Alright, so I decided to leave buck futt Idaho and head over to Alaska for a couple of days (yes, I piss diamonds thank you for asking) with my father for a "business trip" (really I just think the man wanted to take me to Alaska to torment me with child hood memories a few months before my mission). Now while I was there I saw a lot of weird things (there are over 100 chinese buffets in Anchorage, but none of them open before 5 pm) in Alaska, but this took the cake.

First off, when I lived in Alaska six years ago (I continue to visit every Summer) there were three black families, two were mormon and went to my ward and the other family we were pretty sure was a myth. Not that I'm being racist by this statement I'm just saying that there were exactly three black families and about 11 black people in the Eagle River/Anchorage area. So now I come back six years ago and enter a mall (the northway mall, its an indoor outlet store) and realize I'm the racial minority in a white friggin state! Keep in mind I'm not racist, but when there's more black people in the Yukon than the white, I'm beginning to wonder if they know something about the lower forty eight getting bombed by terrorists I don't.

Back on topic: So first off I'm a minority, secondly I think I understand how racism really works. It doesn't matter what color someone is, if you aren't married to a minority and you are the majority you are going to naturally have a God complex so long as there are more of your colored people than there are of them. It really doesn't matter who can jump higher, run farther, do complex calculus in their head better, program the best robots, make the best technology, etc... at the end of the day racism for the majority is "heh, we're the majority," which the majority then acts on in their own way and for the minority its "oh shi- minority!" and acts in a way to stay alive. Nothing wrong with it, just humans.

Enough about racism though, that was not the issue or the main point of this.

Alright, so now I'm in a mall that is the rat-hole Mall of Alaska (not because black people are there XD) and I am wondering "WTF". Its not a bad place, I didn't feel threatened, but everything was off. There was a knife shop combined with a kimono dress shop that was selling the Aladdin special edition box set, a comic book store filled to the brim with comic books that were selling all for 2.50 a pop (any comic book they had, [even those super expensive ones I probably should have known about and bought so I could sell on ebay]), a store that was some weird hybrid between a thrift store, a community dumpster, and an appliance store (I seriously saw a Hannah Montana Binder next to a Doom 2 mod for Mac computers next to a worn bikini with a peculiar orange stain on one of the chest covers), and a store for the selling of marijuana (which is illegal in bulk in Alaska) and all its bi-products.

It was kind of an awkward experience, through it all I was able to acquire a pen knife that the sales man reassured me makes it through TSA screening because the blade looks like an ink pod in X-rays (God only knows how he knew that), DC comic focused around harleyquinn, two dreamcast games, and an illegal Doom 2 mod and still only spent 12$. Man I love Alaska.