Atlanta blogs today: Is Drive-Invasion racist? September 04 2007

You see, it’s all about the Femme Troopers. And helping strangers with their cleavage.

-Shelbinator narrating his excellent short video documentary of Dragon*Con.

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Walking in the scorching Atlanta sun shouting “I’m Black, I’m Out and I’m Proud’‘! was life affirming and reminiscent of the civil rights movement, a different struggle, but a struggle I identify with nonetheless.

-Darian at Living Out Loud on marching during Black Gay Pride

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What I doubt she understands is that she is trapped in a classist dilemma. She’s a Little Five Points hipster, which means she has to be very carefully correct about tolerating diversity. However, she’s an educated child of the haute bourgeois culture of mid-town, , which means she has to hate everything about the DriveInvasion, which is working class, not-so-covertly racist and anti-intellectual to a fault.

-AnselPixel’s surprising take on Drive-Invasion