about 10,000 bugs later and 1000 miles later, i’m now back in socal.  i just had a brutal year.  i’m mentally exhausted and emotionally traumatize from my first year of law school.  but i survived.  still am.  but what made this month for me in fact happened today on my stop by in san mateo to rest from all this driving.

i remember once having a conversation with my friend kate regarding that dreaded thanksgiving dinner.  you know, that dinner where you have a racist uncle, a politically incorrect cousin and all that awesome stuff you try to maybe avoid at a dinner table with your family.  i remember kate saying how it’s difficult and impossible to change their minds especially perhaps the elderly.  that stick to me.  and part of me unconsciously probably took her advice to just leave it and avoid the argument.  

but today, during breakfast my uncle (my dad’s cousin) was just talking to me.  he was talking about a relatives husband who was black and how he was probably the nicest person he’s ever met.  my uncle will cook for him any filipino food and he’ll just eat it.  and he was talking to me how he comes and helps him out with chores in the household and how he wouldn’t eat any other filipino food but his.  he then started comparing how this other relative he has who was married to a white person was just not a nice person and was mean to his in-laws.  this story is really far from perfect because i must admit that he did admit to having prejudices against black folks and maybe it shouldn’t be something like to prove how stupid racism is.  but then he said something that i’ve been trying to tell my family all this time.  he said it’s really not about the color of your skin.  in any group of people there are nice ones and perhaps not so nice personalities and the same applies to filipinos.  it’s just that what people do shouldn’t have any connection to how they look like.  yeah so 1 down about a couple of family members to go! right?

“In Rockefeller Center, in New York City, a private street called Rocekfeller Plaza is situated between the GE Building and the sunken skating rink.  In order to preserve Rockefeller Center’s right of ownership of the street, each year the street is closed to all traffic, even pedestrian, for one day - a Sunday in July is usually chosen as interfering least with tenants and visitors.  Lawyers for Rockefeller Center believe that this formality is necessary to prevent the public from acquiring a permanent right of way in the street”

Property is by far the worst class I have taken.  It’s full of stuff white people invented for self-preservation and oppression (e.g. American Indians during discovery cannot [or did not have the capacity to] own land).  Granted that’s really the field of law. It has whiteness all over it and full of traditions based on discrimination.  It’s not just a law class but it’s essentially the history of colonialism and imperialism with fancy technical terms to confuse the powerless.  The way some of the judges based their decisions on property law makes me question them.  Who the eff based someone’s rights on hundred year plus tradition?? Oh right.  Nevermind. #our entire justice system needs a massive face lift cuz it’s super wrinkly old.

anedumacation:

yoisthisracist:

Yo, if that guy feels that way about Portlandia, he is going to BUG OUT when he discovers Fox News.

lmao

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