Comments on: My Journey Through Race and Racism (Part I) http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/ We don't need no stinking subtitle Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Greg Laden http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-12306 Greg Laden Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:32:48 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-12306 Observer: Thank you so much for offering to step in and make sense of my world. But that's OK. It turns out that I actually have an astonishingly high IQ. So I can probably handle it. If you get my drift. Which you don't. Observer: Thank you so much for offering to step in and make sense of my world.

But that’s OK. It turns out that I actually have an astonishingly high IQ. So I can probably handle it. If you get my drift.

Which you don’t.

]]> By: Observer http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-12304 Observer Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:28:23 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-12304 ***Michael Spencer, October 9th, 2009 5:13 am : Nice job, Greg. I totally did not see that coming. Guess I have a road to travel, too.*** What, to avoid making sense of the world through past experience? ***Michael Spencer, October 9th, 2009 5:13 am :

Nice job, Greg. I totally did not see that coming.

Guess I have a road to travel, too.***

What, to avoid making sense of the world through past experience?

]]> By: Greg Laden http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-11446 Greg Laden Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:22:04 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-11446 Here's the second part: http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-ii/ Here’s the second part:

http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-ii/

]]> By: Oran Kelley http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-11436 Oran Kelley Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:36:36 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-11436 What, you think you're O. Henry now? Interesting story. I anxiously await part 2 . . . What, you think you’re O. Henry now?

Interesting story. I anxiously await part 2 . . .

]]> By: Kate from Iowa http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-7085 Kate from Iowa Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:08:57 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-7085 We all saw it through the eyes of our own experience, and a lot of that experience is extremely influenced by the local climate. You may not have as far a road to travel as you think, Michael. Around here (there really wasn't a way to tell who or what "Joey" is,) the men like the Mayor were generally aging, alcoholic and slightly dotty...Mesqwaki. We all saw it through the eyes of our own experience, and a lot of that experience is extremely influenced by the local climate. You may not have as far a road to travel as you think, Michael. Around here (there really wasn’t a way to tell who or what “Joey” is,) the men like the Mayor were generally aging, alcoholic and slightly dotty…Mesqwaki.

]]> By: El Guerrero del Interfaz http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-7078 El Guerrero del Interfaz Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:36:57 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-7078 Thanks for the input. Very interesting. And much more so when I compare it with my own experience growing up in Europe. Which I saw at that time as more or less equivalent to the United States, our theoretical "ideal". How wrong I was... Thanks for the input. Very interesting.

And much more so when I compare it with my own experience growing up in Europe. Which I saw at that time as more or less equivalent to the United States, our theoretical “ideal”.

How wrong I was…

]]> By: Michael Spencer http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-7074 Michael Spencer Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:13:30 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-7074 Nice job, Greg. I totally did not see that coming. Guess I have a road to travel, too. Nice job, Greg. I totally did not see that coming.

Guess I have a road to travel, too.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich http://quichemoraine.com/2009/10/my-journey-through-race-and-racism-part-i/#comment-7003 Mike Haubrich Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:14:21 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=1799#comment-7003 I had many Joey's when I was a kid, but luckily I didn't gett hit on a frequent basis. I used a form of "passive-aggressive" humor to avoid getting hit. For example: <strong>Craig</strong> (menacingly:) Haubrich, do you think I am tough? <strong>Me:</strong> I think you are tough-looking. Craig's friends burst out laughing and he would look like an idiot if he hit me. In Hallock, there were divides between "country" and "city" but everyone was largely of the same ethnic makeup. Only rarely did we run into ethnic groups that were different from ours, and I have written about that at Tuibguy.com. We also had a "class" divide but it didn't run too deep, because we had so few social institutions that kids crossed over the class line to be members of 4H, the hockey clubs, etc. I had many Joey’s when I was a kid, but luckily I didn’t gett hit on a frequent basis. I used a form of “passive-aggressive” humor to avoid getting hit. For example:

Craig (menacingly:) Haubrich, do you think I am tough?
Me: I think you are tough-looking.

Craig’s friends burst out laughing and he would look like an idiot if he hit me.

In Hallock, there were divides between “country” and “city” but everyone was largely of the same ethnic makeup. Only rarely did we run into ethnic groups that were different from ours, and I have written about that at Tuibguy.com. We also had a “class” divide but it didn’t run too deep, because we had so few social institutions that kids crossed over the class line to be members of 4H, the hockey clubs, etc.

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