Something that caught my eye the other day that I had to fight not to laugh at...?

Somehow I did manage not to laugh until she was gone, but still... just ~wrong~!! Sarcasm or not... the way I see it is you (as a race) don't fight for years and years for equal rights and against being owned just to turn around and put on a shirt (jokingly or otherwise) that you belong to the government, might as well have said "SLAVE"... nice joke...

Because, although I would still be bewildered if it were a purple with hot pink polka dots girl wearing it, there is the extra-special irony of the equal rights movement that this girl's parents or grandparents and relatives further back were likely involved in in effort to try to eradicate the idea that (especially) African Americans (can I start calling myself a Scottish/French American and be offended if someone simply calls me "white"?) are property or somehow less than people who are simply genetically prone to having lighter skin pigmentation. I called her a "black" girl because while I might not be completely politically correct, I'm not going to call her a "colored" girl or worse, but I absolutely despise the term "African American", I don't know a single honky who insists on "German American" or "Slavo-American", "Irish American" or anything else... if you're west of Europe, north of Mexico, and south of Canada, and a citizen, you're an American. There, I said it.