Blogs Jan 18, 2012 at 12:46 pm

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You almost sounded human there for a second.
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This is much more interesting.
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@ 1, what's wrong? Is your tummy upset? Didn't get enough sleep? Fallen in love with someone who doesn't love you? Tell me all about it - you'll feel better.
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Here I am wondering how Slog trolls will twist this about to make this all Charles' fault, somehow.
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That was 20 years ago! Not that things have changed maybe but That was 20 years ago! I can see the grain on the film
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A Chinese-american girl I was on a date with got the same shit from an old Chinese lady. But in Cantonese. "What are you doing with that White Devil?"
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I dated a white female who lived in Wedgwood--the morning after I left her home, somebody threw a rock through her front window---In so-called liberal seattle.
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Charles,
Wow, that's one surreal and unfortunate moment. Must have stung anyway you cut it. I do think it is rare though. It happened in the Deep South and 20 years ago as well. Still, sorry to hear about it.
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As a person who has been roped into going to Myrtle Beach twice and regretted it both times (my fault I know), this story (racism and ugly people) is incredibly believable.
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A couple of years ago we were in that area of SC, at a restaurant. A bunch of good ole white boy golfers were getting drunk and talking loudly about "n----rs". SC is in a time warp, Confederate flags, all the trappings.
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As a black native South Carolinian, Charleston to be exact, this shit doesn't surprise me.

1. It was 1991. I got called nigger at the age for 12 in 1991 and that fucking redneck's ass got kicked by my friends and the teachers, who knew how much of a racist dumb hick he was, just turned their backs while he got his well deserved punishment. Even the administration hated him.

2. You were in Myrtle Beach which a lot of South Carolinians consider a fucking hell hole of a tourist trap. Plus outside M.B is full of nothing but dumb racist hicks. You wouldn't find me driving back to Charleston on the roads leading out of that area past 9 pm.

Charles, consider what you experienced in S.C in 1991 a cake walk compared to what you would've experienced in Georgia and other parts of the deep South during the early 90s. If you were to go back to South Carolina, especially where I'm from, you'd be very surprised by how many interracial couples there ranging from their teens to elderly couples.
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and to add to that, my cousin and his wife, have a large family full of adopted kids, two of which are a set of white brothers. So in 2012, you can be a black couple in Charleston, South Carolina and have two white kids in your family.
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Charles, I love your beautiful mind.
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Myrtle Beach is pretty much the worst place.

That has nothing to do with the fact that a crazy ex-girlfriend was from there. I mean, come on, we were young. You have to allow for a certain amount of crazy.

It's just a horrible shitty place, is all.
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Is this the same Myrtle Beach that permanent beltway gasbag Cokie Roberts declared to be the optimal vacation destination for "Real Americans" when Obama dared to hang in Hawaii?
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Nothing complicated about it; South Carolina is full of racists and you're kind of a jerk.
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Charles is sounding more funny/insightful and less crazy these days. I think it's cyclical. Maybe he has seasonal affective disorder and loses the desire to piss people off during the winter months.
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Charles I also love your beautiful mind. Thank you for this story. It speaks loudly and truly about complex reality. It is a piece of art, and science, and humanity.
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Great story, Charles.

My only memory of Myrtle Beach was zipping by on I-95 on the way to Miami for spring break (with a stop in Orlando to trip on acid at Disney World).
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I was once chatting with my boss at the time, who is also Jewish. I mentioned how convenient it was to be able to drop in on my parents on Saturday nights (when the dining halls are closed), and he said something like:
"Yeah, you can always eat dinner with them, unless you marry a shiksa or something."
That my girlfriend is a Gentile notwithstanding, that's just not something you usually hear out of your boss, even if you're engaged in some off-the-clock banter.

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