That White Bitch

Friday September 24, 2010 at 16:45

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Dear "Outsourced," Please Kill Yourself

What’s the Hindi word for “schadenfreude?”

OK, I have something to say about Indian Americans. (TL;DR!!!!!)

I know the title of this blog is “That White Bitch” and me and Monica talk about being gay black baptists at heart but the thing about Indians is it’s 2010 and we can’t say shit about any other race ever or we’ll get sued, yet as a culture we still seem to find an Indian American man with an Indian accent the funniest thing in the world.

I’m a white girl who grew up in a Latino-y neighborhood who’s first best friend was black. I went through a white phase during junior high and then met my current BBF, who is an Indo. During high school, us being best friends, I got acclimated to much of the Indian culture. Maybe this is why I spend a little more time reflecting on my status as a white female - because I am aware that other races exist, lol. (Honestly, if you met some of the whities I went to high school with in Naperville, Illinois, you would be surprised at how little they think about their whiteness.) OK, so I know I’m caucasian, I wanna marry a Jew and I wish I was black - just your average white bitch with a blog!

I will be the first to crack racist joke at a party but I’m not a real racist (even though we’re all kind of racist). I haven’t seen Outsourced but I agree with the writer of this story (who I was just going to email this response to but then looked him up and he’s kinda famous and you can’t just email him) - a show about a whitey in the middle of a Mumbai call center ON NBC? Sounds like a God damn black face routine. Like, Jesus, it’s about a subtle as a gun to the face. ”Look at all this weirrrrd food!” ”lol Y U guys lyke cows so much?” ”Do they even have slushees here????!”

Here’s my point - the reason why I think Americans are comfortable with laughing at people from India is first of all, they’re new to this country (relatively) and second, because when they come here they’re mad successful. They run Blimpies and Baskin Robbins during the day and they rock fuckin diamonds and Benz’s at night. Who’s always buying rounds of Kettle up in da club? Rich Indians. Who’s always jet setting around the world like it ain’t no thing? Rich Indians. Who’s having the most elabo parties this side of the Ganges? Indians (not even rich ones, all Indians have crazy parties - get schooled!!!).

While some could argue it was hella racist to make that Antione Dodson song (AKA my favorite song of all time), maybe the whities complaining about it are just uncomfortable/guilty/feel bad about where the black man resides on the socioeconomic scale. Indians, on the other hand, are doing alright financially/socially, etc. so that somehow equates to “LOLLLL a god with eight arms?” Sounds familiar to me.

In sum, just cuz some Indos be getting that scrilla doesn’t mean they don’t deserve the chance to fully assimilate into our fat, lazy culture without being laughed at.

(Source: gabedelahaye)

This post was reblogged from American Aquarium Drinker.