Thanks Elizabeth. Just a quick note to say that this email got caught up in moderation, because Elizabeth isn't a member of the list (non-mailing list subscribers are pre-moderated by mailman), and was actually written on Wednesday, in answer to that particular flamewar. Probably worth bearing in mind if anyone else wants to rekindle the whole email discussion again. Sorry, I missed this one earlier in the moderation.<br>
<br>Ever Falling is still in moderation. The last email he tried to send to the list was a lovely picture of a person in blackface. I'm not quite sure what he meant by that, but it still wasn't a kissy noise, so he's still there.)<br>
<br>d.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Elizabeth Hubbard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emhubbard28@gmail.com" target="_blank">emhubbard28@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I am going to address this now, albeit tired of this
conversation.<span> </span>Some dude has a
racist tattoo, and my husband goes to say something to him.<span> </span>First, he talks to an intelligent guy
whose already talked to the man, though, and a person who is pretty much the
opposite of a bigot.<span> </span>This guy says
that the man is not a white supremacist and was forced to get those
tattooes.<span> </span>My husband takes him at
face value, because they’re both good people with no reason to lie.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then, this group-think-tank says, “Oh, no, that guy has to
go,” and my husband, who was raised by a very nice old black guy that used to
be in the Marines, took up for him because he had been forced to get those
tattooes, which were now just an unfortunate part of his appearance.<span> </span>And so the group think tank calls my
husband a racist, which is laughable, but kind of the same as calling a person
an asshole.<span> </span>I didn’t marry an
asshole, a racist, or a sexist, and any insinuations otherwise is likely a case
of regionalism, which is like racism, but, as you’ve probably guessed by now,
against people from differing regions.<span>
</span>Is it scary to see such a smart person from such a stereotypically dumb
part of the world?<span> </span>I wouldn’t
know; I’m also a great deal smarter than I’d let on, and from the same part of
the world.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>We are not proud of our southern heritage.<span> </span>We grew up in a racist part of the
world, but you would have to be an idiot to be a racist where we are from,
because white people are in the minority there.<span> </span>(Granted, there are some idiots there; we just don’t
fall into that demographic.) We’re not idiots and we are not racists, so maybe
the ignorami suggesting it could just shut the fuck up and go read some books past Dr. Seuss.<span> </span>And stop throwing homeless people out;
it’s tacky.<span> </span>It’s like holding up a
sign that says, “I’m a bad person who doesn’t give a shit that you have no roof
over your head.”<span> </span>Or holding up a
sign that says, “I’m racist against poor people.”<span> </span>Or, “I’m a classist fucktard, and if I had lived during the
French Revolution, somebody would have beheaded me by now.”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And for the record, there are many forms of racism, and, as a mixed person who looks white, I got to see a whole spectrum of it, and I wouldn't have married my husband is he was foolish enough to be a part of that.</p>
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