tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post5875025065216841091..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: PR: Pride, ResistanceBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-49509015384725035982018-06-12T09:05:34.657-04:002018-06-12T09:05:34.657-04:00i have a sister in law who is a nuyorican, now liv...i have a sister in law who is a nuyorican, now living in texas - she has 'skin the color mocha' - one of her daughters is the same color she is, the other is as white as all of her completely european-descent relatives - this daughter, my niece, has on her facebook page a picture of herself (a blonde - natural blonde when young, possibly augmenting her blondness now that she is over 30), her mother the mulatta, and her abuela, obviously african in ancestry - pointing out proudly "i am NOT adopted" - when her mother would take her out in her baby carriage passers-by would assume she was the nanny, not the mother - so it goes - walking in to restaurants with our family group i have seen sudden waves of disapproval of our integrated gathering pass over the faces of diners already there - admittedly this was in the south a couple decades ago<br /><br />maybe the revival of racism in the 21st century will fade as people get used to a more obviously mixed country - and older people leave the scene - or maybe not<br /><br />chris hedges quotes w e b dubois on what american white people have been like for a long time<br /><br />https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-second-sight-of-w-e-b-du-bois/<br /><br />history happens - you got to live it, or live with it, and eventually get out of the waymistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-49162821213715500592018-06-10T10:23:27.817-04:002018-06-10T10:23:27.817-04:00What happened in the after math of the hurricane i...What happened in the after math of the hurricane in Puerto Rico is yet another horrible black mark on our history. We just keep allowing this crap - being inhumane and allowing the government to treat groups of people in inexcusable ways again and again.<br /><br />I hope things change, but it looks like we manage to find yet another way to treat people horribly even years after we admit that the old things we did, way back when, might have been bad. Harry Hamidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13176265571549991218noreply@blogger.com