Post by racegrrl714 on Aug 8, 2012 12:16:30 GMT -5
Honestly, I had never heard of Sikh before this week myself. However, I live in BFE Missouri, where if you are anything other than white, someone will give you the side-eye.
I'm sure it was an accident. After all, sometimes, when I try to say "Mitt Romney," it comes out like "Insensitive Turd."
LOL!
Also, today's volume of Yuppie Sob Stories is the Walt Jr. edition: the cafe overcooked my over easy eggs this morning. They were over medium, maybe borderline over hard.
I'd say about 50% of the radio and television reporters I've heard talking about this story have pronounced it like "sick" rather than "seek." So... I'm honestly not sure how familiar people are with sikhs.
"Sick" is actually the correct mispronunciation. Discussion of the religion in the news has prompted them to contact the media outlets and correct them.
It's not his fault if he had never heard the word Sikh before this week!
i call BS he's never heard Sikh before this week. I went to middle school in buttfuck western mass and there were kids in my class who were seek and their father's wore turbans.
I do too. Romney was living in Massachusetts in 2001. Immediately after it was discovered the 9/11 hijackers originated from Boston there was a panic where someone called the police station about a suspicious guy on the train from Boston to Providence. Well, the police, the FBI and God knows who else turned up to take these 'terrorists' off the train. He turned out to be a Sikh and his ceremonial dagger was confiscated (but later returned, I think) and he was charged with carrying a knife over the legal length.
I remember learning about Sikhs at that time, and hearing more about them in days to come as ignorant people retaliated against them for 9/11. If I remember that, I bet Mitt Romney who would have been running for governor (or planning to) also remembers it.
Of course, if Romney drank coffee, maybe this wouldn't happen. I'm not sure I could trust a president who doesn't drink coffee.
Nor me. Maybe he could win me back if he was the 'candidate I'd most like to have a beer with"...but yikes. He's a no show for that event too.
I guess this election will prove whether that bit of political wisdom is true or not.
Romney better pick up some identifiable vices pronto. He doesn't drink coffee, alcohol, smoke, or over eat. He better drop the f bomb in public soon, because Americans don't like goody two shoes.
Also, presbyterians have a habit of carrying longer than legal knife length on Scottish sunday. Our local officials would always have their Sgian Dubh tucked into their knee socks below their kilts. But, I'm sure that's ok, because it was the mayor (and every other elected official in a fairly large city), and it was mainline protestants.