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“omg, are you serious? how the EFF would you know that?!?!?!”
Because in every one of those generations there was someone who took careful notes. Unlike snappy’s ancestors [glares at snappy like she did something wrong]
I went to the brooklyn inn the other day and ordered an irish car bomb and the bartender gave me a big lecture about how insensitive that is, and I was all like “dick, you’re not even irish,” and so I went to Ceol and told the irish bartender there the story and he laughed and drank irish car bombs with me
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Just on my direct male lineage – My great great great great great great great great great great grandfather, Daniel [insert my last name here], came over from England in the late 1600s and settled near Bridgeport, CT. His sons Abner and Joab ended up in Northampton, Massachusetts. When the local council gave away plots of land in the hilltowns, they got their plot in the lottery and walked to it from Northampton with all of their possessions in a big cast iron pot they carried on a pole between them. That was the early 1700s. My sons are the first males in this particular line of men to not be born and raised in either Chester Massachusetts or Huntington Massachusetts.”
omg, are you serious? how the EFF would you know that?!?!?!
I see where you are coming from, Gem. And I agree. But one of the things we have to accept (when he’s here anyway) is that Benson is more sensitive than most. And that won’t be changing any time soon. I think also people tend to forget that we all, as you say, have a different personal truth. My experience with any one group of people may not match your experience, or the next person’s. That, however, doesn’t and shouldn’t take away from my truth, my experience, nor yours or anyone else’s. It’s a hard thing to remember, especially when tempers flare.
Personally, I think “race” is a totally man made cultural phenomenon. There is a huge scale of skin color, facial features, shoe size, whatever.”
Totally agree. I also think many aspects of gender “norms” are too, which is why women are also a protected class.
SOME white women hate to hear they are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action. I just kindly point them to the historical information on AA and remind them that next time they get huffy about some black person supposedly taking a spot they didn’t deserve, remember how many of them have also taken spots they allegedly didn’t deserve.
We wouldn’t need such policies if everything were equal, but things aren’. Oh well. Such is life, right?
“”Yall effing grabbed my people up, threw ’em on a boat and shipped ’em here. Can’t tell you the exact dates or where we landed because you all weren’t too interested back then on keeping copious notes on that kinda thing.””
Omg am dying – sorry, but that’s hilarious that you wrote that!
“omg, are you serious? how the EFF would you know that?!?!?!”
Because in every one of those generations there was someone who took careful notes. Unlike snappy’s ancestors [glares at snappy like she did something wrong]
LOL Pete, yep…I think they got it in 2 guesses or less 🙂
I went to the brooklyn inn the other day and ordered an irish car bomb and the bartender gave me a big lecture about how insensitive that is, and I was all like “dick, you’re not even irish,” and so I went to Ceol and told the irish bartender there the story and he laughed and drank irish car bombs with me
”
Just on my direct male lineage – My great great great great great great great great great great grandfather, Daniel [insert my last name here], came over from England in the late 1600s and settled near Bridgeport, CT. His sons Abner and Joab ended up in Northampton, Massachusetts. When the local council gave away plots of land in the hilltowns, they got their plot in the lottery and walked to it from Northampton with all of their possessions in a big cast iron pot they carried on a pole between them. That was the early 1700s. My sons are the first males in this particular line of men to not be born and raised in either Chester Massachusetts or Huntington Massachusetts.”
omg, are you serious? how the EFF would you know that?!?!?!
I see where you are coming from, Gem. And I agree. But one of the things we have to accept (when he’s here anyway) is that Benson is more sensitive than most. And that won’t be changing any time soon. I think also people tend to forget that we all, as you say, have a different personal truth. My experience with any one group of people may not match your experience, or the next person’s. That, however, doesn’t and shouldn’t take away from my truth, my experience, nor yours or anyone else’s. It’s a hard thing to remember, especially when tempers flare.
Did they figure out that you’re the one that wrote that?
Personally, I think “race” is a totally man made cultural phenomenon. There is a huge scale of skin color, facial features, shoe size, whatever.”
Totally agree. I also think many aspects of gender “norms” are too, which is why women are also a protected class.
SOME white women hate to hear they are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action. I just kindly point them to the historical information on AA and remind them that next time they get huffy about some black person supposedly taking a spot they didn’t deserve, remember how many of them have also taken spots they allegedly didn’t deserve.
We wouldn’t need such policies if everything were equal, but things aren’. Oh well. Such is life, right?
“”Yall effing grabbed my people up, threw ’em on a boat and shipped ’em here. Can’t tell you the exact dates or where we landed because you all weren’t too interested back then on keeping copious notes on that kinda thing.””
Omg am dying – sorry, but that’s hilarious that you wrote that!
hahahahahahahaahah rofl snappy