I have clearly not been on my Ps and Qs (with this blog or with life). It's the middle of 2009 and I am not in the same place that I was last year, but I definitely am striving for better. I'll try to update regularly if only to clear my head. Right now, I'm thinking of something a classmate said about bad kids: "I see bad kids and I just want to tell them, ' just go to college! It's so much better than anything possibly going on in your life right now. Just stick these two or three years out in high school, and apply. I'm sure someone will feel sorry for you and give you a diversity scholarship. I guess they just don't know."
I was offended on so many levels. Now, my first mind wanted to go angry black woman on her and then educate the ignorance out that behind, what with this Henry Louis Gates thing still going, but I don't think that would have helped changed her mind. I think sometimes I hit a point where I'm just tired. Tired of fighting stereotypes, tired of defending the race, tired of having to live above expectations, just plain TIRED!I don't have that kind of energy to waste, so she is on my associate at a distance list. I really can' bother with the foolishness.
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