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^Those were pretty much my sentiments exactly.  I’ve come to the conclusion that taking apart every racially problematic thing a random celebrity does/says is not getting to the heart of the race issues in this country. It’s quite tempting to jump on every twitter trend regarding a quasi-famous person and their racial insensitivity (see: kerfluffle over ratio of lightskin/brownskin women in Wale videos), but there are bigger fish to fry. It’s easy to talk about the John Mayer’s penis’ preferences, though, and not so easy to talk about ways to eradicate institutionalized racism.

On a brighter note: Last night marks the first time my boyfriend got pulled over by the police here in Iowa, and given a ticket for running a yellow (not red at all, even the cop admitted this) light. This was after the cop slowed down and followed us for five blocks, acted like a jerk, then proceeded to ask us a host of none-of-his-damn-business questions (where are we from, when did we move here, when are we leaving, etc). So yeah, now I really feel like we’ve settled into the city.

Tags: John Mayer, Nil Doctrine, Racial Profiling