I hate MLK day

We didn't go to school on MLK Day.

my office will not be closed, shocker

we'd usually have an assembly the friday before... Elmo do you remember the assembly when we were divided up by religion, ethnicity etc? That was a GREAT idea. I distinctly recall there being an "agnostic" and an "earth-based" religion group but the word athiest was not used. Lynn Fucking r0s4r1o

diversity coordinator fuck u

At my school we used to have "cultural fests" like that. The last year they attempted one, they divided the whole school into small groups and assigned each to prepare a potluck in the custom of different ethnicities. Guess which group ended up presenting the school with fried chicken and watermelon? Way to go!

Yay for working in a not-for-profit!
Boo for getting paid not-for-profit wages.

The diversity coordinator got mad at me for being "racially insensitive" to a "person of color" because I jokingly patted a short Cambodian freshman kid who I was friendly with on the head. We had a talk... IN HER OFFICE.

I need to find the school newspaper article (9th grade) where I refer to a black staff member as "moving on up"

when i was in preschool all the kids were seperated by eye color on mlk day. since i was in the blue-eyed minority i got saltines and water and had to do math problems. brown eyed kids played and got candy.

we always had the mixed blood theater (mpls theater company) come down and this guy would do a one-man show about paul robeson. it was pretty good. everyone would walk around going "ooooooooold maaaaaaaahn reeeeeeee-vuh" all day afterward...one year the same guy did jackie robinson too.

xp: Was that some strange inversion of Haile Selassie's "War" speech?

the idea of a high school "diversity coordinator" boggles my old feeble mind.

On my freshman college orientation diversity day, I learned that black people think white people smell like dogs!

wau at crypto-bigotry all up in american treatment of mlk remembrance

IT WAS ALL A DREAM

So, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, my white friends are throwing a party today

just found out that said friend from ^^ thread once served Katrina Punch in which he floated raisins in the punch.

"friend"

"punch" in the face

this "friend" have an address?

think he moved to seattle recently

On my freshman college orientation diversity day, I learned that black people think white people smell like dogs!

-- sexyDancer, Friday, 18 January 2008 23:50 (3 minutes ago) Link

Asians smell like GARLIC

On Tuesday my town's City Council voted to officially rename Sixth Street (busiest commercially-zoned thoroughfare, bounds south side of University campus) to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. A petition of 71 businesses, headed by Wal-Mart, opposed the renaming.

WHICH WAY TO AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS

is it true that gingers smell like mayonnaise?

last ginger i was close enough to smell smelled like guiness
one before that smelled like gin and tonic

guinness

last ginger i was close enough to smell smelled like guiness
one before that smelled like gin and tonic

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 19 January 2008

have we met?

Are you a cougar at Union Pool or my ex-girlfriend's roommate?

A dots not feathers student told me white people smell like milk.

no school

alas, neither
cougars roam w'burg these days? not in my day
xxpost

a history of diversity coordinators from high school:

sr. year: the lady jw mentioned above

jr. year: the overbearing earnest guy who'd been raised the only black dude in an all white town and wanted to "have a good discuss" about everything. used the term "othering" nearly twice per sentence.

soph. year: Very Serious Woman Who Only Talked About Very Serious Issues. Terminal halitosis. Lots of dashiki with coordinated kofia hats. Think Lisa Bonet on the Cosby show, but forty-five, bitterly single, and with a bone to pick with anybody that'd listen.

freshman year:

one of the greatest people in the history of my life.

his last name was b14ckm4n, and he legally changed his middle name to "The." He had attended harvard and morehouse, he was also my english teacher. B14ckm4n sprung me from school for five days to bring me to a diversity conference in Baltimore, MD, where I got high and walked through a Wendy's drivethrough with this beautiful weird kid who talked with me for like six consecutive hours about his life and the meaning of existence before falling asleep and never talking to me again, and (years later) became a calvin klein underwear model.

when i was having tough days in school, b14ckm4n used to spring me from class to sit in his office and read dragonball manga and listen to digable planets and talk about amiri baraka.

writers he introduced me to @ age 14:

james baldwin
sterling brown
gabriel garcia marquez
le guin
cesar chavez
claude brown
chester himes
vargas llosa
iceberg slim
samuel delaney

also yeah, wtf jon?

wtf re waht

ex-rhody's will understand - I have to work on mlk day but we sure as shit have vj day off!

thread title is total trollbait, no matter what you intended.

edward: that used to be the busiest day @ the coffeeshop in narragansett.

thread title is total trollbait

noise

we, uh, didn't have school assemblies on mlk day because lol i'm old

I hate MLK Day
http://www.atlaswords.com/IMAGES%20108/Evan_Mecham%5B1%5D.jpg

On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa Conference taught, to those who will learn, this further lesson: That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil. – Haile Selassie I

i just remember in college going to a bank and they told me they would be closed on lee/jackson/king day. i asked the teller wtf lee/jackson/king day was and the teller had to explain it to me. i told her that was some dilutive racist shit, much worse than arizona and all the heat it was catching for refusing an mlk holiday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39DJqI8puV0

amiri baraka used to lead demonstrations in vacant lot next door to my childhood building in Newark where italian racists didn't want housing project built.

i just remember in college going to a bank and they told me they would be closed on lee/jackson/king day. i asked the teller wtf lee/jackson/king day was and the teller had to explain it to me. i told her that was some dilutive racist shit, much worse than arizona and all the heat it was catching for refusing an mlk holiday.

