My rebellious act of the week.

LikeAnOcean
LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
edited April 2010 in A Moving Train
I got the census and for "race" I checked off "other" and wrote "human".


What is race really? How is it important?.. If we keep dividing people into groups based on appearances, how are we ever going to get rid of racism?

Do we really need to keep track of how many blacks, whites, mexicans, hybrids, vulcans there are?..

Fucking governent doesn't need to know how much pigment I have in my skin.
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    I largely agree with you ... People still seem obsessed with the construct. You still have the bona fide racist elements in society, and you also have the people that have to write news reports every other week about the "changing demographic" in the US and Canada. If somehow all this focus could be channelled into a respect for and appreciation of cultural differences, it wouldn't bother me. Instead, though, its all about various combinations of fear-mongering, political correctness, and polarization. No one in the mainstream culture even feels comfortable talking about race (unless behind closed doors). At the end of the day, who gives a shit? There are more meaningful ways to categorize people. I am a mutt, like most people in North America. Good enough. I can take some pride in my heritage, which according to some is all about my genotype. Um, no. Culture is about creating shared meanings, and who cares what I look like (super pale) or how much Native Canadian ancestry I have (more than some of my darker-skinned cousins).
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I got the census and for "race" I checked off "other" and wrote "human".


    What is race really? How is it important?.. If we keep dividing people into groups based on appearances, how are we ever going to get rid of racism?

    Do we really need to keep track of how many blacks, whites, mexicans, hybrids, vulcans there are?..

    Fucking governent doesn't need to know how much pigment I have in my skin.

    damn, that's some hard core shit....

    what was your rebellious act last week...?
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    rebornFixer wrote:
    I largely agree with you ... People still seem obsessed with the construct. You still have the bona fide racist elements in society, and you also have the people that have to write news reports every other week about the "changing demographic" in the US and Canada. If somehow all this focus could be channelled into a respect for and appreciation of cultural differences, it wouldn't bother me. Instead, though, its all about various combinations of fear-mongering, political correctness, and polarization. No one in the mainstream culture even feels comfortable talking about race (unless behind closed doors). At the end of the day, who gives a shit? There are more meaningful ways to categorize people. I am a mutt, like most people in North America. Good enough. I can take some pride in my heritage, which according to some is all about my genotype. Um, no. Culture is about creating shared meanings, and who cares what I look like (super pale) or how much Native Canadian ancestry I have (more than some of my darker-skinned cousins).

    I'm essentially a northern european mutt, but that's what, 10,000 years family influence in a million years of human existance?.. as far as culture goes, I would classify myself as Chicagoan or Midwesterner. There's definite American cultural diffences in the U.S., starting with the accents.
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I got the census and for "race" I checked off "other" and wrote "human".


    What is race really? How is it important?.. If we keep dividing people into groups based on appearances, how are we ever going to get rid of racism?

    Do we really need to keep track of how many blacks, whites, mexicans, hybrids, vulcans there are?..

    Fucking governent doesn't need to know how much pigment I have in my skin.


    +1

    Godfather.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    inmytree wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I got the census and for "race" I checked off "other" and wrote "human".


    What is race really? How is it important?.. If we keep dividing people into groups based on appearances, how are we ever going to get rid of racism?

    Do we really need to keep track of how many blacks, whites, mexicans, hybrids, vulcans there are?..

    Fucking governent doesn't need to know how much pigment I have in my skin.

    damn, that's some hard core shit....

    what was your rebellious act last week...?
    I drove the wrong way up a one way street.. on purpose.

    8-)
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I got the census and for "race" I checked off "other" and wrote "human".


    What is race really? How is it important?.. If we keep dividing people into groups based on appearances, how are we ever going to get rid of racism?

    Do we really need to keep track of how many blacks, whites, mexicans, hybrids, vulcans there are?..

    Fucking governent doesn't need to know how much pigment I have in my skin.

    damn, that's some hard core shit....

    what was your rebellious act last week...?
    I drove the wrong way up a one way street.. on purpose.

    8-)

    I want to party with you sometime... ;)
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I got the census and for "race" I checked off "other" and wrote "human".


    What is race really? How is it important?.. If we keep dividing people into groups based on appearances, how are we ever going to get rid of racism?

    Do we really need to keep track of how many blacks, whites, mexicans, hybrids, vulcans there are?..

    Fucking governent doesn't need to know how much pigment I have in my skin.

    This is exactly what I was trying to say in the Census thread. I totally agree.

    Plus - what is the definition of each race? And aren't we all of mixed race at this point anyway?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,431
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I drove the wrong way up a one way street.. on purpose.

    8-)


    haha, i went to the post office last week and there was a number ticket dispenser with a sign that said "take a number"....i took three of them, fight the power...

    :lol:
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    You can answer that Race question anyway you see fit. The definition is how you identify yourself. 'Human' works... you can put 'Martian' if you want. You will just be counted as an 'Other'.
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    inmytree wrote:

    I want to party with you sometime... ;)
    :lol:
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Lighten up Francis :lol:
    inmytree wrote:
    I want to party with you sometime... ;)
    CONservative governMENt

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    know1 wrote:
    This is exactly what I was trying to say in the Census thread. I totally agree.

    Plus - what is the definition of each race? And aren't we all of mixed race at this point anyway?

    dunno... but last night i had a little black in me. 8-)
    hear my name
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I got the census and for "race" I checked off "other" and wrote "human".


    What is race really? How is it important?.. If we keep dividing people into groups based on appearances, how are we ever going to get rid of racism?

    Do we really need to keep track of how many blacks, whites, mexicans, hybrids, vulcans there are?..

    Fucking governent doesn't need to know how much pigment I have in my skin.

    Don't tell that to an Israeli. It would undermine the whole justification for their psuedo-country.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I haven't brushed or combed my hair in years.

    Always gives the barber something to look forward to. :P
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    catefrances wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    This is exactly what I was trying to say in the Census thread. I totally agree.

    Plus - what is the definition of each race? And aren't we all of mixed race at this point anyway?

    dunno... but last night i had a little black in me. 8-)


    Only a little? I'm sorry.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Lighten up Francis :lol:
    inmytree wrote:
    I want to party with you sometime... ;)

    I thought that party line was from that movie... :lol::D

    Peace
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    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    unsung wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    This is exactly what I was trying to say in the Census thread. I totally agree.

    Plus - what is the definition of each race? And aren't we all of mixed race at this point anyway?

    dunno... but last night i had a little black in me. 8-)


    Only a little? I'm sorry.

    :D:lol: I was going to say something like that. :D

    My defiant act....I reused my sweet iced tea cup for the 4th from McD's the only thing I buy from the place.
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    unsung wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    This is exactly what I was trying to say in the Census thread. I totally agree.

    Plus - what is the definition of each race? And aren't we all of mixed race at this point anyway?

    dunno... but last night i had a little black in me. 8-)


    Only a little? I'm sorry.

    :lol:

    he was short. ;)8-)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Lighten up Francis :lol:
    inmytree wrote:
    I want to party with you sometime... ;)

    damn, I love that movie...
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    catefrances wrote:

    :lol:

    he was short. ;)8-)


    That reminds me of a line someone once said, "they call me tuna can, I might not be able to hit the back but I can sure F up the sides."

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