Donny Walnuts: I've discovered in the midst of writing this post that I have some A.D.D. and you will catch my random thoughts throughout this script of literature that I'm about to present to you, you'll catch the wafte of it in my parenthisis, I just wanted to prepare you.
So... I was perusing the wonderful world of Barnes and Noble yesterday. Some days that place is truely orgasmic if I'm in the right mood.
This particular visit was not.
It was the opposite. (what is the opposite of an orgasm????)
Amanda: The opposite of orgasm is everyday life... or surprise buttsex.
Donny Walnuts: ...and it wasn't because I didn't visit the dirty magazine section.
Upon my arrival there were numerous displays about it being black history month.
That's fine with me.
I'm down with brown.
Amanda: That sounds EXACTLY like surprise buttsex.
Donny Walnuts: Needless to say after January's inauguration, nearly every display black history month or not had some sort of Obama book or memorabilia on it.
(No one was going to get me to buy any of those books ...Unless of course it's about some sort of scandal he was involved in. Then I'd purchase it only to comb it over so I may quote it and use as further material to pad my daily anti-democrat facebook status update.)
I half expected streamers.
There were none.
Every year when it comes to this month I always wonder if it was accompanied by a parade and some sort of fanfare, I just showed up five minutes too late. They should have calendars that say "Black History month" as a subtitle to February on it, because invaribly I have incidents like in Barnes yesterday where I think to myself "oh... it's the 21st, I nearly missed it! (big whoop)".
But the point I'm getting at here... is why???
WHY?????
I accept that we need to study black history and learn from the mistakes of the past as well as study the motives, goals and personalities etc... of people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.
Why exactly though do we call it "BLACK history month"??? it's not as if anyone is claiming that the other 11 months of the year are white history months. Much less do we actually set aside a month and name it white history month. That would be deemed prejudice. (And that would be a whole 'nother blog post on its own if I went the direction of that last sentence.)
Amanda: It's reverse discrimination against the caucasian race. And it's absolute bullshit. So there can be a black music/entertainment channel, but there cannot be a while channel? And then you get the argument of "Well, EVERY station is caucasian"... and yet again, I call bullshit. Even on the MOST closeminded and backwards of channels (coughFOXNEWScough) there minority commentators, celebrities, random people...
If anything in my everyday life I'm swamped by what people of different cultures and of minority are doing around me.
This is the news in my day:
Cubans are floating across the gulf of Mexico towards the U.S.
Gays are protesting the results of proposition 8.
Mexicans are crossing the border into the U.S.
North Koreans are being persecuted whilst trying to develop atomic bombs.
Same for goes for Iranians.
A white congress passed a bill for -- guess what...? a black president to make a law.
Conflict between Muslims and Hindus.
Conflict between Palastinians and Jews.
How about the NFL?
Amanda: I hate the NFL.
Donny Walnuts: Try to name 5 guys off the top of your head in the NFL that aren't black and that don't play quarterback. If it's easier for you... name 5 guys in the NBA that aren't black.
(Auggghhh...
Rian Lindell - Kicker, Buffalo Bills
Troy Polamalu - Saftey, Pittsburgh Steelers
Anthony Gonzalez - Wide Receiver, Indianapolis Colts
Brian Moorman - Punter, Buffalo Bills
Nick Mangold - Center, New York Jets
...Damn that was harder than I thought and I had to use two players from the Buffalo bills...)
Amanda: Can I name five in MLB? David Wright, Ryan Church, Mike Pelfrey, Brian Schneider, John Maine... and that's only on the Mets!
Donny Walnuts: I'm not sure where I'm going with this black history month thing, but I don't feel like I'm alone in thinking about how confusing my role is within it in a holistic sense.
By no means am I here shouting out white surpremacy or to say that anyone shouldn't celebrate their heritage and learn about the history of "their people", can't we accept that it's part of OUR history. This happened in the history of OUR country.
If you don't want to, that's fine, but it's undeniable that whites are still the majority in this country. What is my role and moral responsibility for "black" history month?
(My Cynical Conservative Republican thought: Moral responsibility is bullshit.)
In any case two generations ago my family wasn't in the United States. My great grandfather came over on a boat from Poland and got a job so he could earn enough money to ship my great grandmother and my grandmother here.
It befuddles me to think that my great grandfather did that for my family. Yet we have the fourth generation minorities in ghettos that don't have a job to support the family that is already here. I guess it just shows a difference in character if not between my family and that one, then at least character of people then and people now.
