I guess I’m older than most of you guys, I grew up in Normal Heights. At the time a White/Caucasian neigborhood. (Think Leave it to Beaver, My Three Sons, Gilligan’s Island) I think there were two Philipino families. I’m Chinese and Dutch (first generation immigrant). No Asians/Orientals or Blacks/African Americans when I was growing up. Our jokes were Polish or Italian jokes. In high school I met my first BLacks/African Americans and Mexican/Hispanic/Latinos. The jokes were now Polish, Italian, Mexican, White and Black.
None where considered racist, just funny. I think that the human mind likes to simplify and categorize. Comes from way back – tribal times. “I can trust members of my tribe but not their tribe, I don’t know who they are” It is a lot easier to deal with different cultures if you have a general/generic definition of them. Like a previous poster said “how am I supposed to learn everything that every culture finds offensive (and do i really care?). I remeber when Vietnamese first started to immagrate. they were picked on by everyone. Now they are just part of the San Diego population. And yes Orientals and Latino’s are very very racist. Every culture thinks they are beter than any other. It a national/cultural pride thing. I say get over it. Take it in context. If the racial slurs was meant as a personal attack defend yourself. If it was an ‘off color’ joke(is that a racist comment??) than laugh if it was funny.
We all knew this race card would be played once Obama got elected. I think it is being used to distract us from the real issues we are facing. Divide and conquer. During the Bush administration they used the 9/11 distraction create DHS to enact laws that took away our freedoms. ??shampoo bottles are deadly weapons unless you put them in a ziplock bag?? WTF?? Obama’s administration is using the economic distraction to take our money and more freedoms.
