This is a cross-posting of a comment I left on peacebang.com's recent post about my school, Starr King School for the Ministry. PeaceBang, who is apparently a UU Minister in the Northeast, posted a few days ago an item about my school's supposed "banning" of the term, "brown bag lunch," because of the racialized connotations of brown bags.* Her post was, to my reading, haughty and dismissive, and she seemed awfully pleased with her own wit and ability to take cheap shots at others with little to no basis for her opinions. I think the comments for that post are up to 40, and it's a pretty lively back and forth. So, here is my contribution: "This may not be the ideal forum for “deep, serious conversation,” but one of the cornerstones of Educating to Counter Oppression is the importance of having deep, serious conversations wherever they happen. The status quo of “waiting for the right moment or forum” to engage with these issues too often leads to...
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(and sadly, I still have not figured out a catchy brand-name for that [hopefully] imaginary and disgustingly enticing [enticingly disgusting?] state-fair-bound product...Maizen-braten-shticken? The "Wurst" Corn You Ever Had? Baron Corny von Bratwurst's Sticky Surprise? Goethe Treats? I'm scraping bottom here...)
And yeah, I've got some hard-hitting birthday buddies: Phil Ochs, New Orleans music legend Professor Longhair, and three of the four starting defensive linemen of the Super Bowl Champion 1996 Green Bay Packers: Santana Dotson, Sean Jones, and Reggie White (RIP).