Amanda: I don't think it's an inherent moral difference in race, honestly. There are plenty of white people who don't have a job to support their families and live off the system. I think it's an inherent difference in races believing something is OWED to them because of the wrongdoings of our forefathers (I'm not saying "ours" in a literal sense, I mean "ours" in the late white race). We "owe" the black race because our ancestors enslaved them; we "owe" the Asian race because we put them in internment camps in WWII. Fuck, if that's the case, the Germans owe the Jews a whole hell of a lot more than I owe anyone...
Donny Walnuts: Every year I was in high school I was forced to learn about slave trade and how things were in the deep south between plantation owning whites whom I have not even a distant relation to and black slaves whom I have even a further distance in relationship to.
I didn't ever ask to hear about the history of Poland.
Not that I didn't care.
It just wouldn't be on a government sanctioned standardized test at the end of the year.
Amanda: Nobody cares about us Polacks. It's very sad.
Donny Walnuts: Why is it limited to "black" history month though? Why not "minority" history month? It even rolls off the tongue better.
I don't even know how to address it and sound inappropriate!
If I were in mixed company and someone were to ask me to describe a person who was black I would get uncomfortable when it comes to skin color.... "He uhhh... was.... (black??? African american??? of color???)" -- not sure which would piss people off less.
Yes.
Less.
Why do I feel this way??? Is it because I'm prejudice or is it more likely that I've heard a million different scenarios where some black guy gets upset for being addressed inappropriately. Maybe it's all just inappropriate, it's just subjective depending on said persons mood whether or not it offends them.
Amanda: We'll probably get lambasted for using the word "blacks" in this post, but JFC, there's no politically correct way to address the black race. I'm sure plenty of people will think we're inherently immoral for even raising this discussion about race... c'mon Don, it's supposed to be OUR RESPONSIBILITY to be PC and all hunky-dory!
Donny Walnuts: I Just. Don't. Get. It.
Amanda: Word cotton.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Kids are Skanks Too
Amanda: Ha, Don, I got the better color.
Alfie Patten is allegedly a father at age 13 - so says the British rag "The Sun." I've got a few problems wrapping my head around this whole thing.
Donny Walnuts: Heh... I'm sensing another two candidates for a bunch of democrats to deem my money is better spent on than myself...
Amanda: 1) It's "The Sun." They run stories about alien abductions and finding Atlantis and their website reads something like an anime episode that gives seizures to children. The whole piece is highly sensational and while it is theoretically possible (and probable), I'm rendering a guess that we're not getting the whole story here. Especially when more credible news outlets have been hesitant to follow the story (two posts on CNN, a bunch on Fox [who is calling BS], and none in the NYT).
2) IF the story IS true, a 15-year-old having a baby with a 13-year-old boy isn't anything new. I went to school with a girl who got pregnant in 9th grade. Kids are having sex younger and menarche occurs in girls younger too and the combination is lethal (well, technically not lethal, since it's bearing babies). But in such cases, where are the parents? If I came home knocked up NOW my mom would ship me straight to Planned Parenthood to "abort mission" - she probably would have skinned me alive if I were pregnant at 15.
Donny Walnuts: I ask this same question and have this exact line of thought process with many kids these days. Not only that, but I have that same thought with a lot of adults actually... you're barely living off of what you have now and you're going to afford a child? The fact that you think that also shows your lack of responsibility... another reason why a child should not be brought into the world under these circumstances. Amanda, I think that I would love to be around when you presented such information, either that or really far away. I think your dad would be very profound... or very profane.
Amanda: My dad doesn't really talk about sex/babies. My mom, on the other hand, is vehemently against anyone under the age of 28 having a child. When one of my sister's "friends" got pregnant, she flipped out and said that she'd have that thing "sucked out faster than a hooker sucking dick." (I really wish I was kidding...)
Anyway, number three: The bible thumpers are up in boots because this story is the "perfect reason why comprehensive sex ed doesn't work." My question to them is: "Does abstinence-only sex ed work?" I wrote a 10-page thesis on why it DOESN'T - because, by numbers, it doesn't. You can't stick your head in the sand and pretend kids won't have sex, but the more you say "DON'T DO IT YOU'LL DIE OF AIDS AND BABIES" the more kids will WANT to do it. At least give them the smarts to use contraceptives when the time comes...
Donny Walnuts: I heard the same thing, I don't even know if at age 13 I got a "comprehensive sex ed." though. What I do know is that I wasn't taught about sex in the sense of the actual education of what part goes where and what happens when. I was taught about the responsibility that was required to take care of one, and what a financial requirement it was to take on a child. Both by my parents.
