Posted on 01/01/2016 4:29:01 PM PST by Nachum
I met my new roommates on Craigslist. Two white, one Chinese. Together we represented Portland, Florida, China and (with me) D.C., and as we moved into our apartment in Bed-Stuy last fall, I was excited for the potential of cross-cultural exchange.
We had a get-to-know you powwow on the rooftop. We talked about ourselves, what brought us to New York. It was a warm evening in September, a couple of weeks after Michael Brown was shot, and somewhere in the mix I brought up Ferguson, hoping to spark a âconscious conversation.â Then it happened. The nightmarish response.
âWhatâs happening in Ferguson?â one of my white roommates asked. âI heard some kid got shot or something like that.â
The words clamored in my ears. How could he not know? Werenât his Twitter, Instagram and Facebook feeds flooded with opinions and hashtags? Iâm sure he meant nothing by his statement. Weâre all ill-informed from time to time. But as I stood there, awkwardly not saying a word â while hundreds of words ran through my head â it was a reminder of how much I would have to suppress in order to get along with my white male roommates in our tiny four-bedroom apartment. This place I would call my home for a year.
It hasnât always been like this for me. Iâm a girl with a fro, raised in the place once known as âChocolate City.â I grew up part of a black nuclear family, was home-schooled, then became part of of the mini-Historic Black College Experience at Temple University. After arriving in New York, I became an intern at Essence, a magazine so safe I likened my boss to an aunt. Those settings were as comfortable as my grandmaâs cooking on any given Sunday.
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Read the entire article. Every word of it screams her ignorance, racism, craziness and hatred. Every line is racist. She dreads having to explain to her roommates which singers she likes.
This insane woman claims to want cross-cultural exchanges. She went to a protest and considers it racist that her roommates asked her about it.
These are insane racists and they are dangerous. Btw woman, the whole premise of your article -Ferguson- is racist bull crap.
I can almost guarantee you she would have a lot more trouble getting along with 3 “black guys”.
A powwow? I thought she was black, not Cree. She ought to be ashamed of herself, appropriating another culture like that.
Year end article....I remember this whinefest from a couple months ago.
Trump can’t get elected fast enough.
Just go with the fiance and how great she is. Try not to force the two families together too much. I think a lot of the family problems through marriage would do better if the two parental couples stayed pretty separate, only joining up when absolutely necessary. I’ve witnessed some marriages where they jolly-forced a lot of togetherness between the two families and it just doesn’t work. Best to spend holidays etc separately and join up only for those events like the grandchildren’s birthdays or sports. For some reason, those marriages have less trouble between inlaws.
Congrats to your boy. Hope all goes well for a lifetime.
Guess what? Many of us do not give a damn about some thug being taken out with the taxpayer relief shot.
God,do these people ever just SHUT UP !
She might want to model herself after her Chinese roommate,also a minority.
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preview the results.
She got a column out of it by revealing that she was the only one there who was so obsessed with race that she was disappointed when the others there were not. Their phones were not lighting up over a manufactured issue that they did not relate to. The horror.
Michael Brown is not about injustice, unless you mean the injustices perpetrated upon the multitude of business owners and employees out a job, the homeowners with declining real estate values, and the other true victims of the victimhood lobby, not to mention a police officer out a career.
Don't let the do and the tan fool you, she's just another snowflake, well microaggressed.
Nope. It’s one of those “10 best articles of 2015” features or something like that.
Ah, OK, I missed a step. Thanks.
She isn’t the only one tired of suppressing how they feel about other people.
I read the whole thing. The black girl is a racist. Pure and simple. She notes the ignorance of the white males about black issues that matter to her, and thinks the whites are to blame for not feeling her pain. When in reality, she is bonding with the black issues as a supreme importance simply because of her skin color. She can’t see beyond her own skin color. Racist black.
Thank you for your kind thoughts and well wishes.
POWWOW...REALLY??? that GOT to be some kine of micro aggression or hate speech or raciss statement i'm sure.
this thing should get it's SJW membership card revoked and kicked out of their prissy little movement ASAP
Why would a racist ever agree to sharing an apartment with people she has macroaggression for?
You can remove each slanted ‘ or “ and type in a vertical ‘ or “ from you keyboard
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Wow...sorry to ear it. I’m married to a latina lady for some 20 years now but she’s hard core conservative Christian. Big difference between what I read and what I experience daily. I don’t know how they avoid a conflict where we have never had one. Seriously, we’ve never had a “fight” ever.
Where does Salon find these idiots?
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