carmenlabruzzi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> In a dream in the early hours of March 27, 2008, two hunters carrying
> rifles approached me from behind on a trail that was somewhere in some
> free-spirited place like Big Sur. They asked if I would like to sign
> a petition. The petition read as follows:
>
> We wish to protest Zen practitioner Matthias Gruber running ****d on
> this trail. This offends our Christian sensibilities and creates an
> embarrassing spectacle for our wives and children. We ask that the
> Sheriff and local Justices do everything in their power to end this
> nuisance.
>
> Please indicate below if any of the following apply to you:
>
> colored
>
> Now, this was just a dream, remember. I don't know any "Matthias
> Gruber" or anyone who regularly runs trails ****d, although I do know
> some who might do it in the right place at the right time. And I know
> several people who would be out hunting in similar places with
> rifles.
>
> I interpret this for myself pretty simply, it's a reflection of my own
> prejudices against right wing Christians, as opposed to "Zen
> practitioners" who might run trails ****d (which I think would be
> pretty cool). Those right wingers conveniently show me *their*
> prejudice in their final bit, asking whether you're "colored" (as if
> that matters) which allows me to blow them off as bigots.
>
> But what do you think?
I think how you feel about things when you're awake is who you are. And
I think there's nothing wrong ever with thinking through whatever
crosses your mind, such as what you're reading, or the memory of a
dream, or foreign policy, or /anything/, whether you can do something
about it or not.
Demetri Martin is a standup comedian who says things that sound a
little like a cross between Steven Wright and Emo Phillips. On his CD
that he just put out, at one point he says something like, "If you're
trying to start a conversation with a stranger, you can't go wrong by
saying, 'What's your favorite color?' But it doesn't go as well if you
say, 'What's your favorite color person?'" Yeah, I see that. Funny.
There's a whole spectrum of bigotry, running all the way to people like
George MacDonald Fraser's Harry Flashman character, who thinks of
everyone in the world who isn't a pink-white upper-class Englishman as a
nigger. His word. Which of course doesn't interfere with his either
shooting them or having *** with them, whichever occurs to him to be
necessary at the moment.
Racism is insanity. We're all the same species. Pink-white is a color.
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