I've always thought to myself that I wanted to spoil myself before I deticated my life to having a family... even if that family is limited to just Morgan and myself. I have yet to spoil myself or fall into a bucket of money that would constitute conception of a child much less raising one (although I have not been deturred from the physical act of conception ....surprisingly ...not really.). At age 13 I wasn't thinking about sex... I don't think I was anyways. I was too worried if the girl I like actually liked me back, much less the thought of getting in her pants... forget her dropping full trau and us bumping uglies. What the hell is going through this kids head at age 13?
Amanda: I agree. I just wanted a boy to like my pimply face and terrible fashion sense. I didn't have a boyfriend 'til I was 15 and it took us three months to even kiss in the first place.
Donnie Walnuts: ...do you think Ron Jeremy or Peter North were like that at age 13?
I'm a horny bastard but never have I been out of control to the point of stupidity (I.E. - lack of contraception).
Amanda: And that's the bottom line in the whole thing.
Alfie Patten is allegedly a father at age 13 - so says the British rag "The Sun." I've got a few problems wrapping my head around this whole thing.
Donny Walnuts: Heh... I'm sensing another two candidates for a bunch of democrats to deem my money is better spent on than myself...
Amanda: 1) It's "The Sun." They run stories about alien abductions and finding Atlantis and their website reads something like an anime episode that gives seizures to children. The whole piece is highly sensational and while it is theoretically possible (and probable), I'm rendering a guess that we're not getting the whole story here. Especially when more credible news outlets have been hesitant to follow the story (two posts on CNN, a bunch on Fox [who is calling BS], and none in the NYT).
2) IF the story IS true, a 15-year-old having a baby with a 13-year-old boy isn't anything new. I went to school with a girl who got pregnant in 9th grade. Kids are having sex younger and menarche occurs in girls younger too and the combination is lethal (well, technically not lethal, since it's bearing babies). But in such cases, where are the parents? If I came home knocked up NOW my mom would ship me straight to Planned Parenthood to "abort mission" - she probably would have skinned me alive if I were pregnant at 15.
Donny Walnuts: I ask this same question and have this exact line of thought process with many kids these days. Not only that, but I have that same thought with a lot of adults actually... you're barely living off of what you have now and you're going to afford a child? The fact that you think that also shows your lack of responsibility... another reason why a child should not be brought into the world under these circumstances. Amanda, I think that I would love to be around when you presented such information, either that or really far away. I think your dad would be very profound... or very profane.
Amanda: My dad doesn't really talk about sex/babies. My mom, on the other hand, is vehemently against anyone under the age of 28 having a child. When one of my sister's "friends" got pregnant, she flipped out and said that she'd have that thing "sucked out faster than a hooker sucking dick." (I really wish I was kidding...)
Anyway, number three: The bible thumpers are up in boots because this story is the "perfect reason why comprehensive sex ed doesn't work." My question to them is: "Does abstinence-only sex ed work?" I wrote a 10-page thesis on why it DOESN'T - because, by numbers, it doesn't. You can't stick your head in the sand and pretend kids won't have sex, but the more you say "DON'T DO IT YOU'LL DIE OF AIDS AND BABIES" the more kids will WANT to do it. At least give them the smarts to use contraceptives when the time comes...
Donny Walnuts: I heard the same thing, I don't even know if at age 13 I got a "comprehensive sex ed." though. What I do know is that I wasn't taught about sex in the sense of the actual education of what part goes where and what happens when. I was taught about the responsibility that was required to take care of one, and what a financial requirement it was to take on a child. Both by my parents.
I've always thought to myself that I wanted to spoil myself before I deticated my life to having a family... even if that family is limited to just Morgan and myself. I have yet to spoil myself or fall into a bucket of money that would constitute conception of a child much less raising one (although I have not been deturred from the physical act of conception ....surprisingly ...not really.). At age 13 I wasn't thinking about sex... I don't think I was anyways. I was too worried if the girl I like actually liked me back, much less the thought of getting in her pants... forget her dropping full trau and us bumping uglies. What the hell is going through this kids head at age 13?
Amanda: I agree. I just wanted a boy to like my pimply face and terrible fashion sense. I didn't have a boyfriend 'til I was 15 and it took us three months to even kiss in the first place.
Donnie Walnuts: ...do you think Ron Jeremy or Peter North were like that at age 13?
I'm a horny bastard but never have I been out of control to the point of stupidity (I.E. - lack of contraception).
Amanda: And that's the bottom line in the whole thing.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Opening post
Donny Walnuts: Hello everyone!
I'm sure it's just Amanda and myself for quite some time. Which really doesn't bother me, it's a way for us to get our thoughts out. It was inspired (at least for me) because I've seen some really cool multiple-contributor blogs that have turned out to be fantastic. Some I read regularly.
