A little over a year ago, when I came to OU, I was not extremely happy to be here. We don't have to talk about why.
OU was not my school. It was where I went to school. The football team was over-worshiped, overrated, and most definitely not "my team." I could not understand speaking of football games in terms of what "we" had accomplished. "You were not out on the field playing!" I wanted to tell people that spoke like that. Kind of like when people talk about "us" winning or fighting wars. You are not in the army. You were not alive back then. Kind of like when people talk about slavery in terms of "us" and "them." You weren't alive back then. You are not and were not either a slaveowner or a slave. That's why I don't like the culture of apologizing and recompensing for generations-old wrongs.
But I've come a ways - in some ways - in a year. I like being at OU. And "we" definitely beat Texas today. That's one thing I'll take ownership of.
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Currently Reading:
- Natasha's Dance
- The Silmarillion
Have Read Recently:
- Being Consumed
- Boy
- The Narnian
- The Good Thief
- The Awakening
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- My Antonia
- Interpreter of Maladies
- The Seven Storey Mountain
- Of Mice and Men
- The Brothers K
- With God in Russia
- North and South
- Blood Meridian
- Persuasion
- Anne of Green Gables
- East of Eden
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- The Man Who Was Thursday
- The Moviegoer
4 comments:
I, too, am happy that "we" beat Texas today. Unfortunately, I am not so happy about the performance of our defense.
The missed tackles, the uncovered tight ends, Ryan Reynolds' confusion. It does not bode well for next week against a team that knows how to utilize their tight ends.
By the way, this is Dave Dambroso's friend Camron. We met once last year in my apartment and I saw the imported note on facebook.
Its tight ends, rather. Poor grammar, my mistake.
Sometimes I'll evens slip up and say "we", and that's even worse seeing as, you know, I don't even go to OU.
I will never forget the look on your face that first day when you heard "land of the free and home of the SOONERS!"
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