How not to plan your Black History Month event

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Funny satire about well-meaning college students. I’m sure a lot of us can relate to Caroline. :)

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Comments

  1. Aaminah wrote:

    ROFL! Too much! :)

  2. islandgirl550 wrote:

    This was hilarious! I know people exactly like this!! Can somebody say, ‘Professional Time Wasting’? There have been many times over the years where I have felt all alone in a crowded room just like Caroline.

  3. B(rown) Girl wrote:

    That brought back a memory of my undergrad days when a friend and I got all excited over a poster for an “African drumming circle” that invited everyone to participate. We showed up to find that we were the only brown (of any shade) people in the room.

    Real Africans or African-Americans need not apply. They’re scary!

    They did, however, have *drums* from Africa.

  4. red wrote:

    um, I think that’s Carol-lynn… ;-)

  5. dnA wrote:

    It’s hard to watch because it’s so true.

  6. el guante wrote:

    hahaha. that was so painfully on-point. great song at the end too.

  7. Colin wrote:

    Damn, she’s SO real, so, so, so…black!

  8. Aaminah wrote:

    Porque my ping from linking to this early this morning isn’t showing up? :)

  9. Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:

    Aaminah do you mean a trackback? Wordpress is a bit hit or miss with those. If you want, repost it within a comment and maybe that’ll work. :)

  10. Sheryl-Lynn wrote:

    Wow. I loved it! It hit the nail right on the head of how uncomfortable “liberal” america can be with race.

  11. Dan wrote:

    “Plus she was black.”

    Ha. Cringe-worthy. Good stuff.

  12. Black Strawberry wrote:

    hehehehehehehehehe In my history class my sub(who we call our teacher since our real hostory teacher was gone for about 4 months) he said that we were going to a project on Black history month and goes on how we should alway keep in mind on all races of Americans who helped create this country(I wasn’t too sure what he was saying) Keep in mind we were doing our math HW and then the bell rung, we were going to our next class and he was still talking! We were prett much ingoreing him. Yes rude teenagers

  13. montemar wrote:

    WOW, that was great!! Oh the memories …

  14. Herb wrote:

    Don’t forget the race specific menu to include catfish, sweetpotato pie, greens…like we had at work.

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