Posted on 06/02/2008 11:28:43 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
The booths at the Saturday Corvallis Farmers’ Market have a wild mix of fresh produce, tasty food, plants and flowers.
But this week, a table just outside the bazaar offered something more bizarre — “Meet a Black Guy.”
Those who participated in the free service could chat with 21-year-old Corvallis resident Jeff Oliver, and get pictures taken with him.
(Excerpt) Read more at dhonline.com ...
This reminds me of a story my late uncle told me back in the mid sixties. He was from Mississippi, but was stationed in Oregon with the Coast Guard, and one day a black guy came in to town. Everybody in town turned out to meet him because most of them had never even seen a black person before......
I really thought that this had to be satire. Yet it’s apparently a legitimate article from a legitimate newspaper.
Okay, let’s all go to the south side of Chicago, East St. Louis, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, the Anacostia area of Washington DC, etc. and set up a booth to have residents celebrate diversity and meet a white man. Can you imagine the reaction if that happened?
Black People Love Us!
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
Could be more bizarre, could be Obama's church bazaar having a “Meat The White Man" booth
Yeesh, some of the interviewees need to lighten up a little. I think it’s kinda funny.
I'd rather not get paid with 'rocks' and 40 ouncers, thanks. :-P
This guy’s about the same shade as me after the summer. Sheesh.
I thought it funny ,too.
Now watch some group bring an EEOC complaint for not hiring equal numbers of white people.
I grew up in Eugene, Oregon. I did not meet a black person in person until high school, in 1968. There was only one black family in my school district. When I graduated high school in 1972, the number of black families had doubled to two. Cousins of the first black family moved to the district.
I wouldn’t say that Oregon is still lilly white, but......
Corvallis is a stretch, though. College town. Oregon State University.
“Hey lookie there, they got one a them black fellers. Ya see em on TV, but ya don’t really think they’re real.”
Really, I spent about 15 years in that area, and there aren’t a lot or black, or hispanics, or anything else. I can only recall knowing one black person, and he was strangely popular, just out of curiosity I presume.
This reminds me of something that happened when I was in a small town. I was the only black guy they have seen in their lives. They were used to seeing black people wearing backwards caps, do rags and being illiterate because that’s what they saw on TV. So when I talked to them and they saw me, they were in complete shock.
Here I was, this (At the time) Gothic clothing and forward baseball cap wearing articulate black guy. You should have seen the looks on their faces, especially after I espoused my political views.
My thoughts exactly. It's as though a large group of white folks congregating in a city or town is racist in and of itself. As a white man, I'm not ashamed to admit that I never once thought "hey, this town (where I live) needs more black/hispanic people!" Apparently I don't have enough white guilt blood cells coursing through my veins.
You owe me a keyboard!
sorry. still waiting for my “stimulus check”.
That’s the funniest site I’ve seen in a while, brilliant. The only un-funny part is the “letters” section where the ignorance of so many people shines through.
Lol! Have you read the letters? People don’t know whether to laugh or be angry.
Who, in Americia, has never met a white guy? - come on now....
Hey man, how’d you pull off the Gothic style? I was always drawn to it but could never see a black guy pull it off.
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