah" and, as John Prine would say, we’ll forgive each other till we both turn blue, then we’ll whistle and have a beer and go fishing in heaven

Tags: Bloggingventing

The bite of the vampire,
vicious, insane.

The blood dripping down,
upon my frame.

The years I do see are gone.
So am I.

I try to scream but afraid.
All I do is cry.

I plead for my life,
as I feel I am becoming one of them.

A vicious vampire,
my life filled with sin.

Now I can feel hungry.
Now I can feel blood.
As it rushes, rushes through my veins.

I am the Vampires Bite, Insane.

Tags: Blogging

My warm blood drained
from my body, as
he sunk his teeth
into my flesh.

I felt so alive, as
if I could fly.
A full moon shone brightly
into his deep dark eyes.

A drop of blood dripped
from his lips, and
he smiled at me gently
as life surged through me.

He rescued me from hell
and lead me through the
portal to heaven,
I am strong now.

Tags: Blogging

 

stare into my reflection
and the spell that it casts
instantaneous seduction
from a world of the past

recognized submission
and the loss of control
so vicious with an attitude
I come for your soul !

solidified aggression
with a passionate thrust
frozen momentarily
as vampire dust ....

so slowly it surrounds
alive and awake
a darkened mist a fog
that bites like snake -

surrender all that's known
becoming one with night
with a unrelenting afterglow
come forth and take flight !

intense anticipation
to grasp and take hold
such lustful dark desire
about to unfold ....

a brand new awakening
as their spirits will roam
in a darkened underworld
they will claim as their own ....

becoming one together
to hold and to trust
eternally forever
as vampire dust

Tags: Bloggingsad

In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.

But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet

Tags: Poemshorrer

Tags: Horrorblogging

1. Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true". Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit", does not actually make it true.
   
2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin. If you are hellbent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please see: http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have." That's "none" as in "zero". Not even your friend's cousin.
   
3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at: http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.
   
4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate co-workers and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a lightbulb
   
5. Even if the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
   
6. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with virii. Try: http://www.norton.com . And even then, don't forward it. We don't care.
   
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, you're probably going to Hell.
   
8. If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
   
9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the ">" that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many times - I've probably already seen it.
   
10. Jessica Mydek in the USA & Craig Shergold in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either.
    
11. That picture going around of 2 supposed Mig 29's being shot down over Kosovo is actually 1 of 2 Mikoyan Mig-29 'Fulcrums' at RAF Fairford's International Air Tattoo on 24 July 1993 which collided during an aerobatic display. The picture in question is one of the Migs piloted by Sergei Tresvyatski which seconds before was sliced in half behind the cockpit by the left wing of the other Mig-29. Both pilots ejected and survived.

Tags: Funny

I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. So anyway, one day he went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over. When he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN and he saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" But he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to save us from Armageddon when the year 2000 rolls around. His program will prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute Gates. (It's true -- I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disneyworld vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital-the one, actually, where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to twenty people you will have good luck but ten people will only have OK luck and if you send it to less than ten people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS). So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving along without his lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. And it's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages.

Tags: Funny

• You can live without sex but not without glasses.
  
• Your back goes out more than you do.
  
• You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.
  
• Your best friend is dating someone half their age...and isn't breaking any laws.
  
• You sing along with the elevator music.
  
• You would rather go to work than stay home sick.
  
• You constantly talk about the price of gasoline.
  
• You consider coffee one of the most important things in life.
  
• You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
  
• Neighbors borrow your tools.
  
• People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?"
  
• You're asleep, but others worry that you're dead.
  
• You answer a question with, "because I said so!"
  
• The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants.
  
• You take a metal detector to the beach.
  
• You wear black socks with sandals.
  
• You know what the word "equity" means.
  
• You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television.
  
• Your ears are getting hairier than your head.
  
• You get into a heated argument about pension plans.
  
• You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize.

Tags: Funny