Get mistaken for a Mormon once in Popeyes and the next thing you know @LDSSpiritualThoughts is following your ass on Twitter! While I'll admit I do have a long-standing crush on Steve Young -- he and his wife are even LGBT-friendly types -- that's where my interest in the Latter-Day Saints ends!Friday, March 11, 2011
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Get mistaken for a Mormon once in Popeyes and the next thing you know @LDSSpiritualThoughts is following your ass on Twitter! While I'll admit I do have a long-standing crush on Steve Young -- he and his wife are even LGBT-friendly types -- that's where my interest in the Latter-Day Saints ends!
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That's what you get for wearing a necktie in this slob society.
Is there something significant about the "dude's" race? Just curious as to why you specified that he's black.
seriously man, you've got to branch out in your wardrobe. Maybe a shirt with color and/or pattern?
Why does it matter that he is black? Why not "dude just asked..."
@Rog and Robert:
Is there something pertinent about it being a "dude" or at "Popeyes" -- or even "LDS"? Why not just say a "person" at a "restaurant" asked Michael and me if we were a "certain religion"? Oh, wait -- they're DESCRIPTIVE words (and facts) that bring detail and -- dare I say to you -- color to a story and give the reader a better picture of the scene as it happened. Having grown up in the second-most Mormon-populated city in the world, I actually found it EXTREMELY interesting slash hilarious that a young black guy in New York City sees two WHITE dudes in white shirts and ties and immediately associated it with being a Mormon. ("Young" got scrapped due to Twitter character limitations.)
I think you're getting your wires crossed with the journalistic principle of not referring to race in news stories unless it is deemed significantly relevant, where it runs the risk of perpetuating stereotypes. Either that, or you're just looking to pick a bullshit fight to make yourself think you're more enlightened or evolved than I am. YAWN.
lol!
i see white guys in dress shirts and ties and immediately think "falling down"!
I was in a (am I allowed to say Spanish?) restaurant last night and this African-American couple was sitting next to me (don't worry, there's a reason I mention their race). I overheard the wife talking to the husband about their son's "coach" (not sure what sport). Within seconds she told her husband that he was "some white guy."
Would that offend you?
Is this a case of it being OK because she's a member of a long-discriminated against minority?
Or was she just trying to give her husband some context of who the coach was? (Perhaps like Ken was.)
Or should she have not brought it up (as some of you think Ken should not have)?
Not looking for a fight, just curious what people think.
peace
david in brooklyn
....like the hot waiter and hot conflicted missionary guy in the movie "Latter Days".......yummy
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