I Don't Know What's Wrong With Me

But race jokes have never made me laugh. Don’t care who’s telling them. I think it’s because I don’t believe society can use humor to alleviate these deep wounds and disillusioned distinctions because we can barely discuss race issues openly and seriously. Humor is seemingly used as a band-aid to pretend that stereotypes and prejudices are just so beyond our progressive thought that it’s comical, except it’s not. Except racism is still rampant and I know because I experience it everyday in this damn city with the cops, with the people working behind the counter at delis, and the daily sideways glances I get by merely existing in certain spaces. Yes, I enjoy shopping at Trader Joe’s, too you bitter, lousy old women who are blatantly staring at my skin and whispering to each other. Sigh. I don’t even remember what triggered this rant. Oh, someone said something about their teeth being so white they only shop at farmer’s markets and quote woody allen movies. Dammit, that’s kind of funny. Ok, so maybe “never laugh” is a bit extreme. I am constantly contradicting myself. Hey there, I’m an alien human. Shoot me. Wait. Don’t. Honestly, though, race jokes do bother me 80% of the time because we are definitely not there yet. However, it can be argued that humor is a stepping stone, but look at Dave Chappell. He used racial humor with vigor and intellect, but people just didn’t get it and his humor became something ugly and gnarled coming out of the mouths of assholes repressed racists in denial. I guess what I’m saying is there is a fine line between trying to change the views of others through humor and unknowingly encouraging- even perpetuating- stereotypes. Ok. I think I’m done for now.

Rant Over.

Twerk This.

The internet has been ablaze these past few days with commentary of Miley Cyrus’s diabolical scheme to appropriate black culture in the most disgusting way- by dancing- to further her sad, sad career. I have read so many damn articles about how mad everyone is and ya know what? I actually have gotten comfortable with the fact that I just dgaf. In the end the only thing that pisses me off is the fact that people ignore how much money and exposure this little moron is getting due to this nauseating provocative performance and all the BLACK entertainers also making bank due to her seizing episode  twerking.

Don’t get me started about the whole “twerking” being a real term now. My brain is melting struggling still trying to wrap itself around this ridiculous concept. Twerking existed before Miley Cyrus and was never considered to be entered into the OXFORD DICTIONARY, but her erroneous/embarrassing display of  booty shaking is what prompted the word to be added. It’s sickening. After all of that though the thing that really vexed me was the lack of coverage of EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON IN THE WORLD. Like, oh, I dunno, SYRIA. Or hmm, maybe the anniversary of the I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH! No, news sources were instead focusing on that gross chicken butt Miley Cyrus, granted I am solely speaking about my twitter feed, which until now I thought was a well-rounded collection of fluff and real journalism. Nope. I understand that entertainment news is amazing in all of its -celebrity break down-baby having-jail going glory, but when everywhere I turn all I see are articles on how Miley Cyrus is single-handedly perpetuating these misguided, longstanding, irritating stereotypes about black women when there are children being killed by their own government. I dunno. It just seems like our attention can and should be focused on numerous events at once. Honestly, I think the American people aren’t given enough credit when it comes to news coverage. It’s like the media gets together and is like, “Ok, one thing at a time, we don’t want them to hurt themselves. Miley Cyrus first and let the other stuff hang on the back burner. We also don’t want them being too informed. We’re not sure even how to do that properly, so I guess that won’t be an issue.” We can multitask our news. We’re capable of consuming vital news (I just got a weird flash of Lori Beth Denberg) and pop culture. I know this isn’t the first time this happened nor is it the last, there’s just something about this particular moment in pop culture infamy that really grinds my gears.

Ok, I’m done ranting. Ugh.