Melancholy and Racism
May. 18th, 2007 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
I'd been fighting back the melancholy for the better part of two weeks (mostly because I wasn't sure how my parents were doing after the death of our neighbor) but, of all things, an emotional funk came at me today, triggered by (of all things) a Motown R&B ballad on the muzak at Big Lots. (I was there in a search for a power supply for my digital camera. I'll probably get the one I saw at Office Max.) So far the sorrow has been on my head for about eight or nine hours and no signs of it going away anytime soon. I've got a cup of green tea brewing, I hope it helps, but I don't have all that much faith in it.
Meanwhile, I should disclose that I had had the thought of kidding that to memorialize the passing of Jerry Falwell, the local chapter of the KKK would hold a twenty-one burning cross salute. It turns out there will in fact be a white supremacist rally, probably in Knoxville, probably Saturday. The excuse is the upcoming trial for a gang of alleged thugs (who happen to be black) who allegedly carjacked and killed a young couple (who happened to be white) some months ago.
I hate racists. But I guess you knew that.
FP (who is staying out of Knox County till whatever happens blows over)
I'd been fighting back the melancholy for the better part of two weeks (mostly because I wasn't sure how my parents were doing after the death of our neighbor) but, of all things, an emotional funk came at me today, triggered by (of all things) a Motown R&B ballad on the muzak at Big Lots. (I was there in a search for a power supply for my digital camera. I'll probably get the one I saw at Office Max.) So far the sorrow has been on my head for about eight or nine hours and no signs of it going away anytime soon. I've got a cup of green tea brewing, I hope it helps, but I don't have all that much faith in it.
Meanwhile, I should disclose that I had had the thought of kidding that to memorialize the passing of Jerry Falwell, the local chapter of the KKK would hold a twenty-one burning cross salute. It turns out there will in fact be a white supremacist rally, probably in Knoxville, probably Saturday. The excuse is the upcoming trial for a gang of alleged thugs (who happen to be black) who allegedly carjacked and killed a young couple (who happened to be white) some months ago.
I hate racists. But I guess you knew that.
FP (who is staying out of Knox County till whatever happens blows over)
