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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 17, 2012, 05:08:25 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021147834
Oh my.
RB TexLa (15,575 posts)
I had someone ask me today what race I am.
I told them "someone would have had to have told me what race my biological parents were for me to know that. Since no one ever told me I can only assume it wasn't any of my business. Now, can I ask why the **** you would think it's any of your business."
I was more than a little shocked that they would ask me that.
Tx4obama (20,761 posts)
1. We are all members of the HUMAN RACE
Although sometimes I wonder about some of the GOPers, some of them seem more like aliens from outspace
Speck Tater (9,234 posts)
3. My answer is simple...
I'm Irish, like everyone else in the world.
I'm sure I have at least one Irish ancestor somewhere in the distant past, or perhaps some Nordic ancestor whose people raped and pillaged along the coast of Ireland and left some offspring in Ireland, or maybe someone from Africa whose second cousin's great grandfather moved to Ireland in 1952 making me indirectly, through an eighth cousin thrice removed, Irish.
In any case, if I search the family tree deep enough, backwards, forwards, and sideways through time I'm sure I can find somebody Irish in there somewhere.
Therefore, I am Irish. Thanks for asking.
There's a good chance that everybody in the world can answer, with confidence, "I'm Irish." That being the case, let's just all make that our standard answer so that the question need never be asked again.
progressivebydesign (16,832 posts)
4. Wow.. kinda harsh response. Some people, albeit clumsy, ask for other reasons.
It's possible that they have adopted a child, and curious if they're the same race, etc.
Unless this person was already outwardly cruel or rude to me, I never respond that way to a question. It sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder, to the person who asked the question. Some people are just awkward, but I'm shocked at how aggressive you came back at them.. unless there was more to the story before that.
Dear Abby usually says something like this: Why would you want to know that? before biting their heads off.
Ruby the Liberal (21,865 posts)
6. Perhaps they found you exotic and attractive?
I understand why this question may be of concern, but it may have been made in genuine interest.
Take it as a compliment.
morningfog (1,650 posts)
8. Would it have changed if they asked you how you identify?
treestar (34,447 posts)
9. In what context?
What race were they?
Dreamer Tatum (6,543 posts)
10. "Ah, so you're a member of the dick race"
perfectly valid retort from them after that diatribe.
RB TexLa (15,575 posts)
11. So you think it is their business?
GobBluth (42 posts)
12. What was their tone?
I must have very common features that span the globe, as I often am asked "what nationality" are you. For the record, if my genealogy is to be trusted, I am English, Bohemian, Norwegian, and german, so VERY European! I know that is much different than race.........
But I have had a man from Mexico start speaking Spanish to me because he assumed I was also Mexican (which is strange, isn't Mexico pretty diverse?), Greeks think I am Greek (I live around many and married one, so this happens a lot) and when my Pakistani neighbor married, his new wife mistakenly thought my father was Pakistani, because my mom was too "white" to have produced me.
Shrugs. I've had some cool conversations with other white people who thought I was something else, based on their own stereotypes. None were trying to offend. Most were just interested in maybe getting to know someone outside their world. Felt bad disappointing them when I reply "I am a European mutt"
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Why would anyone get upset because someone asked them what race they are. :mental:
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Just tell them you post at DU - That'll make it clear that there is a well north of 95% chance that you are a cracka-ass-honkey.
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What kind of snit do they get into with those surveys that ask what race you are? Or the DMV, to get s/h/it's driver's license?
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I've never been asked what race i am but I do get the what nationality are you query often. Because of my darkish complexion I'm often mistaken for Indian , Mexican , Greek etc. That is until I speak.
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What really pisses the DUmpmonkies off is when someone asks what sex they are.
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I am an American african. I have the intention of applying for citizenship to South Africa. With libs, all that counts is intentions.
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I've never been asked what race i am but I do get the what nationality are you query often. Because of my darkish complexion I'm often mistaken for Indian , Mexican , Greek etc. That is until I speak.
Yep me too. Grandma on Dad's side was a full blooded American Indian. So I am tall, kinda got a darkish reddish complexion, coal black hair, no chest hair, but I take after Granddad with a full beard. Now my brother got more chest hair but no facial hair. He shaves maybe once a week... the asshole.
I get asked all the time what I am. I tell them. Whoop-dee-doo. I can't change it and I don't care. The dummies obsess over the most dumb shit I have ever seen.
