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Dante’s Opinion: Am I being racist or is she being too sensitive?

Our first question is by Kim:

Am I being racist or is she being too sensitive? Background info: I’m a white/asian girl. She’s african american. We’re both in 7th grade and we are at a public school. So last Friday we were in PE and on the field. For some reason she says “For the record, (her name) is black.” and I said “I think we already knew that” and she was all like “What did you say” and then our PE teacher over hears us and then SHE comments all nonchalantly like “Yeah, (name) i think I knew that” and she (not the PE teacher) kinda glares at me. soon after my friend and i are laying down on the grass and she comes up to me and says “your asian and white, right? I say “yeah” and she says “well i could have been mixed too you don’t just assume that i’m black” and i say “look, i’m sorry if i offended you” and then she just walks away and i can CLEARLY her say “stupid racist b*tch”. Things like name calling dont really affect me so i just ignored it. then when we were going to our lockers and passing through the sliding gate that was kinda closed and we could only go single file. She was at the exit and i kinda look her in the eye and she looks down and then when i go through the gate she says something kinda loud that i couldnt understand and shoves me. I dont fall and i didnt hurt, but i was kinda annoyed. Then when we were going down the stairs to the lockers one of her friends says to her “i think you took that too far” and she says “I think SHE took that too far! ” and she points at me and I say kinda angry “look! I AM sorry if I offended you!” and she says “Yeah well, apology NOT accepted!” and i say “What do you want me to do?! Bow down to you!?” and she stink eyes me again then we go to our lockers. and so today we were playing softball and she just kinda chose her own team like “No! (name) can’t come in here!” and barring one of the dugouts. and one of my friends who was in the dugout told me that she told the people in the dugout (mostly her african american girlfriends) that I was racist. I grew up in a very pro-equality house, and I am pretty sure i am NOT RACIST. Can someone help me?

See, black people always want to make it about race. In this case, all you were saying is that she’s black. Being a racist means you think your race is better or at least you think their race is crap. If what you’re saying is true, then you were not racist. That girl needs to understand racism before talking about it. But, like I said, lots of black people play the race card, even when it’s not playable. She might have a “white man trying to keep me down” mentality that might have come from the parents. I’m gonna leave this alone.

Next is a question by Pretty_Princess:

What is you biggest pet peeve? Mine would have to be spitting! I hate when people spit in public!

Yeah I hate that too. However, people that use poor grammar whether in writing or speaking, really just pisses me off. I understand if English is not your first language though. Other than that, what the heck?

Last question is from Nicholas:

What is the definition of “Home” to you? Hello Everyone, I am doing a poll to understand what you all perceive as the definition of “home” and/or an epitome of what “home” as you determine. Please feel free to give extended definitions and thanks a lot in advanced. 🙂

I always associated home as the place I live in. My center. A place to escape the world, even if this home is in the world.

Remember to hit my “Ask Dante” page to send in questions you want my opinion on.

-DALANEL

Daily Good Stuff 193

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalm 57:10
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Daily Good Stuff 192

Another week of good stuff.

Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks. Isaac Watts

If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Philippians 2:1-4
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And I found this video. I have many doubts about this. A walking ladder? By itself? Eeeehhhhhh:

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A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money.

The old guy fingered his expensive wool vest and said, “Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel.”

“I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents.”

“The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5:00 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I’d accumulated a fortune of $9.80.”

“Then my wife’s father died and left us two million dollars.”

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A guy went to visit a friend at the hospital. His friend was all busted up and in several casts. After he determined that his friend would survive and eventually recover, he wanted to know what happened to his friend. Before he could ask, he heard his friend say “Talk dirty to Dr. Laura and she will take you out!” Wow! he thought, an opportunity to go out with Dr. Laura, my friend can wait, if I r…ush I can catch her at her book signing at the mall.
He got her latest book “Ten Thousand Stupid Things They Thought No One Could Possibly Do – And They Were Wrong”, waited in the signing line and met Dr. Laura. “Let me speak softly in your ear Dr. Laura, I have something private to say to you”, he said. Then he spoke so dirty, he even shocked him self. “What did you say” asked Dr. Laura, thinking she could not have heard what she thought she heard. He repeated it for her.
After a while the paramedics wheeled him into the hospital room next to his friend. He yelled to his friend, “Its your fault I’m in here, you said if I talked dirty to Dr. Laura, she would give me a date”. “Oh no” said his friend “she has a double super black belt in karate. I was warning you about what happened to me. I tried to talk dirty to her and she used that karate and took me out good fashion.”
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A man died in a horrible fire. The mortician thought it was George, but the body was so badly burned that somebody would need to make a positive identification. That task fell to George’s two friends, Joe and Al.
Joe: “He’s burnt pretty bad, all right. Roll him over.” Joe looked at the dead man’s buttocks and said, “Nope, that ain’t George.”
Thinking the incident strange, the mortician straightened up the body and said nothing. He brought in Al.
Al: “Wow, he’s burnt to a crisp. Roll him over.” Again, “Nope, that ain’t George.”
Mortician: “How can you tell?”
Al: “George had two assholes.”
Mortician: “What? How could he have two assholes?”
Al: “Everybody knew George had two assholes. Whenever the three of us would go into town you’d hear people say, “Here comes George with those two assholes!”
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Posting Schedule Change

