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[sekhmets_song]

Odd fact of the day

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[profane_stencil]

You forgot to title this, "My entry for International Blogging Against Racism Week."

[sekhmets_song]

See, I couldn't, because there is no possible way I could ever possibly catalog every encounter I've ever had with POC.
I'm just not that special.

[spaceoperadiva]

Sob. protected entry.

[profane_stencil]

It's a post I made that refers to two stellar examples of "Blogging Against Racism Week":

(S)houldn't it be someone's right to hire whomever they want? Shouldn't they be allowed to think, feel and say whatever they want? The problem with the racism debate is that presumes to tell people how they should think and that is just as wrong as being a bigoted idiot.

and...

I never have really dated anyone black, though a black friend of mine took me to the Valentine's Day Dance one year in College, and I had sex with another black friend who has gradually become one of my closest friends and always has been one of my favorite friends to flirt with.

[dorothy_parka]

there were that many kids in your school? i thought my school was big, but we only had 3,500 or so.

i hung out with dorks, but not freshman dorks.

[sekhmets_song]

Yeah. My high school was enormous, over 2700 in my freshman class. It was more like college in a lot of ways than a high school; we even had to go through a card-pulling registration process like a college, including the heartbreak of finding the one calculus class you wanted was full and you were going to be stuck with the dreaded Dr. Parks (just my own personal heartbreak, I guess).
It was also a really competitive school, so a good portion of the people in my freshman class did not, in fact, graduate with me.
Sadly, the 100 year old building I went to school in has been replaced by a new Cass Tech, which is much, much smaller. The new school is smaller than my freshman class, the entire place holding only 2200 kids. It also no longer looks like a pickle factory. Sad, really.

[dorothy_parka]

haha, calculus. when I found out I didn't have to take math after 10th grade, I stopped. I had other things to do, like smoke pot.

Holy crap, I just looked up a photo of your school. Do you have nightmares about that place? It looks pretty imposing.

[sekhmets_song]

The only nightmares I continue to have about the place are that I have to go back for some reason. Don't get me wrong, I had a pretty damned good time in highschool (absent parents, enough discipline to get my classwork done before I partied to keep all parently and teacherly suspicion off me, a big enough school that I could disappear easily when needed), but -gods- I wouldn't repeat the process for any amount of money!
The factory-ish appearance of the building is due to the fact that it was created so that, if it should fail as an educational institution, the structure could then be used for industrial purposes. Really.

[spaceoperadiva]

There were about a hundred people in my graduating class and not quite 400 in the whole high school. Surfing MySpace, I found ten people who supposedly attended high school with me. I recognize 1.5 of those people. I'm sure the other 8 are lying about their attendance at my fine alma mater. Or I'm senile. :)

[sekhmets_song]

Maybe you just blocked them out. Selective amnesia can be a very good thing.

[sekhmets_song]

I am somehow not surprised that he is greasy. I don't know why.