9 Responses to “It’s Getting Ugly”

1. #1 |  Danno49 |  October 8th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

   To people who insist on injecting racism into everything:

   Would you please evolve along with the rest of us?

2. #2 |  Marty |  October 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

   the letter-writer isn’t a coward as long as the letter’s signed, right?

3. #3 |  ClubMedSux |  October 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

   To people who insist on injecting racism into everything:

   Would you please evolve along with the rest of us?

   Sorry, Danno, but NOT injecting racism into everything won’t absolve you of racism; it may even confirm it.

   the letter-writer isn’t a coward as long as the letter’s signed, right?

   It took great courage for [illegible] to sign that letter.

4. #4 |  KBCraig |  October 8th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

   What? You mean the secret is out, that affluent white Democrats mask their inner racism by pretending to support people of color?

   Darn. Now what are they going to do to feel better about themselves?

5. #5 |  Linda Morgan |  October 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

   Oh, c’mon. We’re not really seriously bunching panties over this are we? This shouldn’t have gone any further than the waste paper baskets of the people who got the letters.

   I mean I can see being curious about who wrote it, but why elevate the whole thing to “ugly” when it’s obviously just snooty, snickery pranksterism.

   Try reading it to youself in the voice of any Phil Hartman character and the hilarity of the pretentiousness shines through.

   Or, um, maybe that’s the point of the post?

6. #6 |  652059 |  October 8th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

   Doesn’t the fact that the web site “stuffwhitepeoplelike.com” is referenced tip the hand of the writer? This has to be an elaborate prank.

7. #7 |  Danno49 |  October 9th, 2008 at 8:08 am

   ClubMedSux,

   My bad. It’s just that my black friend told me to say that.

8. #8 |  Nancy Lebovitz |  October 9th, 2008 at 8:54 am

   I’m trying to guess the age of the writer. It’s essentially a Freudian attack with an overlay of anti-racism, and I think the Freudian stuff was getting old in the sixties.

   Of course, someone of any age could have seen humor from back then, but I think it would have to be stuff you’d lived with for you to think it was still funny. Or, in the unlikely event that it was an actual attack rather than lame humor (I accept the possibility that it might have been funny if it had been done in a sentence or two), I still think you’d have to grow up with Freudianism to think it would get any traction.

9. #9 |  The Johnny Appleseed Of Crack |  October 9th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

   Someone could write a dissertation on all the neuroses at work in this story.

   Neuroses such as?

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