greendiseaser
01-19-2008, 03:37 PM
This is anecdotal, but i thought it would serve as some encouragement.
Down here in 'ole Georgia I work late nights for a bank.
My boss (who is black) and I sometimes get to talking about politics. She doesn't follow it much, and often asks questions like "What is the major difference between Dems and Repubs" or "Obama, what's his thing? Whats he says he will do different?" or "Huckabee? Who is that?"
:D
ANYHOW.
I have mentioned Ron Paul to her before, and i said once that he would try to get rid of the income tax, make sound money of gold, abolish the Fed, privatize SS etc ... and she said, while talking to some other co-workers, "That Paul guy sounds pretty good."
YESTERDAY, politics came up again, and she said, "You know, your boy Ron Pauls name has come up while talking to my friends. A LOT OF MY FRIENDS SAID THEY REALLY LIKE HIM!" ...
I asked, just to confirm, "A lot of your friends? Black friends, right?" ... she said, "Yep." ... and i said, "A LOT?" ... she said, "Yep ... a bunch of them."
I told her, "Good, that's really encouraging. Because remember i told you the media was trying to smear him as a racist. That makes me really proud they see through it."
GOOD NEWS FOLKS.
:D
I know i know. This will die because its not "PAUL IS IN SECOND IN NEVADA"
Also,
here is a really funny racist bit that one of my black co-workers said ... rofl ... ok this is bad, but it cracked me up so bad ...
... i told you my boss isn't exactly politicaly literate ... neither are a lot of the other folks in my office ... so when it was just me, my boss and two others left in the office (all except me being black) ... they were all asking me about politics.
This was the day of the NH primaries ... and i kept going to the break room, and coming back, saying "Hillary is winning." or "Obama is winning", or whatever ...
They started asking me who was saying what, and what the difference between them was.
My male coworker (remember he is black himself!) says, "Hey, what is Obama saying? What is his message?" ... i said, "what do you mean? his message?" ... he said, "Yeah. You know. What is he promising?"
Then he follows with,
"I MEAN, IF OBAMA WINS, WILL THE PRICE OF FRIED CHICKEN FALL? Will we get our chicken cheaper if he wins? WHAT ABOUT CORN MUFFINS?"
Of course after some very cautious laughter, i threw in the
"Yeah, and he says FREE COLLARD GREENS FOR EVERYONE!"
All three of them errupted in to laughter. They thought it was funny as shit.
:rolleyes:
Down here in 'ole Georgia I work late nights for a bank.
My boss (who is black) and I sometimes get to talking about politics. She doesn't follow it much, and often asks questions like "What is the major difference between Dems and Repubs" or "Obama, what's his thing? Whats he says he will do different?" or "Huckabee? Who is that?"
:D
ANYHOW.
I have mentioned Ron Paul to her before, and i said once that he would try to get rid of the income tax, make sound money of gold, abolish the Fed, privatize SS etc ... and she said, while talking to some other co-workers, "That Paul guy sounds pretty good."
YESTERDAY, politics came up again, and she said, "You know, your boy Ron Pauls name has come up while talking to my friends. A LOT OF MY FRIENDS SAID THEY REALLY LIKE HIM!" ...
I asked, just to confirm, "A lot of your friends? Black friends, right?" ... she said, "Yep." ... and i said, "A LOT?" ... she said, "Yep ... a bunch of them."
I told her, "Good, that's really encouraging. Because remember i told you the media was trying to smear him as a racist. That makes me really proud they see through it."
GOOD NEWS FOLKS.
:D
I know i know. This will die because its not "PAUL IS IN SECOND IN NEVADA"
Also,
here is a really funny racist bit that one of my black co-workers said ... rofl ... ok this is bad, but it cracked me up so bad ...
... i told you my boss isn't exactly politicaly literate ... neither are a lot of the other folks in my office ... so when it was just me, my boss and two others left in the office (all except me being black) ... they were all asking me about politics.
This was the day of the NH primaries ... and i kept going to the break room, and coming back, saying "Hillary is winning." or "Obama is winning", or whatever ...
They started asking me who was saying what, and what the difference between them was.
My male coworker (remember he is black himself!) says, "Hey, what is Obama saying? What is his message?" ... i said, "what do you mean? his message?" ... he said, "Yeah. You know. What is he promising?"
Then he follows with,
"I MEAN, IF OBAMA WINS, WILL THE PRICE OF FRIED CHICKEN FALL? Will we get our chicken cheaper if he wins? WHAT ABOUT CORN MUFFINS?"
Of course after some very cautious laughter, i threw in the
"Yeah, and he says FREE COLLARD GREENS FOR EVERYONE!"
All three of them errupted in to laughter. They thought it was funny as shit.
:rolleyes: