are you for serious?

i just turned on the tv to go find a law and order repeat i haven't seen yet. CNN was on; a bunch of people were squawking their concern and indignance over this recent trend of "racist parties" at colleges. i had to find out what's been going on in undergrad since back in the day when i was busy winning drag shows as the only straight entrant at my alma mater.

so some college kids have a "gangsta party" on MLK day and dress up like thugs, drinking malt liquor 40's, padding their tushes, making tin foil grills, and piling on the bling. according to the black lawyer and students they interviewed, it's totally racist and unconscionable. the lawyer doesn't understand where these kids could get these ideas from, these terrible stereotypes about what black people look like or wear. I HAVE NO IDEA, YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT, THE GANGSTA PRISON STYLE IS TOTALLY A FIGMENT OF WHITE SUBURBAN IMAGINATIONS. it's ok when little wannabe crips in westchester buy fubu and make money for the rap labels pestering their relatives for more thuggin cd's for their bar mitzvahs. that's totally fine. but have a theme party? god forbid.

and while it may be tasteless to do on MLK day, to be honest, do it any day that month and you can be sure it would be construed as a racist slap in the face to all of mankind. because every single day the week of MLK day has special activities and group panels, and the holiday's significance extends out in either direction on the calendar for an indeterminate amount of time. but if you have your gangsta party any other month of the year, look out - it might be kwanzaa. what are you trying to imply, whitey??

seriously, could you people all fucking relax. could you stop thinking so hard and looking under every little rock for nuances of racism. aren't there enough completely blatant hate crimes, against many groups, in this country and beyond? go take those on. go eradicate the rest of the clan. go make scholarships for minorities in science and high-level education. go fight gang involvement. let the asshole milquetoast middle class college kids have their stupid parties. otherwise we'll be paying reparations to samoa for all the culture-mocking luau parties we have in this country.

there's a limit to ridiculousness and we passed it long ago with all this political correctness. life is hard. people die. there's disease and suffering. nothing is ever fair, to anyone; everyone gets screwed with equal randomness. stop fostering such an overly sensitized, kid-glove society. this culture is the boy in the plastic bubble; one cough and it's all over. how does making everyone expect utter fairness encourage strength? pick yourselves up by the bootstraps and start addressing real problems. otherwise send me your therapy bill. but that's not anti-semitic now, is it? because i didn't mean anything by it. really.