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Well there really are only three answers, Negroid, Mongoloid or Caucascoid
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Well there really are only three answers, Negroid, Mongoloid or Caucascoid and Tigre Woods.
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I've never been asked what race i am but I do get the what nationality are you query often. Because of my darkish complexion I'm often mistaken for Indian, Mexican, Greek etc. That is until I speak.
Same here, the question about nationality.
My parents and myself turned out a hodgepodge, but when one looks at the grandparents and great-grandparents, the mixture's English, Scots, Welsh, Brandenburgian, Carpatho-Ruthenian, and Judaic.
When asked, I claim that with which I most "identify," English, although the physical characteristics are Welsh and the temperament is most definitely Carpathian.
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Why would anyone get upset because someone asked them what race they are. :mental:
They're not used to it because it normally happens on job applications.
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There are many things that offend me, but guess what? I'm a grown up and I understand that the world wasn't created to cater to my want's and desires. I do what grown ups down when faced with someone saying something I find offensive. I basically ignore them and added the to the collection of things that are irrelevant to my life.
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Just tell them "African; according to the paleoanthropologists, everyone is. My ancestors were some of the earlier emigrants."
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If the DUmpmonkeys are so offended by racism, perhaps they should practice it so much.
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What race am I? I dunno, I guess the Pocono 400. Old and boring. O-)
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Yep me too. Grandma on Dad's side was a full blooded American Indian. So I am tall, kinda got a darkish reddish complexion, coal black hair, no chest hair, but I take after Granddad with a full beard. Now my brother got more chest hair but no facial hair. He shaves maybe once a week... the asshole.
I get asked all the time what I am. I tell them. Whoop-dee-doo. I can't change it and I don't care. The dummies obsess over the most dumb shit I have ever seen.
Same here, the question about nationality.
My parents and myself turned out a hodgepodge, but when one looks at the grandparents and great-grandparents, the mixture's English, Scots, Welsh, Brandenburgian, Carpatho-Ruthenian, and Judaic.
When asked, I claim that with which I most "identify," English, although the physical characteristics are Welsh and the temperament is most definitely Carpathian.
My Father was full blooded Icelandic and my Mother was a mix of German , Polish , Welsh , etc.
Now folks are surprised that an Icelander has brown eyes & brown hair such as myself. They think of Blonde and blue eyes but the true pure blood Icelanders are Darker skinned with dark hair and brown eyes. People say I speak with a very pronounced Scandinavian dialect.
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A dummy being offended by racism is an oxymoron since their whole thought process revolves around racism.
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Italian/Irish/Dutch mostly here. ::)
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They make the boy who cried wolf look like an amateur.
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What race am I? I dunno, I guess the Pocono 400. Old and boring. O-)
My tastes go more towards the race this Saturday night . . . :-) Nothing like a late summer's night at Bristol.
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My tastes go more towards the race this Saturday night . . . :-) Nothing like a late summer's night at Bristol.
Yeah, a night race in Bristol is nice. I always wanted to go to one. Maybe some day I will.
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Nothing like a late summer's night at Bristol.
It used to be a tough ticket. For the past few races the place has been half empty.
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It used to be a tough ticket. For the past few races the place has been half empty.
The other half is full.
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It used to be a tough ticket. For the past few races the place has been half empty.
Yeah, they were sold out for almost ten years ahead at one time. NASCAR has been suffering do to the economy.
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Yeah, they were sold out for almost ten years ahead at one time. NASCAR has been suffering do to the economy.
And doo to the occupoopers.
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Yeah, a night race in Bristol is nice. I always wanted to go to one. Maybe some day I will.
Do it. You'll go back again.
Charlotte race coming up in Oct, BTW.
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Maybe they meant what species.
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Bristol sounds like a nice weekend trip. I remember a few years ago, you couldn't get tickets for love or money.
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Bristol is one of the night races I always wanted to go to. They have bus tours that go to it from here. The price is like $700.00 a person. It sells out every year.
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Bristol sounds like a nice weekend trip. I remember a few years ago, you couldn't get tickets for love or money.
For years, I never cared for the short tracks or road courses.
This year, I started to watch them, and began to appreciate the stamina and concentration needed to compete.
I'll keep going to Charlotte, but, I won't miss any of those others on the TV.
Last year, I ran into Kenny Shrader. He showed me his "private collection" garage. That was cool.
One of the niced guys you'd ever meet.