Race

Heh.

Via the froggy bottom.

This was twittered this morning by the lovely Carmen Van Kerchove of the delicious Racialious. She found it at Macon D's blog "Stuff White People Do" under the post, "use a virtually innumerable array of euphemisms instead of the word 'white'".

It was first posted by Lady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrelle at "We Are Respectable Negroes"in a post titled, Euphemisms for Naming White Folk which was later expanded in Euphemisms for naming white folk : And many said it could not be done, the 60 name barrier has been broken.

You have got to read all these great posts. Here's my favorites :

I love it how he starts his rant : Is it me or he didn't want to say Barack Obama's name?

People, it's time to give the shaft to Bill Clinton. It's not only the people who work for him that are petty. The bastard still can't take part of the blame for sinking his wife's campaign to the ground.

Last night's Emmys had the lowest viewer ratings ever. This from The Holywood Reporter :

And the award for lowest-rated Emmys ever goes to ...

ABC's Sunday night telecast.

The three-hour 60th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony received a 3.8 rating/9 share in the preliminary adults 18-49 demo -- the lowest in Nielsen's recorded People Meter history.

That's 12% below last year's previous Emmy record low, a ceremony hosted by Ryan Seacrest on Fox.

This year they didn't have just Ryan Secrest (American Idol, E News Daily). They had Heidi Klum (Project Runway), Jeff Probst (Survivor), Howie Mandel (Deal or No Deal) and Tom Bergeron (Dancing With The Stars). They had 5 friggin' hosts and it still tanked.

By the way : Is it me or does Jeff Probst look like he had (plastic surgery) work done
recently? And what the hell was that about Bergeron dropping poor Heidi Klum on the floor like that? She was a total trooper, I have to say.

Try as I may, I couldn't make the gentleman stop to speak with me. Actually, when I asked him if he was a Republican, he kind of fast walked away from me. OK ... he did run across the street like I was the plague. So I just started telling him loudly, "C'mon! You can tell me! Don't run away!"; but no, the man was definitely weary of my indentifying him.

So even though he didn't answer my question, I am pretty sure that what we have here is a picture of the "Abjectio Republicanus Africasensis" in the wild.

An endangered political species indeed.

[Liza's Note : This is an awesome post that I meant to promote to the front page before the holiday (soy) nog and mojitos got in the way. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.]

Rarely were Tennesseans so blunt the first time they met me. It was more likely something like, “Do you have a home church?” Which of course I didn’t in Maryville. There is no United Church of Christ in Blount County. In Knoxville, one is listed on Weisgarber Road.

During the late 60s, I served as Sunday School superintendent and my husband was treasurer in such a church located in a near-west Chicago suburb. Half of the children went to Catholic schools.

In the public schools, a large percentage of the children attended Catholic churches. When we had pancake breakfasts, mothers of the Catholic children thanked us for accepting their children.

Often the family had a “mixed marriage.”

U C of C history comes straight from the story of the Old North Church in Paul Revere’s time. They often work with other Christian groups to promote acceptance of all Christians.

During college days, I participated in an interracial fellowship group, hosted by Northern Baptists in Iowa City. Southern Baptists split from the national organization before the civil war, clearly over the question of race. In East Tennessee, one finds the denomination further divided with names like Missionary, Independent and Reformed.