degero miro claro

So I haven’t been a topic-centered blogger for very long yet (just “so saturday I went to this concert and bla bla was there” up until now), and have just started to get an idea of what the community/culture is like. I found a seriously hilarious blog tonight called Stuff White People Like . It’s a dry satire blog on white/yuppie/middle class/liberal/educated/urban culture. I thank god that I have a great sense of humor, because I was reading this blog and laughing hard at stuff that I see myself doing or liking or thinking about. It’s a little dicey because the stiffs who don’t get it leave their racist or complaining comments, but that’s a good thing ultimately because people should talk more about race/racism and try to debug it.  I have always been passionate about how I think racism is not really about race and is more so about culture differences, fear, and differences in affluence (i realize there are direct and deep ties to race, but it all gets a little complicated). I am really happy/grateful that I am bi-racial (german, scottish and african american…tri-racial? tri-national?…whatever) and I hope that I can have some sort of perspective that helps people understand what race really means and how it defines you as a person. I’m sure I will have many more blogs about race in the future, probably some very serious and aggravated, but for tonight I wanted to keep the humor theme going. Here is a comment I posted on an entry about Michel Gondry, a director that white people like: 

“This blog is hilarious satire! It’s so funny. I’m bi-racial (white/african american), which can sometimes leave you with the ever hilarious/troubling paradox of “Am I white or am I black?”. I was reading post #68 and I thought, “I certainly think Bjork is cool…I must be white! Glad that’s cleared up.” Then kept reading, “Hey! I wanted to direct music videos when I was 16-20 too! That’s two…I guess even though I am 1/2 black, I must be white.” But then, “Oh, wait, I don’t own ‘The Work of Michel Gondry’. I did seriously think about buying it, but never did. I must be black!” And…”But I did seriously love the ‘Around the World’ video….white? But I don’t think it’s foolish, I still totally think it’s great…black?!?”
After considering the evidence, I am forced to conclude that I am, in fact, both black AND white although this is seen as impossible in human american culture. ” 

  :) . Goodnight.