Growing up in the 80's and 90's, I remember the public schools in NYC forcing us to take sensitivity training regarding black people.
There I was sitting with my two best friends, one born in Italy, and the other born in China, writing essay after essay about slavery in the United States. On black history month I wrote a 5 page paper on Washington Carver and the peanut.
Back in the 80's and early 90's black sensitivity was at its highest, you couldn't get away with ANY type of jokes regarding black culture. Times were tense, we had the Rodney King riots, the riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and I remember Al Sharpton marching down 18th ave in Bensonhurst.
TODAY? I'm in shock with what people say sometimes. I love watching shows like Tosh.o, family guy, and South Park, and they make black jokes on a regular basis.
Black jokes are now being allowed. But what has taken its place? Gay sensitivity....
GOD forbid you make a gay joke today. I wrote a recent blog entry that said it was "gay" in Texas that the bars close at 2am, and about 5 people emailed me saying that it wasn't very "sensitive". Of course I didn't mean it as a sexual reference, it was a damn joke.
I have 2 gay friends in Brooklyn and I am always complaining to them about the gay pride parade in the city. I always said that if the gay community wants to be taken serious that they have to stop that bullshit with the leather chaps, and pants with the missing ass checks. The gay pride parade looks like a gay orgy to me, i would never in a million years take my future kids to see it.
If you think feminism is bad, I dare you, DARE you to criticise anything about the gay rights movement.
I DARE you tell them that they shouldn't promote promisicuity (especially man to man)
I DARE you you tell them that anal sex is not safe
I DARE you to accuse them of making their voices artificially higher pitched that it really is
I won't do it in public, you know why?
Because being gay is now the new black...
There I was sitting with my two best friends, one born in Italy, and the other born in China, writing essay after essay about slavery in the United States. On black history month I wrote a 5 page paper on Washington Carver and the peanut.
Back in the 80's and early 90's black sensitivity was at its highest, you couldn't get away with ANY type of jokes regarding black culture. Times were tense, we had the Rodney King riots, the riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and I remember Al Sharpton marching down 18th ave in Bensonhurst.
TODAY? I'm in shock with what people say sometimes. I love watching shows like Tosh.o, family guy, and South Park, and they make black jokes on a regular basis.
Black jokes are now being allowed. But what has taken its place? Gay sensitivity....
GOD forbid you make a gay joke today. I wrote a recent blog entry that said it was "gay" in Texas that the bars close at 2am, and about 5 people emailed me saying that it wasn't very "sensitive". Of course I didn't mean it as a sexual reference, it was a damn joke.
I have 2 gay friends in Brooklyn and I am always complaining to them about the gay pride parade in the city. I always said that if the gay community wants to be taken serious that they have to stop that bullshit with the leather chaps, and pants with the missing ass checks. The gay pride parade looks like a gay orgy to me, i would never in a million years take my future kids to see it.
If you think feminism is bad, I dare you, DARE you to criticise anything about the gay rights movement.
I DARE you tell them that they shouldn't promote promisicuity (especially man to man)
I DARE you you tell them that anal sex is not safe
I DARE you to accuse them of making their voices artificially higher pitched that it really is
I won't do it in public, you know why?
Because being gay is now the new black...