You Might Be A Racist

I am a black girl, I'm 23, and I was born and raised in Kansas. I'm also college educated, but un/fortunately for me I attained all of my education at a PWI (predominately white institution), and have the lucky recipient of latent, and sometimes not so latent racism. Don't worry kids, racism is alive a well... we burried the n-word, but forgot to bury what makes it so ugly. Go figure!

Anywho... I usually experience racism from young whites, the group that most think is the least racist. I've found that really, they're just carrying the torch. I have a finance degree, and I am currently pursuing my accounting degree ( times are rough, and I was selling cable, and accountants are accounting) And I still attend a PWI and that means I'm usually the only chocolate chip in the cookie. So in all group projects, I'm always grouped up with pink toes (thats old school black vernacular for white folks) Tunrs out young pink toes in Kansas are usually painfully racist.
My favorite comment "I would've got a scholarship, but I'm white." Can someone please tell me where is the free money for being black line?!!! I been looking for that shit my whole life. But unfortunately for me I'm black, middle class, with college educated parents... Nobody is sympathetic for me, an only child with access to two incomes...

A more recent occurance, apparently foreign university students are not only less articulate, but lack understanding to handle basic tasks such as reading and writing. Or at least thats what my white group members have revealed to me in comparing our group to other groups in our class. Let's just be real Quan, Xi, and Mohammed, more likely have had more education before they even get to college than the average american who is in the process of completing their BA. We've all know which kids are kicking ass at school from kindergarden... the foreign ones.

My favorite is the shock I see on white people's faces when they find out that I'm articulate. I didn't get the memo that me being a big black girl required me to be ignorant, inarticulate, loud, neck rolling, and finger wagging. Oh... I also didn't get the memo that I should have two or three babies daddy's right now instead of two degrees. (okay... well maybe I'm working on number 2) But you get the point.

The Octomum pisses me off

So let's begin today with a rant. I am still very much upset and outraged (yes I said outraged) by the OCTOMOM. First of all, in these harsh economic times a lot of people have delayed starting a family, or put off having a new baby, or even have had vasectomies and tubal ligation to keep from having unwanted pregnancies. So it might be safe to surmise that new children may be somewhat of a luxury. I'd like to go ahead and throw this out there, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, it almost seems as if children are for rich people... they wanna eat two and three times day, they want clean clothes, and they get to be really demanding about having a warm dry place to live.

And here we have this fool, no husband, no job, no real visible means of fisical support for the six children she already has,decides she should have another litter of babies. I say litter because when you have a multiple birth occurance with that many babies, like a dog, you might as well call your brood a litter. Mind you, three of her first six are disabled (or at least she's collecting disability) for those children, and she herself claimed disability for a while. And she decides whether than give her mama some money for all that babysitting, she's gonna have another very expensive round of invitro fertilization... BULL BUTTER!!!

IVF is for people who can afford it, people who WORK! People that don't already have six kids. Guess who's taking care of this lovely family of 14 plus dumb mom... The government. Or in lamens terms... you, me, and the state of California. Is Nadya Suliman the reason why the state is broke? Maybe not, but lets just say she's taking in more than she's putting out.

So I think what pisses me off is that it appears her need to have 14 babies was not about her love of children, it was about a cry for attention. Not to be confused with a cry of help. She wanted some time in the sun, her 15 minutes, she was hoping for some type of celebrity. She's made deals to let media outlets peer into her life, to blog daily, and to basically become a spectacle. I've seen news about a new million dollar home, a jacuzzi, publicity agents, lawyers, free nannys, and pleas from Dr. Phil to help this poor idiot out. But I have yet to read the headline "OCTOMOM FINDS HER SILLY ASS A JOB"

What do you think? Should Nadya Suliman suffer the consequences and repercussions of her selfish decision. Or should we all join together and alternate babysitter her kids?

Greetings!!!

Hey people, I'm Nina... sales is my day job, but I moonlight as a writer. I love to read, I love to write, I love words. I love the way words work, I love the way they sound, I love how they let me express myself. I'm not a painter, or a musician, I've tried to be a singer, but it turns out I cannot carry a tune in a bucket. I've been writing as long as I could remember, prose, fiction mostly, and I have about 200 posts on my MySpace blog. I am going to be blogging on blogspot so that I can be more candid, and talk about more things without offending the general public.

From me, you can expect to hear about love, sex, relationships, life in general, and my maybe not so witty observations. But I'm also open to suggestions for topics. I also give pretty mean advice, so feel free to ask me what I think about totally random shit. I love to think and respond.

I plan to post about four times a week, and can't wait to entertain you.