White people walk like thiiiiiiiis

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised by it all the time, but damn if my co-workers lean towards racism more often than not. Janitors aren't known for their reading, like that's a surprise or something. Anyway, last Wednesday a mammoth of a woman who dresses like she wishes she was a picnic table remarked in relation to a swimmer's cap, "Hey, don't the blacks wear something like that on their heads?"

I don't know if that's a benign remark or not, but given the source I doubt it is. Something about an enormous white grandmother who lives in the outskirts of a suburb referring to black people as if they were a rival sports team makes me a little uncomfortable. I stayed quiet, though. I mean, I don't care quite hard enough to make a thing out of it, since I'm sure the argument would devolve into it being her opinion and how she's not hurting anyone. Which is technically true, it's just words and words can be deflected much easier than a torch or a truck. It's just not exactly a good habit to start. So whatever. I won't have to deal with this person forever, so who cares.

Then, this Wednesday of all days, another custodian related Jon Benet Ramsey's parents being proven innocent to evolution. You see, sometimes evidence can be misleading, you know, evolution is a pretty good example of that. I promptly asked that he stop right there, but he went on to inform me that the reason that evolution arguments consistently lose to Creationists is that evolution has no real evidence. He has listened to top scientists, and they can't argue evolution over creation effectively.

Ten minutes after that, I was informed that, in regards to the Reverend Jesse Jackson's comment about balls, if a white person had said it... That's pretty much all I know since I left the room before she was able to finish the sentence.

I certainly can't say that I'm very well informed about other ethnic groups, I live in a particularly white neighborhood, and there's really only so much that owning Chapelle's Show on DVD can do for a white guy. However, I don't see why it's so difficult to just not be a dick about it. It's not particularly difficult to not use terms and phrases that are generally considered to be offensive or ignorant. It's not really too uncommon to see some white dude on the news saying something about Barack Obama's headwear or whatever the fuck. I don't watch enough Fox News. I guess I should, it's probably pretty funny.

I lost my point. Too many racists in Washington. A lot of them clean schools.