Current location:	In a chair....
Current mood:	contemplative
Entry tags:	avenue q, broadway, racist, rules

We're All a Little Bit Racist

I love theatre. I really do. I love theatre in all it's aspects--from Broadway to all of the touring companies that want to get to Broadway and then to the secondary plays that I watch and participate in in school. For some reason, a play can be as contraversal as one wants it to be, but on the other hand, a movie has to conform to the standards Hollywood sets for it. This is why I love theatre. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge movie buff and reguarly hit the movies once a week to watch anything from The Holiday to The Kingdom and then to Elizabeth or something like Stardust, but theatre opens up an entirely different world. 

For instance, you can talk about being racist, or being gay, and nobody cares. It's completely normal! Isn't that something to be desired? 

As for the title of this post, there's this play called Avenue Q which is basically this muppet show for adults, and one of the numbers in it is 'We're all a Little Bit Rascit'. It talks about everybody being racsits, and bloody hell, it's true! We all do it internally, even if we don't say it aloud. 

For instance, I'm racist about big, black guys. I happen to fit them all into the catagory of 'Please God, don't shoot me!' . See? It's not a big deal, and I don't walk up to them and go 'Excuse me, but could you really not join that gang I know your in and shoot me when you rob someplace?' . It's just internal. If you go the other way, for example, one might fit me into the catagory of White chick being a poser gothic girl. I take offense to that. Therefore, you are being racist. See? It's not a big deal, and I'm sure that everyone does it. 

What seperates us from the rest of the people who are really racist, is that they voice their opions loud and clear, while we do it internally. And then sometimes, racism is merly a condition we've been raised in. If you've been raised to tolerate people of all races, and grew up in a town where there were a mix of people, your less likely to be racists against people. However, if you a white person growing up in some rural suburban town in say...Alabama, then your probably going to act a little bit racist to black people. It s just the way you've been raised. 

Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to make excuses for people who are racists and voice those opions loudly, but maybe a little bit more understanding between groups of people and the acceptance that we all make prejudices against people who don't look normal or who don't fit into our definition of 'normal', might go along way into helping to create alittle more peace in the world. 

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In any case, since I'm actually going to try and update this with my life, I've created a set of rules so that I can spill my darkest feelings and not have to worry about friends reading this: 

I. I shall not name names.
II. I shall not curse.
III. I shall not name addresses.

Pretty simple eh? I can say whatever I want, even if It might offend them, but since I'm not specifically naming names, they don't know who I'm talking about!  [I hope! ]