Bullshit. Period.
Hmm... If our administration would like to turn this into a trend of sorts, I am seriously worried about my opportunities for graduate school funding.
Seriously though. With all the "Grand Crusades" that could be undertaken by the Justice Department, why does it seem that Affirmitive Action is the main target? Why isn't war being waged upon institutionalized racism at corporate and federal levels? And why, exactly, is this so much of a hotbed issue?
Boggles the mind it does. I'm so close I can taste it, and I won't let anything get in my way.
Hmm... If our administration would like to turn this into a trend of sorts, I am seriously worried about my opportunities for graduate school funding.
Seriously though. With all the "Grand Crusades" that could be undertaken by the Justice Department, why does it seem that Affirmitive Action is the main target? Why isn't war being waged upon institutionalized racism at corporate and federal levels? And why, exactly, is this so much of a hotbed issue?
Boggles the mind it does. I'm so close I can taste it, and I won't let anything get in my way.
Re: the racist joke thing -- what happens to me a lot is that I'll be the only minority in a small group of people, and somebody will start non-ironically cracking racist jokes, and eventually they'll get to Asian or Latino or Native American jokes, and then a light bulb goes off somewhere in the collective brain and people start stealing sidelong glances at me to see if I'm offended. It's hilarious. Because I can totally see that they're not sure whether I'm in one of those groups or not, and it would be too awkward for them to ask, so they just kind of sit there and squirm while I pretend not to notice.
It hasn't happened recently (not since I was working in Alabama, in fact...) but I was reminded of this when I watched the trailer to the new Sarah Silverman movie.