Ok, so I am sitting anger management(repaying my debt to society) and participating as usual.
The idea is they show 18 of us guys a video on saturday mornings about how it is wrong to violate the Golden Rule. Excellent premise. In this video an african American couple are fighting. The fight goes south and and of course the dude gets pissed his wife will not let hime go joy riding in th car. Apparently they cannot afford fixing it every time he attempts to floss his whip. His only retort is his aleady spent tax check. Spent on things to "fix" the car.
The ask us at the end of the video "What is he going to spend the money on?" I reply "Spinny hub caps." "Why spinny hub caps?" I reply - "He can't afford spinny rims."(From the looks of the video they are completely broke.) "Who told him to buy spinny rims/hubcaps?" I reply (with NO hesitation)"BET."
These comments, though true, did not get a backlash. Everyone laughed and we all got a kick out if. Even the black dude 2 seats from me.
But next week....
We whating the same video only this time it is a hispanic couple.
Bottom line - dude gets ejected form the house.
They ask us - "Where is he going to go?"
I reply. "The hispanic community is closely knit, they are family first, so I think he stay with his cousins, or he will go stay with his lawn mowing buddies."
Let the floodgates of all potential rascism open.
I leave that day after being called a rascist with a new view of anger. Angry that my teachers of this class are telling me that "the truth cannot be said."
I told a hispanic girlfriend of mine and she fell over laughing. "We do a lot of yard work, thats for sure." She said.
The weird thing is, as a person I meant what I said, they noticed this, and proceeded to call my racism "deeper than I realised...."
