I used to work in an early childhood center in the South Bronx. I chose that age because I figured their hands would be too small to hold a piece. But I soon found out that a shiv can be made out of melted crayon. [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Mon, 16 Apr 2007

I grew up barely middle class in a poor area so the kids would tease me: You think you’re better than us with your shoes and your running water and both eyes going in the same direction at the same time and your literacy. [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Mon, 16 Apr 2007

I am dating a white guy now, which is interesting because I finally get to sit in the front. [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
Category: Political
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Added: Mon, 16 Apr 2007

Hallmark Cards, creator of new holidays and GlaxosmithKline pharmaceuticals, inventor of new diseases have produced a new line of greeting cards and party accessories for Happy Restless Leg Syndrome Day. The inside message includes a brief greeting and a list of RLS symptoms to tell your doctor so he will prescribe GlaxosmithKline™s drug Requip and not some generic alternative or -gasp- a natural cure like physical exercise. [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Wed, 7 Feb 2007

When I taught public school in the South Bronx I made every moment a teachable moment.
One day I caught a young man smoking a huge blunt in the stairwell.

I said, "Excuse me, young man. Why are smoking here? There is a park directly across the street?"

He retorted, "Who the %*^* do you think you are talking to?"

I replied, "That's to whom do you think your are talking."

After all, I was the English teacher and I just wanted that fragile youth to be prepared. [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Tue, 6 Feb 2007

  Anorexia means fat profits for the fashion world. The fashion industry claims to be against eating disorders but with the crap they come out with, a weak confused shopper is definitely their best customer. [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Tue, 23 Jan 2007

  When paparazzi catch white celebrities in illegal activities the stories and glossy color photos end up in Star and People. You rarely see black people in those magazines because we have our own paparazzi; the police. They rarely use film when they shoot. [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Wed, 17 Jan 2007

Boarding school was a culture shock for me. The only black people I saw were wearing a name tag or cleaning a toilet. When I went home my mom was like, “Do I look like a maid to you?” And I was like, “Yeah, Carolyn, now pick up that J. Crew turtleneck.” [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Tue, 16 Jan 2007

Rich people are too lazy to break in their own clothing. At Barney’s I saw a pair of $300 designer jeans so frayed and threadbare that they looked as if they had been returned after someone wore them 2 or 300 times. I bet they paid a sweatshop worker an extra penny to wear them for a few days around the village to get that worn in look. “Look, this one has a bullet hole in it. How authentic. Is that blood? I’ll take it.” I wonder if my jeans look more expensive because they are falling apart at the seams.   [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Tue, 16 Jan 2007

I am from a small town in southern Maryland. Not much has changed in my town since slavery, except now my family is like totally unemployed.   [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Sun, 14 Jan 2007

I went to boarding school with the original white people. Their families were so rich that last time they worked was moving their belongings off the Mayflower.   [more]

Author: jacquetta szathmari
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Added: Sun, 14 Jan 2007