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[mrfadlan]

I'm off for the next two weeks, which I'm very much enjoying. This is time for me to get my affairs straight for school starting next month. THis is also time for me to prepare for the subbing position I'll be starting in January. I was vying for an intirim position at South Park elementary, and, though I did not get that one, I have secured a

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[tydestra]

If war is about a lot of dick waving to see who has the bigger penis, then racism is about how whites are jealous that darkies can go into and stay in direct sunlight and not burn.

I would love if a time machine was made to bring a slave owner from say the 18th century and drop him off at a tanning salon. The shift in a color from being seen as 3/5 a person to being a multi-million dollar industry would make his/her brain explode.

Because you do know that tanning salons are the biggest irony of all ironies in the whole racial conflict right? As is the skin-bleaching in communities of color.

[mrfadlan]

The tanning salons are mentioned in the book, though the skin-bleaching is ignored. She uses the salons to support her thesis that there is that unconscious desire to be black and effectively return to the black womb that cast the original albinos out of the tribes.

[tydestra]

I would never understand the desire for anyone to be another race, its ever so odd. Anyhoo, I'm off race-relation conversations should be done when someone's fully awake, which I'm not.

nite and happy belated yule!

[mrfadlan]

Night night and Happy belated Yule to you as well!