h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Don't call me white
Don't call me white

The connotations wearing my nerves thin
Could it be semantics generating the mess we're in?
I understand that language breeds stereotype
But what's the explanation for the malice, for the spite?
Don't call me white
Don't call me white

I wasn't brought here, I was born
Circumsized, categorized, allegiance sworn
Does this mean I have to take such shit
For being fairskinned? No!
I ain't a part of no conspiracy, I'm just you're average Joe
Don't call me white
Don't call me white

Represents everything I hate
The soap shoved in the mouth to cleanse the mind
The vast majority of sheep
A buttoned collar, starched and bleached
Constricting veins, the blood flow to the brain slows
They're so f*****g ordinary white
Don't call me white
Don't call me white


*NOFX - "Don't Call Me White" - Punk in Drublic - Epitaph Records - 1994

Whatever. In your heart you know what you are. Have a nice day.

An educated, open-minded, reasonable man, with a quick wit, an attractive build, and profound sexual prowess. But don't worry... if I forget, my beautiful wife will remind me.

Thank you. You have a nice day yourself.

I glad you didn't ask for a date, big guy. I wonder who loves you more, your wife or you?

My wife, gods bless her.

Yeah, whatever.

Actually, come to think of it, calling somebody white in the context is sort of being polite considering what you could call them and in many cases be perfectly justified.

You can justify whatever you want to, but it still doesn't make it right.

How would you know?

Because I have the common sense to see a universal truth. Hitler justified the action of exterminating the Jews, as did the people who actually carried it out. Were they right?

Why are you asking me?

It's what is known as a rhetorical question.

That's what I thought.