CALLING A SPADE A SPADE

[Cracker]

For me, most.

I am NOT PC in the third dimension. Tempered . . . but NOT PC.

Acerbic . . . but not deliberately cruel.

I call a spade a spade.

And that's a "No . . . asshole.", to those who thought that's a response I use to describe non-caucasians.

Fucking nigga lovers . . . get a life.

I am more direct online, less filtered. I'm a pretty honest person, though, so people always know where they stand with me IRL. I'm not pretentious.

I am very polite as I go about my day to day business. I dislike people who are loud or rude or vulgar in public.

Am I so racially biased IRL? I'm not sure. I live in a white neighborhood. Some of the people I love best are black and I work with several people of color. Half of the black folks I know are the coolest people you would ever want to meet, the other half have a "let's stick together and get away with what we can because we are black" thing going on. I think racism goes both ways. K, my buddy, can talk about how annoying her other black friends are to me, but she doesn't expect a lot of feedback. I'm sure I'm her white friend, not just her friend. She probably doesn't forward all the funny texts to me that she forwards to her other contacts, even though I would probably laugh.

I love kids in real life, but I don't hang out with kids online. Because that is just creepy.

Would you be able to tell you were talking to Cracker if you met me on the street? Not at first. I don't discuss politics or social issues much. You would have to know me professionally to figure out I'm not a complete dumbass. I might slip and be a smartass, but that would be your only clue.