In order to try to get more traffic, I’m going to change up my posting schedule a little bit. Here’s how it’s gonna go:

Featured posts will post in the morning while non-featured posts in the early afternoon. If there is a second non-featured post, it will appear early evening. Here are the exact times I’m shooting for:

Daily Good Stuff, Weekly News, Weekly Funnies: 7 am

Other featured posts: 7:15 am

Non-featured #1: 12 pm

Non-featured #2: 7 pm

All times are ET. This can open a window for people that are on the internet on various times of the day. Daily Good Stuff and its weekend pals stay in the morning because I’m still going for that “start your day off right” thing. Anyway, I’m going to try this new look for a week and if there’s no change or if things are worse, then I’ll just go back to the original deal. Blog updates would show up in the morning.

Lastly, there is a poll on the site now that does ask when you’re on the internet. I have blocks of time but you can add your own block of time (3 hour blocks). This way, I’ll have a better idea of when you’ll better see my content fresh off the blog. You can go to the DALANEL Polls page but the poll will be at the end of the post too.

Thanks for reading. Make sure you sign up for updates to your email so you never miss a post. Making the tweaks to make DALANEL better.

-DALANEL

Weekly News 8

It’s that time again! The latest, weird news, good news, positive news, and funny news.

First, we heard about the Kenya Mall attacks. And now, in the aftermath, we have to carry on (at least they do). Well, some youngsters are calling for unity, not reprisals.

“As Kenya searches for answers, Kenyan police and citizens must be careful to avoid the unjust profiling and hatred that will divide rather than heal a grieving people,” they wrote in the CS Monitor. “We know from experience that the best response to violence is through compassion, compromise, and community dialogue.”

Story is here.

For weird news, this is an update to a story I posted back in April. Read that first to catch up. It’s about a man who lost $500 because his dog ate it. Here’s the update:

Klinkel said he didn’t hear a word from the department until Monday, when he received a crisp $500 check in the mail from the Mutilated Currency Division to replace Sundance’s midday snack six months prior.

Nice. Good for him.

Okay, we have the shutdown going on but that’s not stopping people from doing good. Federal employees that are furloughed thanks to this shutdown are giving their time fixing up a church. I know “awwwww!”

How many of you love candy? Anybody like beer? How about candy beer? That’s right. Candy beer. And you can’t say “beer candy”. It’s candy beer. Yup, you can infuse candy flavors into the beer.  Check out how it works:

Randall Jr. boasts a simpler design for home use. It looks like a clear travel mug, but one with a double-decker lid. There’s a wire mesh that screws on top of the clear plastic cup, straining whatever is poured out of it, and a green cap that screws on top of the mesh, sealing the contents for freshness.

Simply place the ingredients you wish to infuse into your beer – be they hot peppers, fruit, herbs or candy – and then fill the chamber with beer, screw on the lid, and place it in the fridge for 20 minutes.

I just…I don’t know. The full story gives even more details.

For good news, and perhaps even funny news, a couple announced their baby in a pretty cool way:

Smith and his wife Chanel, both 24, posted a photograph to Instagram showing them slurping a spaghetti dinner next to a jar of Prego pasta sauce. To the top of the jar they taped a sign saying, ‘We’re’ so that the entire message read: ‘We’re Prego.’
Smith is Torrey Smith, who plays for the Baltimore Ravens. The article is here. The wife is kinda hot but I can’t tell by the picture.
Next, and this is for all you ladies out there, we have a new perfume…that smells like toast. Toast. As in, a slice of bread fresh out of the toaster oven. I don’t think there’s any butter, cream cheese, jam, or other topping on it. Just toast. And wait until you read the story because it’s sending a message, or at least it’s supposed to. There’s a “we’re toasted” joke in there, I just know it! But here’s the gist of what’s going on:
“It was deliberately slightly quirky to bring across the very serious message of the value of bread as part of a healthy balanced diet,” he said. “There are nutrients and vitamins that people actually get from bread. Contrary to what people think, it’s a low-fat food as well.”
Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t tell you the name of the perfume. You ready? Eau de Toast.

For this first go at weird news…well I’ll let the article explain it:

Yafet Askale, 28, denied entering the vehicle that police set up with a dye-trap in Harlesden, northwest London, to catch thieves in June. But he was found guilty of stealing objects inside the car after police produced photos showing his face covered with the liquid, invisible under normal light.

You have to hit the link. There’s a picture of him with the green. It’s creepy!

Next, we have a super hero. Yes, a man lost his job. So, the next logical thing of course is to dress up in tights and a mask and go outside and help the local community! The name is Captain Manchester. Good luck, sir.

A little girl, ten years old, raised $1,000 dollars for a bulletproof vest for a police…dog. Got ahead; take a look. I don’t always do animal stories like this but why not?

A 19 year old has a plan to clean the oceans of the world in five years. Listen…I actually don’t completely understand how it’s going to do it. But, he’s got people behind him so good for him. Did I mention he’s 19? Here I am; just a 22 year old on a keyboard. Sigh.

Whew! We made it to the end. Thanks for reading. I can’t wait to see what crazy stuff happens this next week.

-DALANEL