Most Ignant thing you've heard in class/anywhere
 

Got this from a facebook group entitled "you say some ignant sh!t in class, I should cut you, but I want to graduate"

I know there have been more than one instance when you're in class, having a conversation with people, or just listening on others' convos and you hear someone say some ridiculously ignorant comment, especially in regards to sexual orientation, race, class, gender, ability, religion, etc.

What situations have you been in that you'd like to share?

Most of mine didn't come about til college..well h.s. yes but the college ones are more shocking cause..well we're all supposed to be 'smart' right? :rolleyes:

In my Anthro class on Race & Identity, we were talking about the correlation between Race and Class, this one dude goes on to say the following:

"I don't think there is a correlation between race & class, I mean I watch a lot of 'cribs' and they always show the Black rappers with the big houses and large chains"

this came after he touched on mobility of Blacks in America:
"I think we'll see a female president before a Black one, but Black people can be rich without having to be president, like basketball players and rappers"

One this year, that had I allowed myself to do what I wanted to do, I would've been ejected from my university PRONTO!

I'm a sociology senior and I was in a Soc 101 course..i needed a blowoff course so I took it, but I knew it was going to be hell because I was with freshmen who had the whole world figured out..ironically it was the poli sci, pre-med seniors who were totally clueless.

the MONDAY after the Northern Illinois shootings occurred the professor decided to ask us to analyze the profiles of school shooters who are dominantly white middle class males, I respond with:

Me: well if we are looking at it sociologically, wouldn't the angst be a construct especially with regards to White Heterosexual Middle Class Christian Males
Prof: Let's not assume they have everything made for them, anyone else
Pre-Law Student: Well alot has to do with the amount of pressure we have to succeed, but you wouldn't know anything about that

Well :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: I responded with 'that doesn't justify someone killing someone else, and excuse me I grew up in a poor neighborhood to a poor family and I still made it here and I don't know about pressure to succeed?'

Man, I wanted to kick that dudes azz for saying that, how is it our 'future' can be so IGNANT :mad::mad:

in a lounge
random guy: what country is that flag
Me: Guyana
Random guy: oh you are caribbean me too!!!
Me: oh!!! where are you from??
Random guy... Detroit!
me: bye

girl in class: I'm sorry I didn't mean to laugh at you but I couldn't help myself!
me: So are you telling me you are incapable of controlling your own actions? That's your excuse hurting someone's feelings?
girl: yes, isn't that good enough?

random guy on the net: "I don't have a problem with people like you who come to believe in God of their own free will, but everyone knows Christians are just a bunch of mindless sheep who've all been brainwashed. There's no way you came to God on your own--that's impossible. You were socialized into it."
me: "Wait, you said you have no problem with me because I came to God on my own but now you just said you believe that's impossible."
random guy: Ummmm......

girl: You don't do anything but put people down.
me: All I said was that you couldn't look at my report. I was perfect cordial about it.
girl: Whatever! You are nothing but a child, you had no right to speak to me like that.
me: So you've upgraded from insulting me to namecalling. That's mature.
girl: YEAH BOO BOO I ALWAYS UPGRADE!

president of my school: "Research shows that conservatives are having more children than the liberals. That means the Christians will soon outpopulate the nonbelievers! We're overtaking them! :mad:

teacher: We all know what it's like to be followed around a store because we're black.
me: Yes, we do!
girl: Now CG you know nobody's every followed your light behind.
me: So you think light-skinned people don't deal with the same issues other black people do?
girl: Of course not, you aren't really black. You'll never have to deal with someone accusing you of stealing or calling you the "n" word. That stuff doesn't happened to light-skinned people and you know it.

white guy: I have a joke I know you're gonna love! So why are black people getting stronger?
Me: uuuuhh.....why?
white guy: Because TV sets are getting heavier!
*dead silence*
me: I don't think that's very funny.
white guy: Why not??? :confused:

*girl and I are talking and skin color comes up somehow. I make some mention of her being dark-skinned*
girl: *flips from laughing to angry* Don't call me dark. (she's about a shade darker than Kelly Rowland)
me: Honey, what's wrong with being dark? You're beautiful.
girl: I AM NOT DARK-SKINNED, STOP SAYING THAT!!
me: No offense, but what other shade am I supposed to call you? You should be proud, your skin is gorgeous.
girl: I'm not dark, stop saying that! Just because I'm not light like you or have your hair...
me: What the hell are you talking about, all I do is put mine in a ponytail. You're the one who knows how to do hair. You can do more with your short haircut (it fell just below her ears) than I could ever do with mine, your hair is beautiful!
girl:MY HAIR IS NOT SHORT AND I AM NOT DARK!!! DON'T SAY THAT, GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!!

