Comments on: The Extra Bone Bet http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/ Blogging sporadically since February 2001. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:46:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ArtLung Blog · Race & Cesar Chavez Day http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-317521 ArtLung Blog · Race & Cesar Chavez Day Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:23:29 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-317521 [...] I don’t think I’ve written about any of these things in the past. I have a tendency to push back against any kind of racist terminology or thinking. Most recently, I pushed back (read: overreacted) on my kids in this 2006 post: “The Extra Bone Bet.” [...] [...] I don’t think I’ve written about any of these things in the past. I have a tendency to push back against any kind of racist terminology or thinking. Most recently, I pushed back (read: overreacted) on my kids in this 2006 post: “The Extra Bone Bet.” [...]

]]> By: Jukebox JT http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10521 Jukebox JT Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:41:41 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10521 This is one of those old wives' tales that always makes me crazy. It's amazing how the facts can get distorted so easily. The original story isn't that blacks have AN extra bone. It's that they have extra bone. This is one of those old wives’ tales that always makes me crazy. It’s amazing how the facts can get distorted so easily. The original story isn’t that blacks have AN extra bone. It’s that they have extra bone.

]]> By: leahpeah http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10126 leahpeah Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:02:13 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10126 i still think you went way over with the theatrics in that situation and if you asked the boys now what they thought the conversation between you and them had been about they wouldn't bring up racism. they would say it was a bet. by creating a big stir about the money, you lost the opportunity to talk about why what they said upset you. it could have been a good learning experience for them. but instead it ended up just reaffirming that when joe really knows something, he bets crazy large. is that really what you wanted the outcome to be? because it sounds like you wanted to share something about racism and how the extra bone comment effected you. and i think you lost out there. i still think you went way over with the theatrics in that situation and if you asked the boys now what they thought the conversation between you and them had been about they wouldn’t bring up racism. they would say it was a bet. by creating a big stir about the money, you lost the opportunity to talk about why what they said upset you. it could have been a good learning experience for them. but instead it ended up just reaffirming that when joe really knows something, he bets crazy large. is that really what you wanted the outcome to be? because it sounds like you wanted to share something about racism and how the extra bone comment effected you. and i think you lost out there.

]]> By: Joe Crawford http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10108 Joe Crawford Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:04:17 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10108 Greg -- thanks. Mr. Sassburton -- yeah, both them and me! It's the testosterone school of discourse, argument, and debate. Greg—thanks.

Mr. Sassburton—yeah, both them and me! It’s the testosterone school of discourse, argument, and debate.

]]> By: Sassy http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10107 Sassy Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:01:32 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10107 boys will be boys. boys will be boys.

]]> By: Greg Duncan http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10081 Greg Duncan Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:37:05 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-extra-bone-bet/#comment-10081 Nice... I think you handled it very well. I've tried to raise my son (who's 12) to realize that racism, racial typecasting, religious stereotyping, etc, is just plain silly... We all breath the same air and bleed the same color. Thinking the color on the outside means anything is like thinking my red Honda Civic is faster than a white Honda Civic just because red is a "faster" color... sigh Sure no one is the same and have different strengths and weaknesses... That should be celebrated! Who'd want a world clones? How borning... Take care, Greg Nice… I think you handled it very well.

I’ve tried to raise my son (who’s 12) to realize that racism, racial typecasting, religious stereotyping, etc, is just plain silly…

We all breath the same air and bleed the same color. Thinking the color on the outside means anything is like thinking my red Honda Civic is faster than a white Honda Civic just because red is a “faster” color… sigh

Sure no one is the same and have different strengths and weaknesses… That should be celebrated!

Who’d want a world clones? How borning…

Take care,
Greg

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