it's christmas morning and the parents are flipping through the channels, stopping on various parades and christmas carols. the tv stops briefly on an african american woman singing joy to the world.

mom: I can't stand how black people sing.

dad: they put too much soul in their voice.

mom: can't they get their own songs to sing?

if someone out there in the music industry could help me out, please invent some sort of black soul music.

hmmm...I realize this makes my parents look bad. it's not that they don't like black people, it's that they don't like anyone that's not white or chinese. it's nice how they've overcome racial boundaries so that they can dislike all the other races together.

someone help me. I don't think I can take much more of this.