One of my signs of the apocalypse.

[raybear]

Last night after discussions of the possiblity of being a house boy and on my way to pick up Damon so we could hang out before he leaves town for two weeks, I passed a greasy diner quasi-Sonic's/Checkers type restaurant that had a sign out front with the following announcement:

TRY OUR NEW GHETTO FRIES

I nearly had an aneurysm and crashed the car. The use of that word will be the death of me, I swear. What the fck does that sign even mean? And why, oh why, do people use that word in such flippant privileged stupid white ways?

P.S. I was not even driving through a "ghetto".

Comments

[redrider.livejournal.com]

but who else is going to do it? or should do it?

this is always the key question for me, esp. when I'm having discussions around drag & race & what it means to perform transracial drag & so on. because, yesh, i feel like being a white girl doing this work may mean that I lack some sort of "authentic" 1st-person experience with the limits of this sort of performance (e.g., the audience-imposed limitations faced by some kings of color who want to perform music by white artists) -- but then, it also seems *so* wrong to place the burden of education/representation/agitation on non-white kings.

xoxo a.