I’ve seen more of Europe than the States; It’s time to take action! Let’s find out what Hot Sake -husband- and I will discover while driving through the USA… with our two cats and dog!
Do you find there to be a difference amongst the terms “African-American”, “Afro-Caribbean” and “African immigrant”?
Am I the only one who is annoyed by legitimate blanketed references, simply because a group share similar skin-tones?
I – especially – hate that the label “African-American” is used incorrectly; I know plenty of non-black humans (or people of “non-color”) who are from Africa!
To contradict myself (Mommy always called me, “Mary, Mary, quite contrary”), I’ll say that I prefer flavors for everyone’s ethnicities (as I’m sure you’ve figured out from this author’s self-description)– they’re more fun and sexy terms of endearment, by my standards (I do not claim to be correct in the accuracy of my nicknames:)
Vanilla = Caucasian
Chocolate = Black, Negro, Negroid (You may call me, “Negroida” {I’m sure, Cat Woman would have a superhero cousin, like me, named that.} By the way, have I mentioned how I long to be in alliance with “Xena: Warrior Princess“, Grace Jones and “La Femme Nikita” <My favorite part of LFN starts at 4:44.>? [Yes, I know– off topic– I digress…])
Cafe con Leche = Hispanic
Sake = Japanese (“Hot Sake”, if the lucky fool is my husband 😉 )
Ginseng = My blanketed (but insignificant in comparison to the above subject matter’s) version of other Asians (“Hot Dim-Sum” if one is sexy and Chinese)
Vodka = Russian or someone of a Slavic background
(a hot spread of) Tahini or Hummus = of Israeli/ Middle-Eastern decent
Bailey’s Cream = Irish
(“have the fever for the flavor of¹”) Curry = of Indian decent
Mocha~Latte = Mixed-up with a whole lotta good stuff!
~ANYWAY~
I was updating my performer profile and decided to search the web to see whether or not it would be excessive to double-hyphenate my chosen ethnic description of being referred to as “Afro-Caribbean-American”. In the process, I encountered this topic and video onAfro-EuropeInternational Blog‘s page.
Let me know how you feel… Keep it peaceful, please!
Sacrifice– giving up an apostrophe for a hash mark (Editor’s note: This little poem actually sounded cool, in my head, but lack of punctuation screwed me over:)
This past Friday night was the fun-filled Karaoke Battle USA viewing party for the East Coast Regional finalists who represented New York City on the show. There was a great amount of enthusiasm in the room as all supported the group of competitors who would vie for crowns held by “karaoke royalty” with hopes of heading off to Ireland as representatives of the United States in the Olympic-like battle grounds of the Karaoke World Championships.
I, particularly, felt pride in “Team NYC” for gaining national attention because I had almost been there with them, but fell short after the New York State semi-finals, leaving me to hand over the baton… or rather, microphone, in the race to would-be stardom on a series judged by the likes of Carnie Wilson, of girl-group “Wilson Phillips” fame, Joe Levy of Rolling Stone Magazine, and the veteran performer to an empty orchestra (the Japanese meaning for “karaoke”), Brian “The Cowboy”” Scott.
After the hour-long program was over, many of we competitors and enthusiasts got together with the live-band to put on a little showcase of our favorite tunes to entertain the rest of the patrons at O’Flanagan’s, the great, Irish pub on the Upper-East-Side of Manhattan.
Here’s my rendition of “Creep”, by the alternative rock, Radiohead (I would have also shared my interpretation of Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”, but the batteries in my video camera died 😦 ):
The easiest thing that one can do to make me despise another and give out the “stink-eye of death” is to loudly hock up phlegm and spit it out in public; This is particularly a dangerous action to attempt on a subway platform, near me, because, if not for my limited self-control, I could be inclined to PUSH SAID PERSON on to the BLASTED TRAIN TRACKS!!!!
~GET SOME CLASS, PEOPLE… that is one of the MOST DISGUSTING, LOW-LIFE things in the WORLD!!!!!! I heave at the thought.
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