Comments on: Webbed With Hate http://justorb.com/2009/05/16/webbed-with-hate/ A Tangential Autobiography Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Orb http://justorb.com/2009/05/16/webbed-with-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-15009 Orb Tue, 19 May 2009 14:20:10 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/05/16/webbed-with-hate/#comment-15009 Oh, it wasn't just a swastika here and there, this guy seriously had them and all manner of other white power symbols ALL over his body. So much black and red ink, his pasty white skin almost didn't show through. I mean COVERED. I've always known they were out there, but right in my grocery store? Run-of-the-mill racists are a dime a dozen in Texas, but they usually have the sense to completely keep it to themselves when in public (at least here in Austin). I can even overlook a swastika tattoo here and there without finding it shocking, though I do note the person and avoid them if I see them again. But a freaking portrait of Hitler on your back?! Really?! Blew my mind to see it, and the fact he was so unaware as to pull his shirt up to wipe his mouth (reason enough to avoid someone, didn't his momma teach him better?) and showed the damn thing in a company of, well, a wide variety of races not likely to agree that Hitler was a great man? Insanity or the biggest balls of them all. Who knows which. Race relations are so tense right now in Austin, due to another kid getting shot by the cops over on the East side of town, to walk around advertising your love of Hitler seems, at the least, to be begging for trouble, which is why I made haste to get out of the store. I did not want to be around should anyone decide to smack him in the head (or worse). Oh, it wasn’t just a swastika here and there, this guy seriously had them and all manner of other white power symbols ALL over his body. So much black and red ink, his pasty white skin almost didn’t show through. I mean COVERED.

I’ve always known they were out there, but right in my grocery store? Run-of-the-mill racists are a dime a dozen in Texas, but they usually have the sense to completely keep it to themselves when in public (at least here in Austin). I can even overlook a swastika tattoo here and there without finding it shocking, though I do note the person and avoid them if I see them again.

But a freaking portrait of Hitler on your back?! Really?! Blew my mind to see it, and the fact he was so unaware as to pull his shirt up to wipe his mouth (reason enough to avoid someone, didn’t his momma teach him better?) and showed the damn thing in a company of, well, a wide variety of races not likely to agree that Hitler was a great man? Insanity or the biggest balls of them all. Who knows which.

Race relations are so tense right now in Austin, due to another kid getting shot by the cops over on the East side of town, to walk around advertising your love of Hitler seems, at the least, to be begging for trouble, which is why I made haste to get out of the store. I did not want to be around should anyone decide to smack him in the head (or worse).

]]> By: Lori http://justorb.com/2009/05/16/webbed-with-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-15001 Lori Mon, 18 May 2009 20:48:37 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/05/16/webbed-with-hate/#comment-15001 I don't know what else to say other than "Holy Shit!" I mean, a small swastika here and there but a gigantic head of Hitler on your back? Not that a small swastika here and there is acceptable either...but jeez! And umm yeah...they're out there...back when I lived in Jersey, the town next to us was full of them...they all had their big trucks with their Nazi flags waving...and their big crosses hanging from their rear-view mirror. Don't understand how the two symbols could mix but whatever... ...The closest I've come to that here was when I was walking with my friend Umar, who is black, and a truck full of white guys passed by and screamed "White Power!" Ugh. :angry: I don’t know what else to say other than “Holy Shit!”
I mean, a small swastika here and there but a gigantic head of Hitler on your back? Not that a small swastika here and there is acceptable either…but jeez!

And umm yeah…they’re out there…back when I lived in Jersey, the town next to us was full of them…they all had their big trucks with their Nazi flags waving…and their big crosses hanging from their rear-view mirror. Don’t understand how the two symbols could mix but whatever…

…The closest I’ve come to that here was when I was walking with my friend Umar, who is black, and a truck full of white guys passed by and screamed “White Power!” Ugh. :angry:

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