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Jul. 2nd, 2004 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluebeardOh, here's an idea for a meme...
Let's propogate a black person's phone number across LJ, so we can laugh at how they talk!
wow. how white of you.
Let's propogate a black person's phone number across LJ, so we can laugh at how they talk!
wow. how white of you.
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Date: 2004-08-26 03:45 pm (UTC)I'm often amazed how much internalised racism plays a part in people.. but then, I think about it, and I'm not so much any more. Our (the US, collectively) past has made people flock with who's similar, which leads to ignorance about one another, which leads to assumptions, to hate, blah blah... White people assume about black people, gay men assume about lesbians, gay men and lesbians both assume about trannies... and vise versa, all of them. The pride talk is great and all, but it's really sad that people take it to the point that they won't consider the opinions of anyone outside their statistical-marketing-target demographic.
I think a post showing the difference between black street and "honkiese" would be fantastic. :P It's just a linguistic exercise, after all -- maybe include other English dialects? Deep southern? Brooklyn-ese?