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geoffm@u1.netgate.net (C. LaCanthe) wrote in message news:<aca66i$ek0@u1.netgate.net>...san jose, ca
newsgroups:<soc.culture.african.american><soc.culture.asian.american>
residence:<santa clara county, ca>

> What is it with black people and hooded garments, such as
> sweatshirts?  It seems like one time out of three that I
> see a black person in public, they're wearing a sweatshirt
> with the hood up.  The odd thing is, I see this even when
> it's not particularly cold or windy out; it's obviously 
> done for looks and image rather than for reasons of prac-
> ticality.

Maybe you should try it to hide some of your flubber, techie!  
In your situation, it would be done for looks, image and practicality.

 > I saw this same sort of thing back in the Eighties, when it
> was all the rage among black guys to wear woolen watch caps,
> and even weirder, ladies' nylon stockings, on their heads -- 
> even in the summertime when it was hot out.  It seems that if
> one of 'em does some weird-assed thing, they *all* have to do
> it.

You mean back in the 80's when you were still smooching off your 
parents in Oklahoma and contemplating becoming a techie?

 > How did this hood craze get started, though?  I remember
> seeing a fairly famous picture of Michael Jordan wearing
> a hooded sweatshirt; could that have been the trigger for
> this lemming-stampede, a desire to emulate a famous black
> sports figure?  What if Michael Jordan had been photo-
> graphed with his fly open and his dong out, spray-painted
> with Krylon silver lacquer; would all the other black guys
> suddenly start walking around with *their* silver-painted
> dinguses hanging out, too?  And how about if Michael Jordan
> jumped off a bridge?  I suppose they'd *all* have to jump off
> of bridges, too?

The hood craze got started for losers like you to hide their faces. 
Since you're one at Sun Microsystems, you may want to seriously
consider jumping off of the San Mateo Bridge, Oakland Bay Bridge, or
the Golden Gate Bridge.  Where else do you have so many options
within' close proximity?  Once you're consumed, the sharks can live
without food for decades!  As for African Americans emulating Michael
Jordan, you may want to consider emulating an engineer after spending
more than 10 years as a customer support techie at Sun!

 > Sometimes black culture seems more akin to Chinese culture
> than to mainstream American culture, because of this sort of
> lockstep conformity -- much like the way all Chinese people
> seem to feel that they have to drive a Toyota Camry with a
> little white stuffed toy dog inside the back window, and
> one of those weird-assed tasselled ornament things hanging
> from the rearview mirror.  

BTW, African Americans no longer use the term "black", very offensive
and equated to the term "techie"!  A great majority of Asians earn
higher wages than techies, hence, they drive Camrys, Beamers, Lexus,
etc., unlike Pintos, as yourself, negating the lockstep conformity
theory.  Asian tassells represent success, similar to tassells hung by
American teenagers on their rear view mirrors indicating graduation
from high school.  Didn't you receive one?  Oh, my apology.

 > America is the land of the individual, folks.  Try to get
> over this lemming bullshit, okay?  You all look as though 
> you're perpetually stuck in junior high.  I'm reminded of
> that period back in the Eighties when the movie Flashdance
> was popular, and every single twelve- and thirteen-year-old
> girl in America was walking around in an Esprit sweatshirt
> with the collar ripped out so that the garment could hang
> off of one shoulder.  (I bet their fathers were *really*
> pleased about shelling out for an expensive, name-brand
> garment, only to have it mutilated in that way.)

Well, doesn't being a techie after more than 10 years, equate to being
perpetually stuck in junior high?  That in itself, is proof that you
are truly living a life of individualism in America!  No other
life form, except yourself, has accomplished this feat, bravo!  As for
your statement regarding fathers shelling our more money for their
kids' mutilated garments, I don't find that a financial burden if
they're not a techie!  Flashdance, I don't recall that movie, but did
it motivate you to become a techie?

> And while I'm at it, what's up with that sunglasses-at-night
> (and sunglasses indoors) thing?  Do you have any *idea* how
> ridiculous that looks?
> Dare to be different, people.  It's the latest thing; all 
> the big kids are doing it.

Yeah, according to your co-workers at Sun Microsystems, you definitely
are different!  I totally agree with you, sunglasses at night does
look ridiculous, real stupid.  But after 10 plus years as a techie
with no promotion in sight, you may want to consider a pair!
 
>Geoff Miller continues to work at Sun Microsystems, San Jose, CA as a
tricky techie!


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