I DONT' EVEN HAVE A TITLE FOR THIS ONE, OR A PICTURE; SO... JUST READ THE DAMN THING.

Its been weeks, ok possibly longer than that since my last post, but after a quite eventful Friday afternoon I feel compelled to go on a rant, so for whoever is out there picking up what i'm laying down, be prepared for a bitchfest...

Ok so during the summer i work as a "maintenence man" at a local school, (which i must say reeks of all kinds of sucktitude) and for most of the day i work with one other person, this year it is an older worker (30 i think) a wife and mother. Now i'm not going to give a huge bio on this lady but i will say she's a die hard christian woman, very polite as well as very hardworking. So far (after four days) things had went well, we got along, usually carrying on small talk during the long afternoons of painting the dull yellow walls of the classrooms into fresher blue-greys.

Cut to, Friday, more painting, more talking when out of no where, for whatever reason (that is still unknown), this woman decides to ask the following question:
"So, do you date white girls?"
I'm at first puzzled with the question that had no such road leading up to it, and then after a couple seconds followed by a few more seconds of unexpected stutters i said to her,
"Well, i have been interested in many white girls, a lot of that is just the randomness of who i'm interested in at at time as well as the fact that i live here,...there isnt many other races, but at the same time, i'm not biased on who i date or like by race, race means nothing to me, i could at one time like a black girl, a white girl, and indian or latino or whatever, it just doesn't matter."

After this i began to paint again, until she decided to give me her take on this matter, she told me that my view was ok and all, but to her, she could not, no, would not alot our daughters to ever date black guys or any race outside of white, it just seems wrong to her. I was instantly shocked, perhaps i shouldnt' have been surprised, most parents feel this way here, but shocked that she would even bring it up in the first place. Had she stopped here, i would still be pretty angry at this old fashioned, insanely ignorant woman, but then, i'm assuming she saw that i wasn't talking, so she tried to go on, and justify what she believes....big mistake.

So she goes on and on about how she's not a racist, but she thinks its wrong, and in between her bullshit she would refer to my race as "you people" or "colored people", my first thought was to look at my calender and remind this mindless thing that it was no longer 1962 and that the term "colored people" was a BLATANT slap in my face. And then i realized, she's a poster child for ignorance, she had no idea she was insulting me, and futhermore i had to think about the possible hardships that would occur for the rest of the summer had i slammed my "colored" foot in her pasty ass. So i kept silent, i kept silent through the comments about her husband being a racist, through choice comments about the fact that in her opinion there ARE differences between our races such as "kinky" hair or our "big butts."

So then, i guess after 10 minutes of her dumbassery, she sees that she's pissed this Black man off, she begins to slowly slide from the subject, but not before she tries to fix things by saying her daughter has a little black friend who she says is just oh so funny, but once again she reinterates on how her daughter knows that she could never, everrrrrrrrrrr date this little black boy.

After all this, i spent the rest of the day in almost complete silence, with her continuing to strike up bullshit topics as a way of making sure she didnt' anger me, Maybe i should have said something, but i realized in all the shit that spewed from her mouth, she wasn't TRYING to insult me, she in her 30 years of life on this Earth, didnt' know any better, and i knew, had I said something, it would have been a barage of verbal attacks, definate insults to say the least. Its sad that she and so many people still wallow their beliefs in such shit as separation of races or w/e. I trust that you'll believe me, this isnt' the first time i've had to put up with this where i live, in fact it has become a habit in that past year, but that still doesn't mean she shouldn't have gotten smacked her dumbass in the face with that paintbrush i had.....