Thursday, March 11, 2010

"The problem with Scotland...is that it's full of Scots"

One of the greatest movie lines ever. It's from either bluebeard or blueface or macbeth or ..no it was braveheart i think..

in it, the king of england shares his thoughts on Scotland, and subsequently mentions that if Scots won't get out of Scotland, then the English will "breed them out" by enacting some medieval rule where English lords and such can have their way with Scottish women at their own leisure. Sounds good..if you're an English lord.

But i write this post based on the report that Crackers like me will eventually go the way of the dodo bird in this town in the not too distant future. Are you a cracker too? How does it make you feel? Do you feel threatened?

Well, to be honest, in one small way i do feel threatened. But before you slap those Three- Letters-Between-J-And-L on me, it's not what you think. I happen to love the diversity of this city. Really. I mean, where else can I eat some hot-ass Roti one day and then some hot-ass Beef Vindaloo the next? Well, besides Jamaica and India.

It's just that in some hard to understand way, i feel like one day us Honky's are gonna get what's comin to us. Payback for the hundreds of years of crap we unloaded onto various other races around the globe. And, maybe we deserve it. Maybe we need to experience what others experienced to balance the scales. Sure we have offered compensation to Native people (here in Canada and elsewhere in the world). Sure we have instituted affirmative action. Sure they produced the Cosby show in the 80's.

But what do you think? If you feel at all threatened in any innocuous way, are you in fact a racist?

Or, are you just human?

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