Markers and Stupidity...

I work with this ignorant woman. We can call her Marianne(because that is her name).

Marianne is technically the QC person but she is terrible at her job. Her responsibilities include checking orders after they are completed, various paperwork, printing shipping labels, and being a complete and total jackass mongoloid bigot. She is terrible at all of her jobs but the last one.

I have made Marianne cry a few times after arguments over politics and/or religion. She once told me that homosexuality is a choice and she has made many a racist comment. She also supported John McCain because she liked Sara Palin(that was her only reason either Pro-McCain or Anti-Obama).

My supervisor has asked me to refrain from engaging in serious conversations with her because they always end up with her being rude and me screaming and calling her a moron. I have taken my supervisors advice and try my hardest not to speak to her at all. She stills tries to talk to me. I walk away.

Anyway...

Marianne was preparing markers to ship out on an order the other day( busy work she is assigned so she shuts the hell up and leaves us alone) when she noticed something peculiar on a black marker.

On the side of the marker after the word BLACK there were two other words. I assume it is common knowledge that those two words are different languages for the word BLACK(or whatever other color marker you are holding). Marianne wasn't aware of this fact.

I don't know what the third word was, but the second one was NEGRO. This word sent Marianne into a tirade.
You see Marianne isn't aware of the pronunciation of the Spanish word Negro. She apparently never took Spanish to know that it is pronounced Nay-Gro.

Marianne thinks it is said NEE-Gro

This sent her on a rant about how it is childish that black people are offended by people saying Negro. Because(and i quote) "It's a real word, if its on a marker then its not offensive." and "I just don't get it. the marker is the color of their skin why should they be mad?"

That's right everyone...the Spanish word for BLACK is on a marker so black people shouldn't be offended by a word that was used to refer to black slaves.

If this is true then cracker has lost any negative connotation toward whites because you can buy crackers at the store. If those Keebler elves make them how can they be offensive?

And I don't know about anyone else but have you ever seen a person with skin the color of a sharpie? Sure, there are varying brown shades. Some of which are very dark( Manute Bol). But, can you honestly say you have seen a person with truly BLACK skin. I haven't.

I didn't argue with her. I didn't scream or call her a racist fuck-head. I pronounced the word correctly shook my head and walked away laughing at the stupidity.

I am amazed by this woman's ignorance and down right moronic tendencies every single day. I felt that this one display of bold faced stupidity was worth writing about...I hope you found it worth reading. I'm sure there will be many many more incidents to come...