Cabbies say it like it is

On my way to work today, I had the best cab driver ever. It was a woman. She was African. No no, not like that dumb expression "African American." She was actually African, from Africa, and not a 10 generation whatever.

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African American is the dumbest way to describe black people. It's offensive to real African Americans, people who actually immigrate here from Africa. And it's offensive to black people, those who have actually been here for as many generations as most white people. They're Americans too. No one goes around calling white people: Swedish Americans, German Americans, Irish Americans, etc. Not to mention the fact that not all black people originally came to the US from Africa. I refuse to use that dumb term.
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So on the way to work, my cab driver and I go by this corner where there's equipment being used for filming the Batman movie. Most of the filming takes place at night, but they have people guarding the equipment during the day. As we drove by, we noticed that the guy guarding the equipment was actually sleeping. He happened to be black, but I didn't really notice that until my cab driver mentioned it. She laughed wholeheartedly, then said with the cutest African accent:

"Can you believe that guy? You just can't sleep on the job. He'll probably sleep more, get caught, and get fired. Then Jesse Jackson will get on TV and say he got fired because he's black. He won't get fired because he's black, he'll get fired because he's a lazy ass! But Jesse Jackson and other rich black politicians will make a big deal about it to get more time on TV. Then when they guy says 'oh yeah, I was sleeping,' they'll all say 'OK, he deserved to be fired.' But the won't do that on TV, they'll just whisper it and never talk about it again."

You see. This is what I love, well, love and hate. Only a black person can say this. Because if I say this, Jesse Jackson will get on TV and call me a racist and ask that I be fired. But it's just nice and refreshing that some people see it as it is, and call a spade, A SPADE!

I think all lazy people who sleep on the job should get fired or at least warned. But we all work in places where we have black and white people, and probably people of other races working. And we all know how much more cautious the employers are when certain people of certain races don't do their job. And it's so demoralizing and bad for the work environment. But this is the America we live in. The concept of equality is lost on many people. Often those who are asking to be treated equally, are actually asking for special treatment. There are certain occasions when that's not true, and there's still a lot of racism around, but affirmative action or whatever the hell it's called these days, is obviously not going to make people less racist, it's just going to make them resent each other more. But it gives me a little bit of hope when I see that there are people of all types and races and colors who truly recognize how fucked up the system is!