Track 6: Ignant

What the hell is this? Why do we act this way? And furthermore, this is scene as a joke. The subtitles are off, probably to add to the humor. Ridiculous.

Track 5: School Row

In the small town of Camden, Australia, there's a racist fight against the building of an Islamic school.

Some of the loudest cheers of the night greeted a speech from a local man in his late 70s.

"Can I just say this without being racist or political?" he said. "In 1983, in the streets of London a parade by Muslims chanted incessantly 'If we can take London, we can take the world'. Don't let them take Camden."

Right...because every time you have the disclaimer "not to be racist but..." always mean you're not racist.

You can read the full article here courtesy of BBC.

Track 4: Blacks in a White Restaurant

So I'm currently in north Carolina, and of course it wouldn't be a trip to the South without some racist moment occurring. We went to this restaurant called Bonefish Grill on Market Street. Dinner was fine and service was great, considering we were a party of around sixteen. When we entered, we noticed we were the only blacks in the restaurant. There was a Lakers game that was about to come on while we were at dinner and earlier in the evening one of my cousins asked if they could change one of their large HD TVs to TNT to show the game. No response. When our meal ends, we ask once more. Again, the bartenders/waitresses by the tvs didn't even flinch when they were asked to change the channel. My mom called the manager over, which took close to five minutes for him to get to our table. The restaurant wasn't terribly busy, mind you. When he came my mom asked why our request wasn't completed and if it was policy to not change channels but he said that it wasn't a problem and apologized, though he kept insisting that the channel was changed, and we disagreed with him.

We were fine when we were paying, but once we made requests the staff became ignorant. And of course they don't see anything wrong with it either.

Track 3: All-American

What does it mean to be "All-American"? Am I All-American? What are the qualifications?

I ask in response to gay personal ads where men describe themselves as "All-American." It led me to ask myself "what does it mean to be "All-American?" All of these men that use this qualifier are white muscular men, generally blond and brunette. And because of the number of responses and the variety in those replies, The way its portrayed in these ads don't have a universal meaning. All-American can be for a collegiate athlete, something I'm sure most of these men are not.

It's funny that All-American is also included with the phrase "Straight acting." Why do gays still hate on themselves? First off, what does straight-acting even mean? That you drink Bud Lite, like monster truck rallies, and wear unflattering clothes? In that case I'm not straight acting at all! And proud of it too.

I think that many gay men still have a inferiority complex. They have internalized heterosexual supremacy. They think that gay is still wrong and they have to be as close to "straight" as possible, whatever that means. Which is funny, seeing as how there isn't even a real way that most straight men act. It's problematic and I don't see it going away, seeing as how a good 70% of gay men wear Abercrombie and Fitch, quite possibly the biggest label of idealized whiteness that continues to perpetuate that idea.