-- sanskrit, Saturday, January 19, 2008 3:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

hey nice job preaching at someone with absolutely no control over the situation

save-a-teller

i <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 amiri baraka. i wd. celebrate amiri baraka day if i could:

The popular white man's theatre like the popular white man's novel shows tired white lives, and the problems of eating white sugar, or else it herds bigcaboosed blondes onto huge stages in rhinestones and makes believe they are dancing or singing. WHITE BUSINESSMEN OF THE WORLD, DO YOU WANT TO SEE PEOPLE REALLY DANCING AND SINGING??? ALL OF YOU GO UP IN HARLEM AND GET YOURSELF KILLED. THERE WILL BE DANCING AND SINGING, THEN, FOR REAL!

lol n/a it was a jefferson national in a town i'd imagine you'd spent some time in.

isn't lee jackson king day strictly a Virginia thing?

in ninth grade, my world history teacher divided us up based on our racial background using the categories invented by the nazis. then we had to wear around armbands or tags showing which category we were part of. being irish/pre-revolution english immigrant/italian, i ended up being ordered to wear an SS armband for a week. my friend shepard was supposed to wear a star of david on his chest. we were supposed to fail the class for refusing but i only got a C-. i don't know what shepard got.

this was but one charred skeleton in the incinerator of that history class. the teacher is still there and on great terms with the principal.

i guess i was SS because i have blond hair and blue eyes, but my hair is curly so i don't know.

oh and it was supposed to be my job to make sure that all the jews and gypsies and fags (the teacher was gay so he could call them that) were wearing their tags outside of class, on the bus, etc. apparently i would get extra credit for everyone i turned in, and they would get Fs.

but we all really wanted to be at that school so there wasn't anything we could do. our parents couldn't do anything without screwing us. some serious bullshit but at least i could've gone to art school on a scholarship.

No school when at univeristy. I got to see the late Ossie Davis come to ann arbor for an MLK event and tell stories, which was awesome.

http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/Auxiliary/Psychology/Frank/Thirdwave.html

Dude we got HERMAN BOONE one year of "Remember the Titans" inspiration fame to talk at out backwoods high school in Idaho for MLK day, and another year we got Yo Murphy of the Baltimore Ravens (this bcz Yo Murphy's mom taught at my school. I was not particularly interested in football or a PG rated Disney inspirational sports film inspirer BUT a small town loves big names. Esp. when there are hardly any black people there to begin with. The vibe at the HS was definitely "wow see black people do not hate us!!!"

This is the town where my friend first saw a faamily of black people when she was ten (and exclaimed to her mom, "Look, mom, it's THE COSBYS!")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNvdLpLx-0

elan, that is the o_Oest thing i've ever read

lol n/a it was a jefferson national in a town i'd imagine you'd spent some time in.

-- sanskrit, Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:46 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

yeah and the blatant institutionalized racism is part of why i don't live there any more.

i think they have a combined MLK and General Lee day in Arkansas too.

ts: blatant institutionalized racism vs. garden-variety institutionalized racism

depends on how you feel about massive statues dedicated to confederate soldiers cluttering up your city's main drag, balanced out by one of arthur ashe (LOL)

albeit a terrifying one where it looks like ashe is about to go to town on some kids with a tennis racket

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9607/11/ashe/ashe.mem.large.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/11/ashe/location.jpg

wtf re: "don't beat me, daddy!" arthur ashe statue

i think they have a combined MLK and General Lee day in Arkansas too.

Why, yes, it does.

Except we're celebrating the car, not the Civil War guy.

LOL @ arthur ashe, ranting and violent about something. But hey, you know how those people get.

That goes on the short list with the Pat Tillman Statue or the Harry Caray statue of public art that's supposed to immortalize great people, but really just gives children nightmares.

yeah roxy... what to do.

The 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week at New York University
"Dare to D.R.E.A.M." (Deconstruct, Reflect, Envision, Act, and Mobilize)
www.nyu.edu/mlkweek

^ NICE ACRONYM GUYS http://www.13thsog.com/peace/emoticons/clap.gif

D.econstruction R.ules E.verything A.round M.e

- "Disaster, Race and American Politics: Katrina in the Classroom," featuring
a Faculty Panel and the MLK Ribbon Dream Ceremony on Tuesday, January 22 at
6pm, Shorin Auditorium in Kimmel.

^ not really sure what this has to do with "in the classroom"

ok maybe i should go see do the right thing and eat free pizza tho

extra cheese is two dollars

Deconstruct, Reflect, Envision, Act, and Mobilize

POLL

Subject: MLK Celebration Week at NYU: Over 50 events this week!

^ with the amount of money they waste on this shit they could endow like 30 scholarships but who am I kidding? The amount we spend on catering is probably like 1000x that.

working at a crappy temp job post 9/11. we're collating stacks of papers in a basement at 9pm or something. the foreman guy comes in to let us know that we won't be needed past tomorrow as the project is ending. after he leaves i somehow get do the right thing "Da Mayor" tourettes and shout in a perfect ossie davis impression "Why they got to take the bread.. out my baby's mouth?".

all the white people in the room drew a blank. this one old black guy who got the reference thought it was the funniest thing ever. the three other black guys more near my age glared at me and maybe wanted to kick my ass.

You should've wadded up some fiddies and thrown them at the foreman.

two fiddie, two fiddie a week