Man...Some people just...dang.

Wow. She kicked you out of her room? Sounds like the girl in your last post had some serious personal problems...

I have a similar reaction when people call me light. :cool: Well, not exactly. I have never kicked anyone out of my room. :)

WOW. Ok, christiangirl...ya friend was trippin!!! OH, and I LOVE your Harry Potter reference:D

NOW--
I was in a chat room and guy said that Barak Obama was the speaker for Black America because a survey said that a majority of African Americans were voting for him.

OH and a guy in a forum referred to a Dashiki and Kufee as "Jack-in-the-box" Muslim garb.

I gotta stay out of those damned political forums...

This is pretty funny though

One day in college this girl asked me what sport I played. Mind you, I am full-figured and far from athletic looking. Clearly she thought the only way African Americans were getting into Villanova was through the athletic department.

One of my students asked me what I meant by underline.

For some of y'all that don't know... Africa is now considered a country. Lol..! I heard this from a grown man.

in walks the only white girl in one of my Af-Am studies class, upset at the news that a(nother) black professor was leaving our university, stating, "did you hear Professor Smith is leaving? I SO wanted to have his black babies."

rest of (black and other minority) students: :shock:

Yep, I used to get that one, too.

In high school, there was a girl who always asked me questions because I was the only one nice enough to not whoop her behind for asking. My favorite was "What's up with black people and fried chicken?" :rolleyes:

When I was a kid in h.s. in SoCal mid-1980's.

3 white dudes in my calculus class were talking about going to college.

Dude 1: Hey, what school are your going to.
Dude 2: IDK, probably UCLA...
Dude 3: DUDE! You can't go to UCLA, they have to accept all those Black people
Dude 2: Well, if they have to accept all those Black people, then they have to accept us at a Black school
Dude 1: What Black school? Grambling?

Then they saw me... :mad:




Current encounter--2007:

Boss: The only reason why AKA_Monet is here is because she is Black and the only way she got her Ph.D. is through Affirmative Action...
LMF: (Laughing)
Azn Dude: (Shock)

Next day, I found out, I called my husband and he said "I want you to leave."




Welp 21 years and ZERO change in race relations for my life!

:eek::mad: Wooooooooooooooooow at the 2007 encounter. You'd think your own co-workers would have enough sense and logical thinking skills to know that there is no such thing as an Affirmative Action degree, and that earning a Ph.D takes years of research and writing for anyone. SMH

Apparently, that did not matter to them... Reason for my departure. That amount of torture was not worth it to me or my health... And I am almost 40... :eek:

So yeah, it happens. A Ph.D. is not enough... That's a book in fact...

now this is funny, but not at all surprising. an assignment i had in an African Music class included the question "how many countries are in Africa?" and this dude asks "Umm, professor, is this a trick question?"

My professor says, "depends, what's your answer?"

and this rather pompous arse goes "well i never thought that it wasnt a country. but hey, what do i know?"

fast forward to our final. the professor puts it on our final as a bonus question but doesnt tell us how many points it was worth. Not only did more than half the class STILL answer "One," but the ones who got it correct got bumped the next grade up on their final grade.

(Not that the class was incredibly hard to begin with, but if your overall grade was a B+, then you got a A-. I guess that helps, if say, you screwed around all semester and pulled off a C- or something.)

the point of the story, i guess is :rolleyes:.

:eek: :eek: :eek: Brain just shut down for a second, Monet. :mad:

I had a similar one in hs...

him: Affimative action is so stupid! My sister can't get a scholarship to college because all these underachieving, bare minimum black people are taking them! I mean it's so--
**sees me and starts looking uncomfortable**
me: That's dumb. No offense to your sister, but if she's not the best applicant, she won't get the scholarship. Period.
him: *opens mouth, sees my fierce look, then scoots away nervously* :D

You know, I tried to tell the University of California students how to combat the anti-affirmative action-ites... And all I got was blank stares...

