Sunday, November 18, 2007

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Gang Signs
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2007-06-24 22:25:47
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Today I started feeling a little better, and this led to an explosion of pent up energy. Did I clean the house? HELL no! Did I do the laundry? HELL no! Did I make a delicious, nutritious dinner??? HELL NO!I thought about gang signs. It all started yesterday when I was feeling ill and was looking at depressing stories on the internet during the 20 minutes I managed to crawl from bed. The first thing I saw was some police officer in custody after the body of his nine months pregnant (with a daughter) girlfriend was found. Investigators' first clues came from his two year old son - also the son of the missing pregnant woman. "Mommy broke table, mommy hurt, mommy in rug." Then I read about a 13 year old boy that was given a suspension at school for hugging. The school administrator said that it was because they have a culturally diverse student population and the NO TOUCHING rule was to prevent gang signs in the form of a handshake to be exchanged.This led to me thinking about what gang I could belong to. I suppose I'm a European American. This being the case I think that my gang sign should be the slow, regal, side to side, cheek level (face not ass) wave of the Queen of the Britains. "HELP! HELP! I'm being OPPRESSED!"So while I was busy thinking through this entire FILE,subfile, subfile subsection process. I thought of the Wizard of Oz. "If I were the King of the FOREST, not Prince, not Duke, Not QUEEN." - and right when I thought of the cowardly lion, I saw a woman getting in to her car at the grocery store (by this time I had regained enough energy to go shopping) and her head was a perfect lion's mane.RAWR!The MadTV clip below is from the genre of SATIRE:1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. Do you understand? This is where we laugh at all the stereotypes we use instead of dealing with people on an individual basis and where we take pride in how far we've come. Oh, but there's so much farther to go.Besides, it sort of fit in with gang signs, the Queen of England (HELP, HELP, I'M BEING OPPRESSED), and If I were the King of the Forest.Don't bother to click it on if you're offended by racial stereotypes - including the one where white women are the powerless love toys of black men.

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