on obama being "articulate"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020101495.html
(this is eugene robinson on joe biden making a remarkably ignorant comment about how obama doesn't speak ebonics like other black people do and isn't hopelessly dumb or dirty like them either)
i feel him (robinson that is). it kind of reminds me of an experience i had out in luray, WV - stopped at a 7-11 to run in and get some tylenol, and the girl at the counter seemed so weirdly happy to see me, and she asked where i was from (i was wearing hijab, but also a sweatshirt and athletic pants), and indicated that because of what was on my head she thought i was foreign, and she thought that would have been cool. so after this brief conversation, she told me, "you speak good american!" um, yes, she was white american.
she was sweet, so nice i almost feel bad telling this story. she was the epitome of southern hospitality despite utter ignorance, and i know that well because i was born and raised in fayetteville, nc.
anyway, so, yes, a brown girl with a foreign-looking thing on her head speaks good american, and a black man running for president is "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," according to joe biden. it's funny how we buck tradition like that!! standing out from the colored masses like we do.
(this is eugene robinson on joe biden making a remarkably ignorant comment about how obama doesn't speak ebonics like other black people do and isn't hopelessly dumb or dirty like them either)
i feel him (robinson that is). it kind of reminds me of an experience i had out in luray, WV - stopped at a 7-11 to run in and get some tylenol, and the girl at the counter seemed so weirdly happy to see me, and she asked where i was from (i was wearing hijab, but also a sweatshirt and athletic pants), and indicated that because of what was on my head she thought i was foreign, and she thought that would have been cool. so after this brief conversation, she told me, "you speak good american!" um, yes, she was white american.
she was sweet, so nice i almost feel bad telling this story. she was the epitome of southern hospitality despite utter ignorance, and i know that well because i was born and raised in fayetteville, nc.
anyway, so, yes, a brown girl with a foreign-looking thing on her head speaks good american, and a black man running for president is "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," according to joe biden. it's funny how we buck tradition like that!! standing out from the colored masses like we do.
posted by Ayesha | 10:12 AM
2 Comments:
Don't you love that. Another example of cluelessness manifesting itself in people's mouths before their brain can stop them. But it gives great insight into the inner workings of peoples brains!!! (Nothing going on up there!!!)
worse, i think it's an indication of how unfamiliar he is with un-waspy people. and he wants to preside over all of 'em.
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