That being said Amanda and I have started this blog that we have equal contribution to. We've had so much fun posting in each others comments about various things, mostly political up until now. But the format is going to look a lot like an AIM conversation because if it weren't for Blogger, or e-mail we'd be discussing this all via AIM. We get heated at times... we'll see how this goes, but that's the general idea here.
...I'm going to try to keep my comments to a minimum to allow Amanda space to comment... keep it free flowing a bit.
Hope it turns out well! It's going to be a bit rigid and raw at first I'm sure till we get use to this format of posting.
So!
Go ahead Amanda! Say hello to the world (don't forget to use your red color to keep to our theme, and feel free to edit this post to do so! don't create a new post to say hi).
Amanda: (I don't really like the color red, Don... I'm more of a green or yellow person myself. And apparently I don't have the smarts to just edit this post on my own - I needed implicit instructions?)
WELL HELLO WORLD. It's the more optimistic by nature (but pessimistically nurtured) co-blogger (bloggist?) of "Explitive AIM Conversations," the no-doubt coolest co-written blog ever (I'm also quite self-depreciating). I really love using hyphens, parenthesis and alliteration and will have a tendency to correct Don's non-committal capitals at the beginnings of sentences. Tomorrow we'll being our foray into the blogging banter, but for now, I've been relegated into posting an intro.
Unlike Don, I don't read a lot of blogs - I much prefer reading terribly written/edited/formatted online newspapers and making sardonic comments in the "INTERACT!" sections (my pseudonym "gobigpelf" is rarely liked around these parts). In all honesty, I take the news very seriously - so much so that when I realized that I was having a much more torrid love affair with the New York Times than with my boyfriend, I had to drop my journalism major in fear of marriage to an inanimate object.
Don't get me wrong, I love smut. I frequent Perez Hilton and watch "The Best Week Ever" and that will probably be evident in many of our posts (I promise, we're starting tomorrow out with a bang... literally). Just wait and see - you'll be surprised.
(Whether that surprise is good or bad, I don't know...)
Donny Walnuts: I really don't have any problems with the color red... I'll take red... it's the color of Republicans! So by all means, in the next post feel free to take blue.
Do you see what I'm dealing with here people?
I'm sure it's just Amanda and myself for quite some time. Which really doesn't bother me, it's a way for us to get our thoughts out. It was inspired (at least for me) because I've seen some really cool multiple-contributor blogs that have turned out to be fantastic. Some I read regularly.
That being said Amanda and I have started this blog that we have equal contribution to. We've had so much fun posting in each others comments about various things, mostly political up until now. But the format is going to look a lot like an AIM conversation because if it weren't for Blogger, or e-mail we'd be discussing this all via AIM. We get heated at times... we'll see how this goes, but that's the general idea here.
...I'm going to try to keep my comments to a minimum to allow Amanda space to comment... keep it free flowing a bit.
Hope it turns out well! It's going to be a bit rigid and raw at first I'm sure till we get use to this format of posting.
So!
Go ahead Amanda! Say hello to the world (don't forget to use your red color to keep to our theme, and feel free to edit this post to do so! don't create a new post to say hi).
Amanda: (I don't really like the color red, Don... I'm more of a green or yellow person myself. And apparently I don't have the smarts to just edit this post on my own - I needed implicit instructions?)
WELL HELLO WORLD. It's the more optimistic by nature (but pessimistically nurtured) co-blogger (bloggist?) of "Explitive AIM Conversations," the no-doubt coolest co-written blog ever (I'm also quite self-depreciating). I really love using hyphens, parenthesis and alliteration and will have a tendency to correct Don's non-committal capitals at the beginnings of sentences. Tomorrow we'll being our foray into the blogging banter, but for now, I've been relegated into posting an intro.
Unlike Don, I don't read a lot of blogs - I much prefer reading terribly written/edited/formatted online newspapers and making sardonic comments in the "INTERACT!" sections (my pseudonym "gobigpelf" is rarely liked around these parts). In all honesty, I take the news very seriously - so much so that when I realized that I was having a much more torrid love affair with the New York Times than with my boyfriend, I had to drop my journalism major in fear of marriage to an inanimate object.
Don't get me wrong, I love smut. I frequent Perez Hilton and watch "The Best Week Ever" and that will probably be evident in many of our posts (I promise, we're starting tomorrow out with a bang... literally). Just wait and see - you'll be surprised.
(Whether that surprise is good or bad, I don't know...)
Donny Walnuts: I really don't have any problems with the color red... I'll take red... it's the color of Republicans! So by all means, in the next post feel free to take blue.
Do you see what I'm dealing with here people?
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