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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Ignorance is just, well, stupid.

I woke up this morning with every intention of trying to be nice to my roommate. I really, really did. Honestly, when I first woke up I was feeling a little irked by her because she woke me up to ask me if I had the phone before checking in the living room first. But I told myself, look, just try to think good thoughts about her and maybe magically you'll feel less annoyed.

And for about thirty minutes it kind of worked. That is, until we got to our first class and had to discuss affirmative action and race.

Now the first time we "discussed" affirmative action on the metro it was bad enough. It was bad enough when she said she didn't care if AA hurt Asians since, from her "experience" most Asians "cheated anyway." Yeah, that was bad enough (especially considering I distinctly remember HER copying off MY work last semester). But today? Oh today she just reached a whole new level of ignorant, racist, bitch.

So she's there defending AA, of course, talking about how it's still necessary and this and that, I jump in a couple times because she's rambling and not giving anyone else a chance to talk. Eventually I'm allowed to get a sentence in and bring up the fact that AA hurts Asians, and technically we are also a minority.

Her response? And please keep in mind that I am NOT embellishing here and have an entire class worth of people to back me up on this...She says: "Well 100% of Asians are smuggled over from China and they just live in those Chinatowns that are all over America and they just stay in those Chinatowns and work in Mr. Chang's grocery store."

Jaws dropped. I was speechless. And my roommate Joe slams his head down into his hands and yells out, "Oh my GOD! That's SO racist!" To which she replies, "No, I'm not being racist." I think I tried to point out to her that statistically Asians are probably the immigrant group with the largest number of college degrees (before coming to America) but she would have none of it. Nope. We all come over in shipping crates and work at Mr. Chang's grocery store in her world.

So, yeah, being nice and trying to "think nice" just went straight out the window after that. I could barely look at her without thinking "What a freaking moron." Luckily, I wasn't alone since she managed to insult almost everyone in the class at some point with her rambling tirades about race. For some reason she's got it in her head that anyone from Africa is black, including all of our Arabic classmates who seemed quite offended at the suggestion. Even after being shot down several times with reasons as to why Arabic does not equal black she STILL spent ten minutes talking about how in her mind (and if it's true to her it must be true period) they ARE black.

UGGGGHHHH...my cat is smarter than this girl. I don't know how I'm going to last two more months. I feel like just being near her is making my IQ drop.

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Comments:
Oh my goodness! Isn't she from California? You'd think she would actually know some Asian people. As far as all Africans being black, there's a new Disney TV movie about a little (African American) girl who gets all excited about an African foreign exchange student living with her family and is shocked when she gets there and she's ...WHITE! Maybe your classmates can chip in and buy her the DVD if you don't get the Disney channel there. : P
 
Oh my goodness! Isn't she from California? You'd think she would actually know some Asian people. As far as all Africans being black, there's a new Disney TV movie about a little (African American) girl who gets all excited about an African foreign exchange student living with her family and is shocked when she gets there and she's ...WHITE! Maybe your classmates can chip in and buy her the DVD if you don't get the Disney channel there. : P
 
Lousy roommates are the worst. I've had my share. Some of them don't pay bills, others are to stupid to breathe. I had one who would turn up the A/C when he got hot, and then when he got cold he'd open a window. In the winter it was the reverse. We'd have these monstrously high utility bills and he couldn't figure out why. Then there was the time he left tator tots in the oven for six hours. God, I've got a million stories.

Home should be a place you can come to and relax, not a place where you have to baby sit someone else who might burn the place down due to their own stupidity.
 
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