Sometimes, when I find myself staring out the window like Malcolm X, I wonder if I'm making too much of the "race" thing. There's Obama, I find it hilarious, and would stop by any Meet A Black Guy booth I encountered. By Any Means Necessary, knahmean? But daaammmm, for real? Oregon needs help like that?
Anywow, back to my window.
"Black Guy" booth livens up market [Corvallis Gazette-Times]
h/t: Wes
i love this blog...keep up good work.. its to be nice if we can know each other...:D
ReplyDeleteThere's some irony to a Meet A Black Guy booth. Maybe not enough, but just to think of it requires some sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteI'm a black guy also. It'd be a funny if the booth became a hangout for the brothas.
exactly anonymous, and what about black girls looking to meet a brother? i doubt the dating scene is terribly diverse either.
ReplyDeleteI was born in Oregon and have lived here all my life.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most memorable (and hilarious) comedy performances I ever experienced was by a black guy in Portland who said folks were always asking him why in the world he would move to Oregon, to which he would respond, "I wanted to observe white people in their natural environment."
Like your work. My spin on the booth would be to make it "Kiss a Black Guy".
ReplyDeleteWow. Oregon is throwing me for a loop lately. About a month or so ago I wrote a blog about diversity training that is being done in Eugene for the upcoming Olympic Trials to help the residents deal with the influx of black athletes. It's called Blacks on Track Team.
ReplyDeleteOf course you probably have already written about it but it seems as if Oregon is a little behind the times.
it was staged. i thought it was kinda funny.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/06/05/news/opinion/5edi01_0604edit.txt
I hope he's charging money for admission.
ReplyDeleteWell I'd be damned! I'm guessing we can bkame Obama for this bullshit. After all, he did give his wife that now famous negro handshake; I think its known as a pound, or dap, or some other negro gesture.
ReplyDeleteBut hey man, you'd be surprised at just how many white people for whom Michael Jackson is the only black person they know.