anti-white? what?

yesterday someone told me i was anti-white. i thought that was funny. then i kept thinking: i guess that's better than being anti-any other race. for the record, i don't think i really am anti-white; however, if you want to get me fired up, ask me how i feel about white privilege.

if you didn't know, i read other people's blogs. my friend anna says i probably have a pseudo relationship with blogs, like hers and his and hers and his. this is probably true, anna. i do have a pseudo relationship with blogs (thanks michele and dana for introducing me to pseudo relationships!) all this to say, today this was posted on seth godin's blog:

"When I was in college, a local human rights group posted up signs around campus one Monday. They read:

On Wednesday
Wear Blue Jeans
If You Are Gay

This is brilliant marketing. On Wednesday morning, you needed to have a discussion with yourself. "Should I wear jeans?... if I'm in the closet... or if I'm supportive of the quest for rights... or if I don't want to stand out... what will it mean if I don't wear jeans? Or if I wear jeans and didn't know about the sign..."

This, of course, was precisely the point. It started internal debate which led, all day, to spoken discussion. Which raised the issue.

A huge amount of marketing is about "in" or ignore. This is about "in" or "out." By forcing people to make a choice, they created a conversation.

Check out what happened in Nova Scotia last week."

interesting how so many different points of my life are intersecting in regard to race and ethnicity. cool.