Andrea Harner
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October 20, 2006

911 call the other night

The other night we were hanging out in our living room when we heard loud, angry yelling that sounded like this: "Bitch, I know you live on the third floor!! Why won't you come down here, you slut? Are you too fucking scared, you cunt? Tell me what apartment you live in! I've gotta gun on me. I swear I'll come up there!" Except I missed the gun part. I was so annoyed at how loud and offensive he was being that I yelled, "shut up!" out the window which of course riled him up (good job, Andrea, lots accomplished!) He then repeated the gun thing and Jonah suggested we call the cops. I was completely amazed at this option which I hadn't even remotely thought of. So he called and reported this guy. I heard him describe him as wearing as a white hat, white sneakers and black t-shirt and jeans. Then he answered what was obviously a question about the boy's race and said, "white or hispanic...can't really tell, maybe sounds hispanic...not sure". He then declined to leave our phone number and when he go off the phone he said, "Isn't it funny that the race options were black, hispanic, white and no mention of asian?? Especially since we are so close to Chinatown???" And I thought, MODEL MINORITY!!!! YEEEEAAAHH!!!



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Model minority, yeah! Found your particular 'blog on this day very interesting. Stereotypes, hmmm. Yeah, South-East Asian indeed the model minority. I guess South-East Asians are more reknowned for clever "financially oriented" crimes e.g Triad Gang; money money money, lucky 888, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad
instead of "crimes of passion" or emotionally motivated crime. Still, i don't really like these stereotypes, of any race, gender, religion, etc.

Posted by: Nicole at October 20, 2006 12:30 PM

oops, missed a letter on my gmail...not expecting you to reply anyhoo. But yeah, these incredible stereotypes are why i left my previous occupation. No matter...they (stereotypes) continue to persist, hey.
Love your 'blogs, btw.

Posted by: Nicole at October 20, 2006 12:53 PM

hispanic is not a race. we're made up of lots of races.

Posted by: maria at October 24, 2006 12:33 AM
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