I'm not white. If you've seen any of my pictures, you might know this. I'm a mixture of things... Black, Native American, White...all kinds of shit.. That's not the point of this.
I was married once. Not many people knew that either. I was married to a Finn. That's a woman from Finland. Typical Aryan Nordic goddess looks, square jawed, blond hair, blue eyed. When I went to visit her homeland I found the travels to be interesting and educational, but socially inept on the global scale. Maybe it's because they have practically no minorities there. I mean, if you want Chinese food, there's a few Chinese people there who own...Chinese restaurants. The blacks (African Finnish?!?! Being P.C. SUCKS!) they seem to import are either American military or recruited blacks from black countries to be ringers on the basketball team.
Anyway... The first thing I noticed about this little country of 5 million was that they had gambling legal ...everywhere. It was like Vegas,.but all over. The second thing I noticed was that they rated their supermarkets not in a star rating..as in 1, 2 3 or 4 stars, rather they rated them in K's. The K's were at times the actual names of the stores. Suffice it to say, I had a bit of a problem walking into a store called the KKK market with a big old KKK lit up in red. This didn't help the fourth thing. The 4th was when I was in a pseudo mini mall and saw a bunch of kids at the cafe who looked rather punk and militant. They, I found out later, were Neo-Nazi skinheads. Why the need for them in a country as white as snow save for a few pebbles and some yellow pee in it, I don't know.
Oh.. I didn't list a third? That's because I went slightly out of my chronological order. In Finland I've tasted THE worlds best chocolate. Not from Godiva (of Hershey acquisition), Belgium or France, but from the Fazer candy company from Finland. In the supermarkets, I was craving to find some to bring back to the States. In my travels I found this:
Now...I stared at my then wife and held the candy in my hand and ask pretty blatantly: "What the fuck is this and what kinda fucked up backwards ass country did you get me stuck in?!?!?!"
She replied that they were called "Neekeri Kisses" as she said it in her Fin accent. I asked;"What?". She then explained that to me whatever the fuck she said would translate to "NIGGERS KISSES". "That's what I thought you said" I replied. She said they never thought anything about the logo there. I can see why. A country full of 5 million white people and no niggas and they're gonna go paste a black faced Aunt Jemima on their candy for kids to eat. Un fuckin' believable. This has burned in my head for 10 years and now I finally have a place to share this bizarre story.
I found a few articles on the subject. One on the subject is a 2005 blog entry from an American who has spent 5 years in Finland. 2 years later he tells us more on the story. In between those posts, in 2006, a post from "the Latest" also finds that there was a small outcry from the tiny black community (I'm guessing this community fits in a minivan) and as the prior blogs showed us in the 2207 article, there may be changes afoot.
But I mean...Come oooooooooooooooooooonnn!!!! LOOK at this and tell me what you think of this image:
Posted by Darkstar at August 23, 2008 01:19 AM | TrackBack