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This week: Race mixing, interracial sex, jungle fever, mulattos, blue-eyed blonds, Mark Fuhrman and Marlyne Afflack--a Rant Line™ Black History Month special!! "edited" by AL SOUTH M I'm calling about the Mirror's article on MusiquePlus VJ Marlyne Afflack on Jan. 29. Although most of it was very positive, I think her final comments were outrageous. I mean come on, RACE MIXING is not the solution to racism. In that article, she suggests that if we promote race mixing, that by the year 3000 there won't be any blue-eyed, blond-haired people left. That's CRAZY. That has to be the most HEINOUS comment I've heard since the Mark Fuhrman tapes! Race mixing, especially between blacks and whites, will never work, for two main reasons. First of all--and this is very well known in the black community--MULATTOS, a product of black and white race mixing, are often more racist towards blacks than the average white person. So we're not solving anything there. I know mulattos will deny this, but dark-skinned blacks know what I'm talking about--they know the facts. Mulattos, especially those who are good looking, will nearly always date white people or other mulattos like themselves. Which brings me to my second point. People, in general, regardless of race and language and creed, will always be attracted to their own kind. And there is nothing wrong with that. I mean, you should have the right to be more attracted to your own people, your own race, without being called a RACIST. Likewise, you can also choose to date, or marry, outside your race, without being called a sellout or a traitor. What I'm trying to say here is that the challenge is not to get JUNGLE FEVER and practice interracial sex so that we all look alike by the year 3000. That's insane! The challenge is to remain who you are, to be able live in harmony, despite our differences. Diversity is beautiful, man. There is nothing wrong with blond hair, or dark skin, or SLANTED EYES. There is beauty in all these features. Finally, I'd like to say this: Marlyne Afflack's comments were unacceptable, irresponsible and downright racist. And you people at the Mirror condoned her silly comments by printing them. The only effective way to fight racism, man, is through education--you have to educate the children! If you can teach them all the wrongs that racism has caused in the world, maybe you can teach them to respect and love people, even though they look and sound different. Then you will have accomplished something. And in case you are wondering, I'm not WHITE. I'm BLACK, my name is Ozzie, and you can reach me at [leaves number]. Peace, I'm outta here. [BLEEP!] F Hi, I'm just wondering if someone out there who knows what goes on at the CBC or with kids programs can tell me why they changed the Polka Dot Door to the Polka Dot Shorts, 'coz I really don't understand the process by which they would have arrived at that type of change. I find it pretty upsetting, personally. [BLEEP!] F This rant is for all the young obnoxious girls at the Sugar Ray concert. Whatever possessed you to chase Mark the singer down the street, screaming MARRIAGE proposals at him?!? I don't think you know how annoying you are. He's just a guy, not a GOD. I bet he's got his own life and could probably care less about you girls. So why don't you take your teeny bopper-style back where you belong--to a Backstreet Boys concert. Thanks. [BLEEP!] M Hey, this is Matt from Just Missed. This is in regards to the dude who left a rant against us last week. Maybe if he wasn't so busy sucking on his MOM'S TITTIES he'd be able to see that there are plenty of good bands around Montreal. I'm sure we're not the best of them, 'coz I know for sure that we've spent plenty of time sucking on his mom's titties, too. That's what you've gotta do to get a show around here--any bands who find they're not getting enough shows, go suck that guy's moms titties! He does it and look at him: he's Mr. Know-It-All!! But if he had a brain in that little cheesehead of his, he'd know that Cali has been closed for almost a year. That's about it, keep up the good work everybody. And dude, keep your mom CLEAN for me. All right, later. [BLEEP!] F Any ECS and Selwin grads '97 know the story of the love triangle with Wendy, Lori and James. But as it turns out, James wasn't good enough, so they found happiness with each other later at the grad. We commend Wendy and Lori for bravely showing their true selves. As for James, we won't even go there. The big question, though, is where does that leave Rachel? [BLEEP!] M Yeah, so how many McGill Cultural Studies students does it take to change a light bulb? Four! One to do it, one to write an essay on The Dialectic of the Paradigmatic Shift Between Dark and Light in the North American Post-Colonial Subtext. And two to argue over it in the letters page of the Daily. HAHAHA. [BLEEP!] Next week: An attempt to get back on topic...
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