View From The Porch: Overheard in Roomie's Bedroom...

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Overheard in Roomie's Bedroom...

The Today show is parading Martin's parents to cheerlead this morning's Two Minutes' Hate:

Mr. Martin: "What if it had been your unarmed child...?"

Me: "My child wouldn't have been beating his head against the sidewalk!"

RX: "Your child is a cat."

Details, details.

20 comments:

Stuart the Viking said...: I donno... if Zimmerman had a particularly yummy treat and teased him, I get the impression that Huck might have gone for it.

s; 8:06 AM, July 18, 2013
Joel said...: If Huck were a black cat, it would be different.; 8:11 AM, July 18, 2013
Tam said...: Joel,

I pointed out to Bobbi that my cat, Rannie, was a cat of color, while her cat, Huck, was a creepy-ass cracker cat. She says I'm wrong, and red tabby is a color.; 8:20 AM, July 18, 2013
Tam said...: I still say he's a white red tabby.; 8:20 AM, July 18, 2013
leaddog said...: OH OH OH!!!!! (waving hand like Arnold Horshack) CALL ON ME! CALL ON ME! I would love for my 15 seconds of fame to be a verbal beat down on some insipid idiot who asked me that question on live TV.

Some guys get to have all the fun...; 8:22 AM, July 18, 2013
Ken said...: Snuffleupagus trotted them out on GMA today, too.; 8:46 AM, July 18, 2013
Joel said...: I can never keep straight which cat is officially owned by whom. Roberta must understand that merely being "of color" is not sufficient. You and I, though certainly melanin-deficient, still have color. White is a color, it's just the *wrong* color.

In a world where a half-white guy is black and a half-black hispanic guy is white, I find the whole color thing far too confusing and I've just given up on it. Things were simpler when I was young. But I think we can all agree that if you don't hate Zimmerman you're a hater. No matter what color you are.; 9:19 AM, July 18, 2013
Joel said...: Actually, I kind of hate Zimmerman for not being named Rodriguez or something.; 9:21 AM, July 18, 2013
Tam said...: "But I think we can all agree that if you don't hate Zimmerman you're a hater."

That's the internet for today, folks. Thanks for playing. :D; 9:22 AM, July 18, 2013
Scott J said...: Red tabbys are the gingers of catdom.; 9:40 AM, July 18, 2013
Buzz said...: My melanin is "on call," readily showing itself only when needed for repeated exposure to the flaming ball of hydrogen that powers all life on this rock.
Blue eyes, a recessive phenotype that passed by my parents and other siblings, are bonus points that always seem to get me associated with Chaps ads or aspiring youth groups in the Danube valley.
My color? Green, but I can't find any racial classifications in which to pigeon-hole myself, save for some chick James Tiberius banged.
My cats are various shades and swirls of white, black, and gray. I supposed I should just say they're "1 to 50."; 9:49 AM, July 18, 2013
Buzz said...: It's that non-Latino last name that got this whole "white Hispanic" meme started, Joel.
Some ethnoblinded hatemonger saw that name on a report and started salivating dollars.; 9:52 AM, July 18, 2013
Joel said...: Hooah! I went outside to tend my chickens and came back to find it really is hip to be square.; 10:10 AM, July 18, 2013
Joseph said...: Extra points if you understand Joel's reference.

(Witness my mad typing skillz...the twenty four pounds of Pug on my lap gets in the way...and his name is NOT Huey...); 11:56 AM, July 18, 2013
rickn8or said...: "Red tabbys are the gingers of catdom."

Discuss: "Are red tabbys as bereft of souls as other gingers?"

And Buzz, yes I believe that somewhere along the line someone in the food chain thought they had another Bernard Goetz situation and started the propaganda machine. By the time they discovered Zimmerman's actual background, it was too late to turn it off.; 12:10 PM, July 18, 2013
Rob K said...: My cats all have Siamese in them. Being of Asian origin, they're good at math and don't count as "cats-of-color".; 1:00 PM, July 18, 2013
Sigivald said...: It's that non-Latino last name that got this whole "white Hispanic" meme started, Joel.
Some ethnoblinded hatemonger saw that name on a report and started salivating dollars.

True fact (or close enough).

I recall Reynolds, yesterday, pointing to death threats that a "Jorge Zimmerman" was getting via Facebook.

Our race-minded multicultural betters forget that Germany has huge historical ties with Mexico (... and there's like 150 years of German immigrant history in Texas), thus leading to a whole lot of Hispanics with Kraut surnames.; 2:13 PM, July 18, 2013
Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...: "All cats are grey by night." Although Lazarus Long disagreed.; 3:05 PM, July 18, 2013
mikee said...: When my baby sister was 10 she found an abandoned kitten in a grocery store parking lot and convinced my mom to let her bring him home.

He was solid white with a large black spot on its back, and became the only cat in the US ever named "Spot" because her 10 year old owner thought it apropos.

When we realized the spot was black oil from hiding under cars, and the kitten was finally degreased, he became a solid white feline. And he was long haired.

We had a solid white, long-haired cat named "Spot" for many years.

He was a speciesist, not a racist, and hated dogs.; 9:31 AM, July 19, 2013
Buzz said...: "Are red tabbys as bereft of souls as other gingers?"

I don't know about souls, but they can be extremely useful to have around. As a child, my father taught me measuring systems for construction. The smallest unit of measure was red cat hair. The actual distance varied, depending on how many beers he was in to the project.; 11:23 AM, July 19, 2013