tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post113347922038234126..comments2023-10-26T14:01:08.426+03:30Comments on Orange Tangerine: Blog Against RacismOrangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133814606000661112005-12-06T00:00:00.000+03:302005-12-06T00:00:00.000+03:30Ah, I arrived in 1989! Did you play rugby, singin...Ah, I arrived in 1989! Did you play rugby, singing as you did?Krupskayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08665763126281611998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133738554966013192005-12-05T02:52:00.000+03:302005-12-05T02:52:00.000+03:30"Shades of racism does exist"? If those are just ..."Shades of racism does exist"? If those are just 'shades' of racism, then the absolute cold of deep space must just be 'a little brisk'.<BR/><BR/>No, the cancer of Racism has been eating away at the flesh of nations for thousands of years, and we are generations away from a cure.<BR/><BR/>Every child born into a racist family has a better-than-average chance of becoming a racist him/herself.<BR/Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05028979877383784348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133601952189175832005-12-03T12:55:00.000+03:302005-12-03T12:55:00.000+03:30Orange,New to the blog scene and hence so id as ye...Orange,<BR/>New to the blog scene and hence so id as yet, <BR/>Read your blog and the writing is clean and simple and makes so much sense. <BR/>I really like what you have to said bout racism. My views are that in our psuedo modern society shades of racism does exist. Maybe take a few generations to purge this. <BR/>I would like to see people on earth living like it was back in Gondwanaland, no Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133548841302195062005-12-02T22:10:00.000+03:302005-12-02T22:10:00.000+03:30Huh. I've had a similar experience with my mixed e...Huh. I've had a similar experience with my mixed ethnicity -- lots of people can't quite tell what I am, though in cosmopolitan NYC, most people do correctly guess a mix of European (because my last name screams "Irish!") and Asian (because of my slightly slanted eyes and dark straight hair, I guess). But I looked 100% Chinese when I was born -- my dad's eyebrows and eyelashes didn't show up Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133543890639412572005-12-02T20:48:00.000+03:302005-12-02T20:48:00.000+03:30My brother married a Filipino-American and their t...My brother married a Filipino-American and their two children looked like little sumo-wrestlers when they were born, but now they look like both parents. I asked my brother once if he looked at his babies (when they were teeny) and saw them as Asian and he not only said no, but was surprised at the thought. He said, "They're just my boys."<BR/><BR/>And have you ever lived in a town with a breweryMignonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716330276288396317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133537798914029842005-12-02T19:06:00.000+03:302005-12-02T19:06:00.000+03:30Hope for the future is all we've got. I just wish...Hope for the future is all we've got. I just wishes races would willingly expose themselves to each other more often so we'd see that we're really not so different, and we're not always the way we're expected to be.Agent 31https://www.blogger.com/profile/13328977666160004095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133535388382166102005-12-02T18:26:00.000+03:302005-12-02T18:26:00.000+03:30Stella, actually, Ben looked like a little sage wh...Stella, actually, Ben looked like a little sage when he was born (preemies always look so grown-up), but since then he's looked a lot more like me. His hair and skin colors are at the midway point between Mr. Tangerine and me (but Ben tans beautifully, and I don't). He has incredibly happy brown eyes, and I really can't say whether they look "Asian" (I don't see my husband's eyes as Asian even Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133534836206825062005-12-02T18:17:00.000+03:302005-12-02T18:17:00.000+03:30I didn't know Mr. Tangerine was Asian! So, let me ...I didn't know Mr. Tangerine was Asian! So, let me guess...Ben looked EXACTLY like his dad when he was born, right? Just like me...my dad is white and my mom is Chinese, and I came out a little Chinese baby who didn't look white in the least. Gotta love those dominant genetic traits ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133527204940763542005-12-02T16:10:00.000+03:302005-12-02T16:10:00.000+03:30You bring up some interesting points about not see...You bring up some interesting points about not seeing racism and therefore thinking it doesn't exist.<BR/><BR/>I grew up in the South. There certainly was racism there, but you typically knew who to expect it from. People like the guy I went to high school with that at a mention of Martin Luther King Day said, "My dad and I won't celebrate that." My question about why was met only with a stareCraighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370522344783641482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133501189188229442005-12-02T08:56:00.000+03:302005-12-02T08:56:00.000+03:30Ah, yes, the Malt-o-Meal plant. It smelled more li...Ah, yes, the Malt-o-Meal plant. It smelled more like popcorn to me—roasty popcorn. But shortly before Thanksgiving each year, when the wind blew the wrong direction, the Malt-o-Meal aroma was replaced by the turkey farm stench. Bleah.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133500671351229342005-12-02T08:47:00.000+03:302005-12-02T08:47:00.000+03:30I didn't go to college anywhere near Minnesota, bu...I didn't go to college anywhere near Minnesota, but just out of curiosity, was there a cereal factory near either of these hills? I always thought it would be fun to go to college in a town that smelled faintly of cereal all the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133500433987449332005-12-02T08:43:00.000+03:302005-12-02T08:43:00.000+03:30I arrived in '88. You?I arrived in '88. You?Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133499938518753762005-12-02T08:35:00.000+03:302005-12-02T08:35:00.000+03:30Funny...people on the hill sang songs about people...Funny...people on the hill sang songs about people who lived on the smaller hill, which from the taller hill was more like a valley, or even the depths of hell, since people on that side of the river were all godless and everything.<BR/><BR/>You were likely gone from that town the year I got there, though.Krupskayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08665763126281611998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133494869576057342005-12-02T07:11:00.000+03:302005-12-02T07:11:00.000+03:30Yes, Krup, there was a hill. There was a river, an...Yes, Krup, there was a hill. There was a river, and over yonder on the other side of that river, up a bigger hill, there was another college. And the people from my college, they sang "Fool on the Hill" and directed it at the people from the other college. Know what I'm sayin'?Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133484589169108972005-12-02T04:19:00.000+03:302005-12-02T04:19:00.000+03:30It sounds like a wonderful school. Wouldn't it be ...It sounds like a wonderful school. Wouldn't it be great if more schools were like that? Unfortunately here in L.A., you get overcrowded, outdated, terrible public schools full of minority and marginalized kids--or white affluent public schools that cost 20,000 per year. There is the occasional neighborhood school, or magnet or charter school that does better, but they are few and far between.Piece of Workhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07330147978064465604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1133482004505765872005-12-02T03:36:00.000+03:302005-12-02T03:36:00.000+03:30Did your college happen to be on the top of a hill...Did your college happen to be on the top of a hill?Krupskayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08665763126281611998noreply@blogger.com