What I said was:

Me: Affirmative action should be supported... What it does is give chances to students who have been historically discriminated against by government doctrine.

Anti's: Well you aren't now!!! If they cannot get in on their own merit, then they don't deserved to be admitted.

Me: But merit alone is not sufficient enough to say the potential of that student and what he or she will become after graduation...

Anti's: Blank stare

Me: You call yourself a Christian? You believe in Jesus Christ? That Christ died on the cross for your sins and He makes intercession for you with God?

Anti's: Yes! I am the most Evangelical Haggard Christian in the whole wide world!!! I know the ENTIRE Bible and can quote every scripture to anyone. I am Christ's number one fan!!! I've got my first class ride to Heaven's Gate. I interpret the Bible LITERALLY!!!

Me: If Jesus can show me Affirmative Action, then how come you can't?

Anti's: THAT'S NOT THE SAME!!!

Me (calmly): Oh so you are the Devil? ;)

Anti's: blank stare and disbelief

Me: Didn't Christ say, that "one can only come to God but through me"...

Anti's: That's not what He meant... (Storms off)

"That's not what He meant!!!"

Dead weak. :D:D:D

"Black people complain about getting special attention from the police, but then you want special attention when it comes to college admissions. You can't have it both ways."

"I don't think we should automatically look at it as an injustice. I mean, some people are happy working in sweatshops. They just don't have very high goals in life." (about China!)


A little lighter...

"Why doesn't your hair, you know, move? Like Tia and Tamera's?"

^^That girl's mom comes into my house, looks at my mom's kimono hanging and says "Wait, this isn't African-American.:confused:"
lol. I didn't know we could only have art from our own culture.

If I had a dime for every non-black person who asked "Can I feel your hair?" Sallie Mae would be non-existent in my life. One hs classmate couldn't grasp the concept of a relaxer, so I snipped out a tiny piece of my hair (back then, I didn't care) to show her how my root was curly and the rest of it was straight. 4 other girls leaned in and all of them went "Ooooooh..." at the same time. If we weren't whispering in the middle of class, I would've cracked up. It was like the aliens in awe of Buzz Lightyear. :rolleyes:

Ironically, that class was Af-Am Lit. I had almost signed up for Irish Poetry (I was really interested in it) and when I asked my cousin which one I should take she said "Um, isn't that obvious?" I said "So black people can only take African-American Lit?" and she said "Well, duh." :confused:

My parents are of the OLD SKOOL where kneegrows need to get their hurr processed... So of course where I work, folks are rather clueless. Anyhow, the women kinna get it because I have them thinking it's like a "spa day" kinda thing where you get color--my hair is rather long and ultimately thick...

So if I get my hurr all hooked up, I got my co-workers saying--oh, so your parents must be coming into town. :) At least I get the female co-workers cover me saying I have a "Doctor's appointment"--most of my bosses have been male so they just don't want to ask...

The last place I worked, I had a gay guy covering for me, that helped alot... I don't like Saturday appointments, too many kids jumping all over the place.

That is a sad testament to the social/political/economic dynamics in this country. I often wonder how much Obama's candidacy and hopeful, ascension to the presidency will affect this dynamic.



The line that really gets under my skin is "Do you wash your hair?" from whites who want to inquire about my locs. Depending on the person asking, I will flip them off (Do YOU?) or educate them. Still it bothers me to no end.

Sorry--long...
 

The irony is that this boss is an Obama supporter... :eek:

His problem is he labels EVERYONE to bring "order" to his world, then blames it on his heritage that is quasi-ethnic. He is physically and mentally ill and is untreated. He has always been way out there--a odd sort of man, but because he is now old, it not just being cantankerous or ornery or funny old guy, it is dayum near OCD, schizophrenic, with psychosis and mania...

What is funny is he's a physician and there are all kinds of physicians around him that trained under him. What's sad is none of them want to treat him because he needs a psych eval before they go in there... It is so sad to see someone of his caliber become like this and he doesn't even care or know it is inappropriate behavior...

This dude does not shower... He really does not wash his hair... On hot days, he is ripe... He eats all kind of ways... He's abusive to his poor wife who many think is very intelligent as a scientist... He mismanages his type 2 diabetes, he's going blind in both eyes. He cannot stay awake, so now he take something likened to crystal meth... I mean dude is one cardiovascular accident away and that would not be shocking to anyone... What would shock us, is if he survived it...

