If you use energy-saving light bulbs, refuse to shop at Wal-Mart and think you have done something important for Africa in your lifetime, then you’re probably annoyingly white.
By Sarah Kingsbury
It’s nice to eat with people whose lunch cost less than $5.
Poor people make the world go round, and seem to have a much better understanding of the human condition than people who regularly eat at places like Nature’s Own. They also give better advice and have a better sense of humor than non-poor folks, because the best humor, like blues music, is derived from suffering and indignity.
It is not a secret that the highest-income earners in Chico are white people. So let’s go ahead and stop trying to pretend I’m being racist. Everyone is racist. And every journalist is biased. If you do not agree with the previous two statements, you probably understand the world much differently than I do, and will find this column at least partially offensive.
Therefore, people who stick their nose up at taco trucks are probably exactly the kind of people who need to be eating at them. Hispanics are a huge part of our community, but it seems most white folks in this town have no interaction with people of another race and this is sad because most white people are annoyingly white. If you use energy-saving light bulbs, refuse to shop at Wal-Mart and think you have done something important for Africa in your lifetime, then you’re probably annoyingly white.
I have received e-mails warning me to stay away from taco trucks because they are “roach coaches.” I’m not even Hispanic and I find this offensive.