Work is Madness

[kansol_encore]

MADNESS I SAY! MADNESS.

For the past year, I've basically done nothing but sit. or sit down. or get up from sitting down, only to sit down moments later. At work, all I do is STAND. My feet hurt and there isn't a comfortable pair of shoes in the world that could make them feel all better. I did an epsom salt soak the other day and rid myself of 65-

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[pretty_panther]

Oh Morgan ;___; Just. No. I can't even go there with that bullshit.

HAIR! HAIR PICS OMG WANT Ahem~

[kansol_encore]

OMG I TOOK A PICTURE AND IT IS HILARIOUSLY BAD. will post.

Re: Morgan Not-living-up-to-his-name-Men shameful shit.

[justthedreams]

Portrait of an Artist is the only book in high school I never finished reading. I didn't even get through half of it. I decided that it was hopeless and SparkNote-d the rest of it. Utterly incomprehensible. Kudos to you for pushing through it, but I'll never try again. Hahaha

[kansol_encore]

The title is much too long to type out in its entirety. Originally, I have myself ten days to read. It's been like 3 weeks now. :( There's no type of motivational tool that could help.

[cookielaura]

Ugh, I tried to read Portrait... for uni and eventually gave up, and just banked on the fact I'd be able to answer other questions on the exam! I remember struggling to even get past the first two pages for a long time!

That Morgan Freeman comment really surprises me. It's beyond stupid. Is he only going to be happy once we have a President who can prove that no white people were ever present in his genetic line?!

[kansol_encore]

I thought I was going to read twenty pages today! Could not get out of bed, could not get story beta-ed, and most assuredly could not bother to pick up PoaAaaYM. I have the leather bound copy and it is heavy to bother with.

I can't even know WTF Morgan Freeman wants. I was listening to an earlier interview of his and he said, "God is a construct of society" and I was like are you crazy??? As though society is some monolithic organism that hasn't changed in oh 5,000 years over all the whole damn world. Ugh. super wack.

[ningloreth]

After I read your post I went and listened to the Morgan Freeman interview.

What he said about Obama's mother was in the context of Donald Trump's saying (basically) that Obama's origins are obscure and that he isn't properly American; the mixed race part seems to have been in answer to the Republicans who have blocked Obama's reforms and undermined him, claiming that he's dangerous because he's 'black'. (Freeman has recently donated $1m to Obama's campaign). He goes on to say that, when Obama was elected, he (Freeman) thought it proved that 'we' (I think he's referring to African-Americans, though he doesn't say so explicitly), 'are properly American now', but that, in fact, attitudes to Black Americans haven't really changed and, in that sense (I think), he feels that America hasn't quite had its first Black president.

[kansol_encore]

I see where you're coming from, but I still call bs on Mr. Freeman.

Obama is black and just because things haven't significantly (culturally, socially, and politically) changed for African Americans does not negate his racial identity. Race is not determined on what progressive advances a particular person has made on behalf of 'their people; race is wholly an appearance thing, and a conflation of the two is imho idiotic.1

Re: Blocked legislation & "dangerous black men"
Idk if we're arguing semantics here, but I feel like Morgan Freeman's rejoinder is that "his mom is white so he's okay" and that it is still a racial issue instead of being based on merit or bipartisan philosophy.

1. I don't think you're idiot...opposite end of the spectrum. But if Morgan Freeman thinks that, then he is living in his own world.

[ningloreth]

I don't know whether Freeman makes a distinction between Black and Mixed Race, and I personally think the idea's dangerous -- it's not the way forward to equality -- but it's easy for me to say something like that, because I'm not affected.

I do feel, though, that Freeman's words were taken out of context and conflated, and that it changed their meaning, and I still feel that he was saying 'not the first black president1', rather than 'not the first black president'.

1 because Obama's not being respected the way an elected president should be respected, even by the other party.

If you listen to the interview, the thing about Obama's mother is an answer to Donald Trump's implying that Obama isn't American. Again, it's unfortunately worded, but I honestly think Freeman's saying, "Not American? By your own racist standards, his mother is as American as it's possible to be."

[kansol_encore]

Sorry about the delayed response.

Morgan Freeman's comments have definitely taken on a negative pallor and as he has yet to clarify to original intent; all everyone else can do is speculate. Nonetheless, there is a significant portion of black Americans (and blacks worldwide) who view 'mixed race' blacks as inferior and for me his comments (at face value) point more so to that ideal than political gravitas and the lack thereof.

On the topic of Blacks and Mixed Race I would say that there is definitively a distinction. Not recognizing the differences is akin to throwing a blanket over them/pretending they don't exist. For me, when I don't acknowledge my heritage (or consider myself solely Black), I feel like I'm not giving due respect to my family and all the varied cultures that influenced my upbringing. On the flip side, when I refer to myself as Mixed Race, I feel somewhat pretension and that I'm not accepting the fact that experience life as a black woman.

I would easily venture to say that most Mixed Race people experience a