No amount of educating would EVER help someone like him... The best I could do is take care of myself in that situation. So essentially, I flipped him off by leaving and saying I plainly don't care what he does to me professional/ruining my career, etc.

Also, my resolve is different. Why allow this asshole to tell me who I am and what I am all about? He does not know me, nor he is incapable of comprehending what I can do. And that means my Universe is unresponsive to his lowdown, fugly world... I am way beyond whatever he thinks he can muster against me. It all does not matter in the endgame. And I had to learn that to be able to say that about myself...

My friend's bf was talking about the state of third world countries and I forget the context, but he ended the sentence with "....like Africa and other barbarian countries."

I didn't know whether to be pissed the he called Africa barbarian or that he called it a country. :eek::mad::rolleyes:

With the whole "curious about black hair" thing:

In junior high, I was often the only African American in my honors classes. When it was time to look at hair strands under the microscope, they all wanted to see mine.

One of those heifers said "I think it moved!", knowing damn well it didn't.

In high school during a summer trip for a mentoring program, some of the chicks saw my hair wrapped one morning & thougt it was "so cool my hair could hold like that by itself"--eediots

BWAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:wassat:

I think one of the most ignorant things I've heard so far in college was in my African-American Studies class. We were discussing the many ways that racism shows up in our daily lives when out of the blue, this White classmate blurts out, "um...I think that if I was Black, I'd wanna be a lighter Black.....at least they're more attractive in the prostituting world." All I remember after that comment was the professor giving her the dirty look and asking her to leave the classroom. That classmate never came back either

Stupid, stupid, stupid.
 

One of the most ignorant things I heard:

I was taking a history class about the United States from the Revolutionary War period until just after the Civil War. My professor spent an ENTIRE class session dissecting slavery – why it was merely an economic system that got a bad reputation. He even ventured to say that he had conversations with many Blacks today who (after "extensive study") respected slavery for the financial powerhouse it was and wished its practice had been extended longer.

This is a predominately white university in the South. Even my white classmates were looking at our professor like :eek:. Several students raised their hands to comment or ask questions but were never called on. A few even walked out early, shaking their heads.

^^^I just got so mad that I had a hot flash. Now I'm mad AND hot. :eek:

So her main goal is to enter the prostituting world? Good luck with that.

:eek: That is OUTRAGEOUS!

My cousin told me that her boyfriend calls her "wet-wet." :mad: For some reason unbeknownst to me, she's proud of that.

I reiterate--:mad:.

I get so peeved at folks being QUICK to correct others when they say Obama is a Muslim..their tone used "No, he is not Muslim, he is a Christian"

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A MUSLIM, so someone confused the man's religion you don't need to dog the religion! :mad:

I know of a girl with a tattoo that says that. Tsk Tsk

Obama has been calling people on that behavior and has specifically reached out to Muslims similar to his Evangelical outreach.

A guy down the hall from me was ranting about how Obama's middle name was "Muhammed" and his first name rhymes with "Osama" and how he'll just die before a man with those names becomes president. :eek: First of all, I had to correct him on the middle name (while calling him an idiot in my mind) and tell him a lil' sumthin' 'bout himself. What does it matter what the man's name is or even what it rhymes with? :mad: That is not reflection on his beliefs and if it was, what's the harm? There's a Christian in the White House right now and Are We Happy?

Walking in the Park this Morning....
 

Some Random Girl: I am a vegetarian; I didn't say that I was going to stop eating meat.

This reminded me - I was at a cookout thrown by my husband's office buddies, and his co-worker's ditzy fiancee turned down the oysters, claiming she was vegan and couldn't possibly eat them. Then less than five minutes later completely went to town on the chicken wings, slurping on the bones and all. "I know I shouldn't, but I just looooove them!" :rolleyes:

Last night, I showed a (white) classmate a vid of me and my nephew playing "cops and robbers" in one of those ride-on cars in the mall (the kind you drop a quarter in and it rocks back and forth). Anyway, I was talking like Madea, just being funny making my nephew laugh. She watches the video frowning and says, "Why do you sound so black all of a sudden?"