…but what the heck.
Uproar Over White Party Mocking Blacks (Original link: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jan30/0,4670,ClemsonParty,00.html)
Now, I’m not black. But perhaps someone can enlighten me as to just why it is that malt liquor is mocking blacks?
That’s right. We read in the article:
…white students mocked blacks by drinking malt liquor and at least one student wore black face.
I can understand the “black face” being possibly racist (of course, I would want to know why the student did this before just assuming s/he’s racist). But how is drinking malt liquor racist?
This ranks up there with the racism found in fried chicken and watermelon, two foods I enjoy to eat. I don’t get it.
Is it not possible that the black community in America is so hyper-sensitive that they assume everyone is racist against them without actually meeting the burden of proof? Indeed, I fear that is the case. And I know full well that this blog entry could be misconstrued as being racist because I dare to point it out.
I am not a racist. I never have been. A person’s ethnicity doesn’t even register with me when I speak with them.
Nor am I prejudiced. (And I should note that the difference between prejudism and racism is largely ignored today.) No, I am an apologist; what I am interested in is a person’s arguments not their race.
And I frankly cannot see how the argument that malt liquor, fried chicken, and watermelon being consumed by white “crackers” (which is another food I like, by the way) constitutes racism.
Perhaps someone can inform me as to why this would be the case. Because as far as I can tell, the people obsessed with race here are in the NAACP, not the picnicers.
