I really do despise people
So it's now fun for college students to play dress-up in gang-like attire and throw“ghetto” parties. It seems especially touching that this took place on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel. “I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance,” said Donald Ray Elder, president of the Stephenville school’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Photographs posted on social networking Web site Facebook.com showed partygoers wearing Afro wigs and fake gold and silver teeth. One photo showed students “mocking how African-Americans do step shows,” Elder said. In another picture, a student is dressed as Aunt Jemima and carries a gun. “That upsets me,” Elder said. “That’s someone who knows nothing about Dr. King, because Dr. King was totally about nonviolence.”
But this does bring up some other issues that I have casually mentioned to a variety of people; racism is becoming popular. This is due mainly because of the entire Middle Eastern-Arab-Muslim-Islamic-and for that matter any dark skinned person connection that they would have to terrorism- that Bush and buddies have been feeding you.
This constant harping of it's us vs. them to could very well be translated into a misguided attempt at justifying this kind of behavior by an average college student by saying: “Look it's not like we're calling people names or outwardly discriminating-we're just having harmless fun making fun of black people by picking stereotypes of blacks and then dressing up like them. And besides-look how the government took care of the people effected by Katrina-and because Fox news tells me that all Arabs are terrorists-and a lot of people don't want Mexicans-whoops, I mean illegal immigrants- to live or have rights in the US-and whites are privileged and any other minorities do not need to be treated with any dignity or respect.” Or something like that.
