#2. Spontaneously Bringing up Slavery
There is nothing more comforting (well, there’s hearing the comedy of Paul Mooney) than helping some uneducated person from another race realize that without your ancestors there wouldn’t be an America. Rubbing it in their face provides black people with extreme pleasure! Especially when, among other things, white people have history in the clutches of their expensive sandwich eating claws. Our partners at stuff-white-people-like should think about placing this on their list #99. Pretending Slavery Didn’t Happen. It allows them to maintain, in addition to their color-blindness, historical-blindness also. And, bringing up Slavery also gets white people to uncomfortably change the subject to something stupid. It will probably be about Quantum Physics or Moleskin notebooks.
How nerve racking is it (being black) to hear about the first white guy to sleep in the “White House” ( apparently America doesn’t give credit where it is due) and not hear about the people who built it. That’s like hearing about the patriots, with no reference to Bill Belichick. Without his coaching talents where would the Patriots be? I know your getting the bigger picture here.
The next time, your the only Black person around, which in these days could only happen in Starbucks, College, or New England, take pride in the fact that slaves of African descent built the best and safest country in the world…under the auspices of extraterrestrial religious fanatics(opinions subject to change if Paul McCain has his way!) We also have reason to believe that they also built chiseled Mt. Rushmore. Do your own research.
