Race and Rumors

[snopes]

I never got the e-mail about Obama being some type of Manchurian Candidate Muslim sleeper agent. I've never been sent a link showing him not pledging allegiance. And I never got anything questioning his early schooling. There's a whole plethora of urban legends and innuendo that I hear some of my white colleagues talking about that I've never seen in my in box.

This doesn't just go for Obama either. About a year ago, I was talking to someone, and he referred to all of the erroneous statistical information being circulated about people who had been relocated after Hurricane Katrina. Well, once again, this was the first I had even heard there was something circulating, but a couple of minutes at one of my favorite resources, Snopes.com, revealed, sure enough, there's a whole section of urban legends about "firsthand accounts" of Katrina evacuees and how they committed crimes, were mean to the people helping them, didn't use napkins, ate puppies, etc.

http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=15400

[rangerdog]

Pretty interesting column, and the topic is one that I never gave much thought to. Do blacks actually circulate some hoax emails only to other blacks and not let the rest of us in on the eye rolling fun? That means that the Hispanic community probably does the same thing, fueling their suspisions that we want to put them all on the big bus to Tijuana. My, oh my, we live in an interesting world, in interesting times...

[ParaDiddle]

Originally Posted by rangerdog

Pretty interesting column, and the topic is one that I never gave much thought to. Do blacks actually circulate some hoax emails only to other blacks and not let the rest of us in on the eye rolling fun? That means that the Hispanic community probably does the same thing, fueling their suspisions that we want to put them all on the big bus to Tijuana. My, oh my, we live in an interesting world, in interesting times...

Bolding mine.

You're correct we do live in an interesting world. . . and are part of some of the same internet communities.

[rangerdog]

Originally Posted by ParaDiddle

Bolding mine.

You're correct we do live in an interesting world. . . and are part of some of the same internet communities.

Touche, ParaDiddle. When read that way my question certainly does not come across as it was intended. I tried to reconstruct it, but failed. It was not my original intent to be non-inclusive or singular.

RangerDog