Tirade

So let's talk about today's adventure. This is my blog, so if you don't like the following, get your own.

It REALLY REALLY annoys me when people think that they are the ONLY ONES who are entitled to be obnoxious or have their own opinion. Furthermore, it really bugs me when they would rather demean your response patterns than discuss the issue, because they know
1) They can never win [if changing your mind is their goal]
2) They realize the futility of their arguments.



Well, it stands to reason, that if you want to start an argument or discuss something controversial, you should limit the frame of reference and audience to those with whom you'd like to discuss it. [Most of you remember the Jeff McCain/Jake Roseberry e-mail circulations of 2004??] If you don't want to have a discussion with more than one person on an issue, a market place of ideas if you will [props to John Stuart Mill, the man was pretty smart u know?], THEN DON'T SEND AN EMAIL TO A BUNCH OF PEOPLE. You start the discussion, you pick the audience, you have infinate prep time. You don't want them to hear my reply - YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE INCLUDED THEM IN THE CONVERSATION. PERIOD.

Bugs me, just bugs me.

Furthermore, you want to make me read e-mails about how we should all be so quick to reply to your original e-mails, and you want to start the incinuation that one of your friends is doing well to pay you more attention, then you best be ready for a reply. It's not obnoxious or evil - it's in jest - the same as your original statement. DON'T tell me how upset someone else is because of my response - they have a problem - let them come and talk to me.

Bugs me, just bugs me.

So u know what, to those of you who are concerned with this, I'm sorry if you're upset about my attempt to continue your own conversation patterns, and I'm sorry if it embarrasses you to have my reply circulated amongst those who were privy to the original conversation. If it truly is a problem, then I'm sorry becuase I don't like confrontation and I definately don't like to upset my friends. Sorry. I'm sorry because it upset you. But don't misunderstand me, my interpretation still stands.

Finally, I think I've had enough of this conversation period. I won't change my mind on race relations and that's it. Am I closed-minded - maybe. Or maybe, closed-mindedness is the assumption that just because I'm a first generation american I have to think a certain way, and that I have to join some over-inflated, self-important, underground minority revoltuion. Closed-mindedness is a double standard that only I can care about my being hispanic, or black, or native american, or Irish, but if anyone else does - WATCH OUT!! DARN THOSE RACISTS! Close mindedness comes from saying that only I can make deroggatory comments about my ethnic group, but OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN'T LIKE ME can't. Close-mindedness is saying racisim is bad and evil without recognizing that every time I group people into "white people" as a category and decide they are all the same and all against me, I am practicing the worst kind of racism there is : the kind with a double standard that only goes to display my ignorance and willingness to incite passion in the minds of others. Real closed-mindedness is when I am allowed and even encouraged to associate myself with people who are the same color as me or the same ethnic group as me because that means they are like me and will be my friends - by my "own people"! And then, as a group, we decry segregation. Ironic, isn't it?

Finally, closed-mindedness is that perception that all statistical minorities which do NOT subscribe to the idea that oppression is huge and alive today in all aspects of life, and that outrage is the answer are sell-outs, dumb, or "missing the point". I think it is you who miss the point, oh race-monger. Untill you quit telling everyone what color you are, and how important that is to who you are, no one will be able to forget, because YOU won't let them. The only reason your race, heritage or ethnic group works against you is because YOU DEMAND THAT IT DOES. Let them be and they'll let you be. And if you can't, let me be. Because I'm very busy relying on other dictators of my fortune, because I don't believe in fortune, and I don't believe in chance. Life isn't fair, or didn't you get the memo? I'll get you another copy. But I'll tell you something, it's unfair TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, ALL AROUND THE WORLD. And until you are being forced to work as a prostitute at the age of 9 with 15 customers a day, I don't want to hear about it, ok?

So what, the lady at the Minnessotta airport wanted to know my country of origin, and so what if she didn't believe me when I told her America? Yah, that sux. And yah, it angers me and hurt my feelings. But you know what, she did it to protect this country from threats from abroad, and I'm darn lucky to sit in my house and tell you on my brand new iMac over broadband internet al about it, and not get thrown in prison. Shoot, I'm lucky to be INSIDE instead of UNDER A TREE like my dad was when he was little in Mexico before he came here. Let me give you a piece of advice, it's stupid to come to America to continue to live in Mexico. So don't come here to live in your own prison, and then complain to me about it. When you quit oppressing women and other statistical minorities or unpopular groups with your DAILY speech patterns, music choices, and consumption patterns, you can give me a call. Untill then, muse to someone else, because I'm busy working in America, dreaming in America, thankful to live in America.