odd1out

Just My Luck
2002-03-27 23:06:41 (UTC)

Chapter one: Some Friend...

I sat back in my chair,holding the phone up to my ear,
feeling quezzy for a moment as I listened intently to
Kelsey explaining her run in with a mutual friend of ours,
Brad.
"He's a jerk! I swear he's clueless to the world and
how it works. I can't stand him anymore he's so narrow
minded!" Kelsey gushed. I couldn't believe it, good ol'
Brad? Has he changed that drastically? And why?
"What do you mean? What happened?" I managed to say
bitting my fingernails.
"He's racist!" She respomded, I could tell she was
disgusted at the thought of him being so. Wow, I nearly
feel back in my computer chair. That was really harsh and
Kelsey was closer to Brad than I was. My head was
swirling. I wanted to speak to Brad myself and find out
what this was all about.
"I'll call you back." I rushed her off the phone. I had
to figure out for myself what all this was about so, I
tried calling Brad but like always the line was busy.
Online junkie...
I finally sign on and see his name pop up on my buddy
list. My first reaction was to yell at him. I took a deep
breath and sorted my thoughts.
"Brad, why is Kelsey mad at you?" Safe question I
suppose. It's in the ball park of "are you racist?".
"She's mad?" Um, ok? How do I bounce back with a
question with an answer like that?
"She said you said something to piss her off..." I let
my sentence linger just in case he wanted to fill in the
blanks. He did, in a big way that made me want to jump
through the screen and punch him.
"I got jumped by these black guys and then one of them
tried to hook up with my girl." He informed me.
"I wanted to kill him cuz he hugged her and called her
beautiful." He added. At this point I was on the brim of
cursing him out but I kept in mind that wouldn't solve
anything.
"Were you mad at the fact that he was black or that he
hugged you girl?" Wisely put, if I may say so myself. I
knew Brad, my friend Brad would stay true to what I
believed he would say. After all he had been a good friend
of mine for awhile. Good friends don't do these kinds of
things. Kelsey surely had him all wrong.
"Both."
Silence...My jaw smacked my keyboard. Brad had just said
both. As in both. Wait a minute, was this happeneing? A
part of me just revolted at the thought that I had even
trusted this person. Watch out Brad cuz I am now fully
loaded with words that'll blow you out of the water. I
don't mean curse words I mean truth.
"How can you say that? Are you not aware that that was
a racist comment?"
"Show me a black person who isn't racist."
"Have room for billions of black people?" I shot back.
"Whatever."
"Ignorant people like you, don't deserve to share the
world with those of us who have common sense to acknowledge
when words, thoughts, or beliefs can affect the lives of
others. I really hope God can forgive you. You better
believe I can't." With that I washed my hands clean of this
so-called friend. Racism is no joke. I don't tolerate hate.




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