All Maid Up 7

First I’ll copy pasta the highlights, so y’all have all the links without having to scroll down through my ranting and whining. The story thus far is: Ginger meets Kevin while working for his mother as a maid in episode one. In episode two Ginger learns of Kevin’s bad reputation and decides to confront him. She also decides that for the time being, they will be just friends. In episode three, Kevin tries to make good on his promise to be a real friend. He does this by taking Ginger to the pool, hoping to prove he isn’t ashamed to be seen with her. But this also marks Ginger’s official coming out. She meets Kevin’s sister Hannah, and one of Kevin’s cheerleader friends, Tonya. Then in episode four, Ginger molests a teddy bear and breaks her arm. But not at the same time. In episode five, Ginger’s best friends Aggie and Babs finally get wind of her coming out, and they demand a visit. (Or, Aggie demands a visit. Babs is almost always ambivalent.) In episode six, Ginger stumbled over something that Kevin had been hiding from her. When she didn’t flip out, Kevin still panicked and went into ultra-apology mode.

Now in episode seven, Ginger is attending her first day of high school. It’s a day so huge, it has to be split in half. And for the first half up to lunch Ginger, Aggie, and Babs are all learning that high school isn’t the same as junior high. But while everyone is acting friendly, the nerds are waiting for the other shoe to drop…

Without further ado, here is All Maid Up 7.

 

On a side note, if I keep writing at this rate, I should finish the whole series before the end of September. So, fingers crossed that I don’t get blocked before the end. =^) Oh, and When it’s over, I’ll check and see if folks are interested in me releasing an ebook version. At least one person on Twitter has said they’d like to have an ebook of the full story. They and one other reader have given high praise for the characters and dialogue, so I hope eventually to talk other readers into checking this out.

When the kids don’t matter…

Today’s first story looks at a case where black families were enticed into lead-poisoned homes so white people could study the effect of lead poisoning on their kids. The headline for the story says “racial bias” was found in the study. That is mighty white of the article writer, but racial bias would suggest that at least one white child was also poisoned. This is not the case, so the word the writer was looking for is racism, not racial bias.

But then, racially biased sounds nicer than racist, doesn’t it? Then the project planners can claim that they weren’t really racist, they were just color blind and not aware of their racial bias. “Huh, what do you know! I was SO color blind, I didn’t notice that ALL the applicants were blacks, or that our promotions targeted blacks!” Uh-huh, but it’s closer to the truth that some racist white motherfuckers decided that a few hundred lead-poisoned retarded black people was acceptable collateral damage in the name of science.

And, this is a lab study from the 1990s, approved by Johns Hopkins, not some eugenics study from the 50s. This happened in the heart of the “PC” era, with the approval of white people who did know better by that point. So there can be no “it was the times” defenses for this racism. The fact is, the people running the study consider blacks less human than white people, so it was okay to poison them. And as the article points out, there was NO PLAN to treat these kids or even inform them that the neural and mental disabilities they had were the result of lead poisoning.

If it came out that a bunch of white kids were intentionally poisoned for a study, the company would be out of business the next day. But because it’s black children who suffered, the outrage is decidedly muted.

Is the real problem that you run out of compassion before the end of the day? Do you get empathy fatigue and just can’t relate to other people? What is wrong with people that this story doesn’t flash around the internet like a woman insulting a white card gamer? Why can’t the poisoning of a few hundred black kids get the same reaction as a white dude who got insulted? (And who, I might add, handled his rejection in a far more classy way than all the asshole gamers, male and female, who decided to sling slut-shaming vulgarities in his defense.)

Every day, I can bring you proof of rising racism, sexism, bigotry, transphobia and homophobia. Every day, I could write up a flood of new posts with links showing you how far society is slipping. And every day, you can ignore me, because I’m just a mean angry tranny who keeps talking nonsense about civic duty and moral responsibility.

But what you won’t do is post links to stories showing how stuff is getting better with your help. All the news of social progress that I’ve shown you lately came from minorities fighting for themselves and making gains using the law and a lot of money donated from friends to mount a legal attack. We do not have much backup outside our own communities, nor do we have any vocal support from the left. Most liberal whites these days would rather bitch about first world shit like NetFlix splitting in two or something equally as unimportant.

And I end up looking like a bitch by reminding whites on the left that they’re losing and letting the right win on every civil rights issue by abstaining from the fight. But you know, I’d much rather look like a mean bitch than a lazy bitch.