Blog #4 Saying to much

Man he sure says too much..... Don't you hate it when somebody calls there self-joking and the joke becomes offensive? Like the jokes about being a "THUG" or being a "GANGSTA", or being from the "GHETTO". Then they go into detail about how they supposedly lived this "FAKE" thug life and they’ve been shot before. Just because I’ve gotten shot he’ll look over to me for confidence in that rude joke. I’m not a “THUG” nor do I think it’s funny. When they see a room full of Culture, but you and a few select other students are the only minority students in the room and out of everyone he chooses to come up to you and call you "SISTA",”GANGSTA”, “BROTHA”, OR “THUG”. How do you define joking from being serious? How do I know he's not serious? Or when he tells me he'll do whatever just because I’m his "SISTA". I don’t want privileges just because my skins color.  Is it cool or is it just saying and doing too much?

I like him so I never thought of it like that until a previous student brought it to my attention that he just says far too much and he described to me the things he use to say back when he was in V.O.I.C.E.S. in 2008. Sometimes when you say too much it can become offensive. Does he go up to anybody else and go "YO, WUD UP HOWS EVERYTHANG IN THE GHETTO?" Like seriously, I live in a more up scale neighborhood and my parents have worked hard to get to where we are and if they heard some of those stereotypical “saying to much” jokes they would become highly offensive.  There’s other ways to communicate with each other than being rude and crossing boundaries. I’ve never told him my true feelings about how I felt because I didn’t want to hurt his feelings. In reality sometimes he’s hurt my feelings to think less of me, to think less of my whole race and my whole culture based on what some of my race does, when every race has bad people or “THUGS” in it.  

(Just some examples) Or like when we first come to class and he’ll just simply suppose to be giving out directions, he’ll go into a complete different story and tell us something that has nothing to do with us and nothing that pertains to us and it just takes up a lot of time that could be used to do something else.

(Just some examples) Calling Mrs. Hodge the love doctor, that wasn’t very funny. It was just saying too much.